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Scar Sighted
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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the Jef Whitehead's black metal project as Leviathan was produced by Billy Anderson.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Sputnikmusic
    Dec 24, 2015
    82
    Brimming with the caustic darkness of his later material, the album feels wholly new while still featuring the same haggard nihilism that Wrest is known for.
  2. AllMusic
    Dec 24, 2015
    80
    The entire album pushes and pulls in such a manner, which is completely exhausting but ultimately cathartic.
  3. The Quietus
    Dec 24, 2015
    80
    Scar Sighted is still focused on conveying the noir duality found when the ugliness of atonality tries to devour moments of beautiful ill-quiet and creepy melody. This sonic ideology is perfectly produced and engineered by Billy Anderson (Pallbearer, Swans) who, along with Whitehead, captures the chaos in all of its multi-dimensional forms.
  4. Pitchfork
    Dec 24, 2015
    74
    As strange and surprising as anything Whitehead has ever made, these 10 songs bristle with an exploratory energy that has long been his best (if rather inconsistent) asset.

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  1. DJbustajuan
    Dec 7, 2017
    10
    One of the densest, greatest, experimental and infernal black metal albums of the decade, Leviathan is dynamic and innovative. A testimony ofOne of the densest, greatest, experimental and infernal black metal albums of the decade, Leviathan is dynamic and innovative. A testimony of brutality!… Expand
  2. WhiskeyStories
    Jul 3, 2017
    9
    Listening to Leviathan's Scar Sighted is like experiencing the descent into hell. It's dark, brooding, grim, dire nightmarish and hauntinglyListening to Leviathan's Scar Sighted is like experiencing the descent into hell. It's dark, brooding, grim, dire nightmarish and hauntingly ominous, however the melodies have this otherworldly ambiance. The one and only problem I had with this record is that the start of the record is just so amazing that by the middle it looses a bit of steam, but by the end it picks up again. The production is meticulously clean and the instrumentation is just beautifully full of despair. I loved this album immensely, it reminded me a bit of Giles Corey.… Expand

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