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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the German black metal band.
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- Record Label: Season of Mist
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Apr 20, 2015While not necessarily remarkable, The Dead of the World is a reliable slab of unspeakable evil, and bodes well for Ascension’s bright future in a grim subgenre.
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Apr 20, 2015Dead is a frustrating record, one that finds the band on the cusp of making something truly great. While consistency and better production do work in Ascension's favor, some of the spontaneity of the first record would have been rendered even more powerfully here.
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Apr 20, 2015The Dead of the World holds firm to the orthodox occult black metal machinations we’ve come to expect.
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Apr 20, 2015The Dead of the World, well, doesn't do much of anything. It's cold without being chilling; it's colorless without being dark.