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FatherAlabaster
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They need slogans, like "Doody Baldrs" or "Ea, Lord Of The Naps".

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We've all heard albums so terrible we wanted to hurl midgets out the nearest window out of pure rage! These don't have to be albums you own either but they do have to be full albums, not just songs.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. I disagree, I've been listening to it and I like it more than maybe anything they've done since Cruelty. It's honest, original, and stripped of all of the pomp that hasn't been serving as a good mix with their songs since the aforementioned Cruelty.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. Odd, since they were only partially black metal for part of their existence. Even at their blackest (Vempire, Dusk, and Cruelty), they were still a black/gothic metal hybrid, prior to that they were death/gothic metal with a couple of black metal touches (The Principle of Evil Made Flesh and prior), and after they have been gothic metal with an odd splicing of modern death metal, melodeath/thrash, and the occasional black metal riff.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. I don't know if I can listen to DB anymore. They started out good but then got really boring. I got into them on Puritanical, and it hasn't stood the test of time. There are only a couple of good songs on it, the rest are just bland. They were and are trying to hard to be cool and failing miserably.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. Puritanical was where they really shed most of the black metal in their sound, opting for more of a melodic death/thrash style with some Norwegian symphonic black metal elements remaining, like blastbeats, keyboards, and the occasional riff. Their transformation was quite similar to Cradle of Filth's, with the exception that Dimmu were never a gothic metal band, and are probably more symphonically inclined overall. Their best albums for me will still be the first three. I can still listen to their other works, but my amount of pleasure I gain from listening to their albums after those diminished significantly with each subsequent release.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. I don't think there's any albums that I would like to unhear. If I listen to an album and don't like it, I don't hold a grudge against that band because I realize that others probably like it for one reason or another, and so I just move on.

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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear.

but by your own admission you are a poison fan so it would balance out for you no? of course being subjected to those bands endlessly would be my idea of hell but...
I am, I've never said otherwise. But one out of three doesn't mean I'd want to be there. I have to be in the right mood to listen to them to begin with.
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