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Wedding Photos
Pieti
Like all great albums, Wedding Photos transforms themes of deception into sacrifice, darkness into beatitude, and goes out the far side toward worship and family.
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Going Home
Latter Day Exploits
Do you feel like cranking up some doom metal for the next thirty-nine minutes? And you're aware that means only four songs? Latter Day Exploits' recent album, Going Home, runs that deep, and every song moves like a massive storm.
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Callenwood Wavefinder
tottomori
Callenwood Wavefinder is for reading with a warm cup of coffee or daydreaming about the first cool summer night. That may sound slight, but it isn't.
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Age of Steel
Khüll
Age of Steel is the kind of record that remembers fantasy can still feel genuinely grand. It takes the listener to towering citadels and steel raised beneath storm-dark skies. It’s not ironic and cynical like so many recent entries to the fantasy world. It’s epic. It’s fun.
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Shards of Narsil (Andúril)
Isengard Mysticism
Shards of Narsil (Andúril) is a reminder that the best dungeon synth engages with myth-making, and that there is serious work to evoke a world so fully that a listener can inhabit it.
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Enter the Woodland Realm
Eveale
At its best, black metal reminds listeners that the world is still alive with mystery. Enter the Woodland Realm understands this with its haunted forests and melodic power.