- Record Label: Superball Music
- Release Date: Feb 8, 2011
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UncutApr 12, 2011Despite the epic pretensions of the 16-miniute finale, "Tao Of The Dead Part Two,", sadly, this sort of tribute to rock's historical hinterlands yields fewer surprises each time. [May 2011, p.77]
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MojoApr 6, 2011Album seven hits a sweet spot between prog and power-chords. [March 2011, p. 108]
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Mar 23, 2011Tao of the Dead makes me, by turns, want to improve my attention span and want to listen to something else.
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Mar 14, 2011Their decision to fuse the songs with a series of spaced-out instrumental passages is indulgent, to be sure, but the album's breathless, genre-spanning ambition makes it easy to forgive.
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Feb 14, 2011Mixed so its songs blend together, Tao is such a cohesive record that when the second track, Pure Radio Cosplay, is reprised midway through, it seems like the end of an intense musical detour rather than a simple replaying of the song.
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Feb 15, 2011It sounds reaching, like the band is lost and looking desperately for an audience and a voice. I hope they start looking somewhere else.
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Mar 14, 2011While bombastic and ambitious as ever, Tao suggests that Trail of Dead have once again lost the taste for subtlety and texture that's past served to elevate their sound from the prog pack.
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Feb 3, 2011I can't imagine why anyone would want to hear another half-hour of this crap, but if you've got brain cells to spare after Tao of the Dead's wonky, caterwauling sendoff, then by all means, put on your +2 Boots of Moshing and get to it!
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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