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May 30, 2014Heart-rending, arterial and woundingly authentic, As The Stars is a hell of a record to drop on Valentine's day.
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May 30, 2014As the Stars is an album that can be appreciated on a purely musical level and a meditative level.
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May 30, 2014As The Stars is an album for the wide black metal audience, because it shows how bands don’t always have to choose a side and then put up blinders to the world around them. Things can be integrated, but only insofar as the breadth of a band’s musical vision and their talent in transcribing that vision into their songwriting. Woods of Desolation are more than adept at both.
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May 30, 2014There have definitely been many bold and exciting extreme metal releases as of recent, but As The Stars is not just daring--it’s incredibly listenable, too.
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May 30, 2014It’s beautiful and devastating in that way that all the best albums are, and that in and of itself is worth some attention.