Odem Arcarum: Outrageous Reverie Above The Erosion Of Barren Earth (4.5/5)

Joshua's Top Ten "Metal" Picks for 2010
#9 of 10



Year: 2010
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Osmose Productions
TRT: 65:12

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING COVER ART.

That and the tag "atmospheric.black.metal" immediately i was interested in hearing this. Goodness gravy this is a disturbing album, and they achieve that not with silly gimmicks or cheap tricks. They do this by creating one of the most sinister atmospheres of any album I've ever heard. Eerie and unsettling, you're transported to a dying world of terrible things, and abandoned there with no hope of survival. But if that doesn't make you want to listen...

LOOK AT THAT FUCKING COVER ART.

01 Gate
02 Oceans
03 Worlds Of Barren Land
04 Loss
05 Hell & Revelation
06 The Body & Perpetual Imagination
07 A Darker Kind of Dreaming

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An Autumn for Crippled Children: Lost (5/5)

Joshua's Top Ten "Metal" Picks for 2010
#3 of 10



Year: 2010
Genre: Depressive Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: A Sad Sadness Song
TRT: 50:20

Proportionally, this album is about as good as it's name is silly.

01 To Set Sails to the Ends of the Earth
02 Tragedy Bleeds All Over the Lost
03 A Dire Faith
04 In Moonlight Blood is Black
05 Ghost Light
06 An Autumn for Crippled Children
07 I Beg Thee Not to Spare me
08 Gaping Void of Silence
09 Never Shall Be Again

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