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I bought this album with unrealistically high expectations. I mean, Amazon has it bundled with Ghost Reveries by Opeth for gods sake, and all the other reviewers also compared it to that greatest of all black metal bands. So the CD shows up, I pop it in the computer, turn the volume to max, and start listening. The beginning of the first song captivated me right away with its semi-creepy symphonic stuff building up with a drum beat letting me know something insanely METAL is about to occur - and this is where the flop happens. All of the album's tracks have excellent intros that make it seemmore… like the rest of the song will blaze entirely new territory in the hallowed halls of metal history, but then every song goes sharply downhill after the first 30 to 45 seconds. They just plod along boringly and with no hint of the flavor shown at the start of the track. The songs are solid, and certainly tolerable, but I have a hard time listening to them now because they are such a let down after the almost perfect intros.

If Novembers Doom had just somehow continued to incorporate the themes of each intro throughout the entire track, and hadn't made each and every song repititve and boring after the first half minute - this honestly could have been one of the top 10 albums of all time (the intros are truly that great). The vocalist for November's Doom has a surprisingly clear and understandable death metal growl, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to have a very wide range, as it stays pretty consistently the exact same throughout the entire album. The clean vocals here vary between laughably silly and really good. Towards the beginning of the second track "Swallowed By The Moon", there is some clean talking, rather than actual melodic singing, and it's black metal cheese at it's worst, but the clean singing during the rest of the track is surprisingly good. All the acoustic parts of the album are good, with lots of variety. The only exception would be in the song "Through A Child's Eyes". While it is a great acoustic song on it's own, they definetely should have left out the background sounds of a baby gurgling or laughing or whatever, which seems completely out of place on an otherwise heavy album.

As far as the comparisons to Opeth go - No. Absolutely No. Maybe in a few albums when they've had time to refine their sound and the vocalist has expanded his range considerably, then yes, they could compare to Opeth. As it stands, Novembers Doom is decent, but nothing to burn a church over.

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Music > Albums

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CD

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Retail

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Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure (2005) Retail CD

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