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- Record Label: Fontana/Universal
- Release Date: Feb 14, 2012
- Summary: The Finnish doom/death metal band's fifth full-length is a concept album about a father burying his child.
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- Record Label: Fontana/Universal
- Genre(s): Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal
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Sep 5, 2012Emerald Forest and the Blackbird is far and away Swallow the Sun's most theatrical release.
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Sep 5, 2012Like all of the best Swallow the Sun songs past, these are invariably lush, powerful, cathartic musical statements; rich in texture, multiple emotions, and even nuance, but we'd be lying to call them revolutionary, or even seriously evolutionary.
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Kerrang!Sep 5, 2012It's a good album, but one undone by its more extreme moments. [25 Feb 2012, p.52]
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Sep 5, 2012The thing about Emerald Forest and the Blackbird, though, is that it has no logical direction and no cohesive force, despite its strong and intriguing concept.
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