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Weighing Souls With Sand

The Angelic Process

2007

Weighing Souls With Sand
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Weighing Souls with Sand is the second studio album by the Angelic Process. The Angelic Process is a music project started by Kris Angylus in Athens, Georgia in 1999, specializing in shoegaze and doom metal music. Angylus's wife, Monica Dragynfly, joined him in 2005. According to Angylus, two of his albums, Coma Waering (2002) and Weighing Souls with Sand, were directly influenced by his experiences; his first girlfriend died in a car accident in 2000, as reflected in Coma Waering, and Weighing Souls with Sand reflects Angylus's grief and suicidal ideation following his girlfriend's death. Weighing Souls with Sand was recorded in Metanoia Studios from February–October 2006 and mastered by Black Ark Mastering. It has been described as drone metal, ambient, and shoegaze, heavily influenced by My Bloody Valentine.

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2.51

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100

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Mar 13 2025
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4

I can see why people would dislike this LP, but to me it exemplifies the raw, terrifying power that music can wield. Maximal shoegaze instrumentation, wall-to-wall production that leaves nowhere to hide, and a dark touch of melodicism yield an album that evokes what it would be like to live within an all-encompassing sonic tornado. Though the tracks here feel slightly disconnected from one another and EP-like rather than a full album, the experience was still absolutely insane from one end of the hour to the other. Wish the list had more daring picks like this one – this has been one of my favorite finds so far.

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Mar 14 2025
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Is this gonna be more modern post rock? ffs. Yep. Boooooooooooooring. It thinks so highly of itself (look at that title), but it's just.... nothing. Minimalist crap for pretentious dickheads. Fuck you. 1/5.

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Mar 12 2025
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5

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: We all die laughing, Dying in A-minor, The resonance of goodbye

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Mar 15 2025
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5

I wasn't expecting someone to submit this album, but I'm really glad they did. This is a fantastic album with a truly tragic story. This album feels like sinking in quicksand.

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Mar 31 2025
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4

Most bands that say they're influenced by My Bloody Valentine are boring (exception- Mogwai). Where this crosses it with doomy, droney metal, it's anything but. Like a bleak warm bath.

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Apr 28 2025
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4

Ambient dark metal with touches of industrial, shoegaze and post-rock. Long instrumental tracks with clear melodic vocals at times. A quite sinister background story explains Kris Angylus' intents here. Very cinematic, with a few heartrending harmonies bobbing out from those desperate abysses in some of its most pivotal moments. Like a mix of Jesu, My Bloody Valentine, The History Of Colour TV, Mondkopf and The Haxan Cloak, tainted with more metal-adjacent references I would be hard-pressed to pinpoint. The mix is murky, but in that overall genre, such technical "flaws" actually add to the despondent mood. Pretty sure this album can't make it to my list of keepers from 2007, but it's still worth listening to for anyone interested in that sort of despondent-yet-extremely-evocative music style. Metal can still be open-minded without sounding like a cheesefest farce, and thus come off as personal and intense instead. Looks like I'm still unable to swallow that stupid Nightwish album added to the users list, that I had to deal with the other day, ha ha. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5) Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 13 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 20 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 37

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Mar 15 2025
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3

Interesting wall of noise somewhere between shoegaze and industrial. Several good songs, some are a bit too long and interchangeable.

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Mar 20 2025
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2

I was definitely judging a book by its cover on this one (weird cringe emo stuff) and ended up being somewhat correct (ambient emo noise rock). Honestly I got excited when I saw that it was inspired by mbv but I hear more sad ambient noise than anything overtly shoegaze. Bet this goes hard at satanic heroin raves tho.

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Apr 04 2025
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5

My missus said "this is enough to give you a brain hemorrhage, it's Shite!" For that reason alone it gets 5/5 from me. Seriously, I'm interested in this Drone Metal genre- very atmospheric and brooding.

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Mar 17 2025
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4

Heavy cinematic orchestral metal. A great time!

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Apr 02 2025
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4

This album really falls into a sweet spot for me. The combination of metal and shoegaze definitely scratches an itch in my brain. I could see how lots of folks would not care for this album since it's so noisy, but I thought it was really well executed overall, though I think the production could have been a little cleaner in places 4/5

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Apr 22 2025
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4

I saw this and thought "oh god ambient drone metal shoegaze... sounds exhausting". Fuck this hit me in the right spot. I love shoegaze and normally am not a big metal person, but this worked. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

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May 04 2025
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4

This is like a musical weighted blanket. Strangely comforting, insanely heavy soundscapes. The MBV and Boris influences are very clear. Wish the album sequencing was a bit better done. Like another reviewer mentioned, this really does feel like a collection of disconnected songs rather than a full album. Still love it though. 4/5.

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Mar 13 2025
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3

Intense, nuanced, dirgeful sound. Not for every day, but I thought this was quite good. It's a bit challenging on the ears, but contrasting quieter moments with the heavier walls of sound keeps the whole thing from getting too overwhelming. Fave Songs: Dying in A-minor, Mouvement - World Deafening Eclipse, The Promise of Snakes

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Mar 17 2025
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3

You can hear the tornment on each and every note. Quite a sad life-story of these artists. Musicaly wasn't really my kind of thing. But it was listenable

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Mar 18 2025
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3

Sure, compress the everloving f-k out of everything and you definitely end up with a sound... It sort of turns all sounds into percussion or at best a minimally tuneful ambient wash. Lyrics are incomprehensible, whichis a shame as it seems.like he had something to say. For all these gripes there is something there, but the methodology here nearly wipes it out.

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Mar 17 2025
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2

Drone metal, ambient, shoegaze. Un tostón. No me ha gustado. Un 2.

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Mar 18 2025
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2

Weighing Souls With Sand has some real potential at the start of this album, it explodes into your ears with a raw, deafening angst-ridden sound full of emotion, but then it just does all of that for an hour with hardly any notable differences from song to song. It gets tired very quickly, which is disappointing, and only warrants a 2. I could listen to any one of these songs and not be able to tell you what it's called or what the point of it was, but I'd still probably enjoy most of that track for what it is.

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Mar 19 2025
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2

The Wikipedia article says this album was in the style of doom metal and that couldn’t have been more accurate in description. This felt very ominous like I was about to be struck down. It wasn’t really that great either. It was a dark lurking album that was unique instrumentally but felt a bit one dimensional. 4.2/10

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Mar 22 2025
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I didn’t think I would remember this album as I listened to it 5 days ago. And then I did remember and I wish I hadn’t. It was noise.

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Mar 28 2025
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2

I like experimental noise. This was a 1 track trick

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Mar 30 2025
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i had no idea this was its own genre of ambient doom metal or whatever... it's not for me. I think i need a bit less ambient.

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May 01 2025
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Pretty cool in places, outrageously ponderous in places. The names of the songs and the album art are so brutals they edge into entertaining; I kind of love them, tbh, but I can't say this album provides what I usually look for in a music listening experience. I don't hate it but I don't need it, either.

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Mar 14 2025
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1

Would rather fill my ass with soul sand than listen to this again

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Mar 17 2025
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I’m pretty sure this broke my AirPods

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Mar 18 2025
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I felt it was closer to noise than music. Terrible acoustic filth. A sort of dull, hypnotic melody that leads nowhere.

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Mar 20 2025
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This was definitely different… too different for me to enjoy at all. But quite emotional! Just painful which maybe is the point but I can’t do it.

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Apr 14 2025
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My least favourite of the user-submitted albums so far. I don’t want to be too harsh as the album deals with a quite heavy subject matter and clearly means a lot to quite a few people based on some of the reviews. It’s great that it has provided that catharsis, and the best thing about music is that different music can resonate with different people in completely different ways. That being said I just did not vibe with this. Everything was so reverbed and distorted that it was unintelligible, and the few bits of clean vocals that cut through sounded really rough. On top of that it was all just quite boring as well. There wasn’t really any song structure or development - each track just relied on these thick shoegazy textures, and the textures sounded bad

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Apr 28 2025
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Oh wow. This is a strong contender for the worst possible type of music - shoegaze and doom metal. Probably the only the thing that could be any worse might be "Bob Dylan does shoegaze" or maybe 'Merle Haggard does shoegaze, with backing by the Manic Street Preachers". Oh ffs, it's over an hour long, too. Yeah, I have given this a try. I got about a fortnight into it before realising that it was never going to win me over. Euch.

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