Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Shelter from the Ash is another masterpiece.
  2. These eight songs may not be able to be covered by anybody else, but they are wonderfully constructed, beautifully textured, and exquisitely played.
  3. It’s bit of a risk for Chasny to polish his sound, but he’s succeeded in bottling the imaginative, audacious overflow of his past efforts into perhaps his most cohesive record yet.
  4. 80
    Shelter From The Ash displays some pretty wigged-out guitar work, but balanced by ruminative, minor-key acoustic moments that recall the mood of America's "Horse With No Name."
  5. The results are beautifully solemn.
  6. Mojo
    80
    Another impressive cocktail of Eastern-inflected drones, mantra-like vocals and thick slabs of empyrean noise guitar. [Dec 2007, p.100]
  7. Shelter bleeds enough drone and bliss to make a pretty smear of reality.
  8. Shelter from the Ash meshes the best elements of older Six Organs of Admittance albums with a new sense of cohesion.

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