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“Amends” reviews

• Scream Magazine 6/6
  – “The mood is simply unique!”
• Heathen Harvest 5/5
  – “An extraordinarily beautiful, virtually flawless album of the sort that can only come from total unity and clarity of artistic vision”
  
• The Metal Crypt 5/5
  – “Powerful, emotional, and atmospheric, I’m calling this the Doom album to beat for 2013”
• Funeral Wedding 5/5
  – “An album that has all the requirements to be the best of the year”
• The Grim Tower 10/10
  – “An overwhelming bipolarity of soundscapes that not only highlight the dreariest of death metal, but also the most beautiful elements of post or even shoegaze in some respects”
• French Metal 19/20
  – “Certainly one of the best doom albums of the year”
• Magic Fire Music 19/20
  – “A composer, musician and performer of the highest level”
• Greek Rebels 9.5/10
  – “53 minutes of perfection!”
• JorZine 9.3/10
  – “Amends is blowing the ground of the doom metal scene with more inspiring music”
• Infernal Masquerade 91/100
  – “Unleashing another masterpiece of extreme melancholic proportions”
• Sputnik Music 4.5/5
  – “The Fall Of Every Season portray beauty with intensity in the best possible way”
• Groundcast 4.5/5
  – “Masterpiece”
• Metalglory 9/10
  – “Multi-instrumentalist Marius Strand made us wait long for another sign of life. However, the wait was definitely worth it”
• Versus Magazine 9/10
  – “Majestic and intense”
• Fobia Webzine 9/10
  – “Much more than ever expected”
• Bleeding4Metal 9/10
  – “Now one of my favourites within the field of melancholic doom/death, and Amends is already a strong contender for a high ranking among the best albums of 2013”
• Metal.it 9/10
  – “Amends is deep. Amends is pure emotion”
• Darkview 9/10
  – “Top class!”
• Queens of Steel 9/10
  – “A good continuation of the debut work, but even more emotional, passionate and honest”
• Ultima Music Blog 9/10
  – “This album speaks to me emotionally and dynamically, and I urge anybody to check it out at least once”
• Zware Metalen 90/100
  – “Packed with atmospheric melodic pieces”
• The Sludgelord N/A
  – “Music of this quality deserves to be widely heard. Creative music for creative people”
• Metal Storm N/A
  – “From its very start it’s apparent that Marius has made the wait well worth it, the result being a beautifully crafted musical journey that has everything its predecessor did and more”
• Imhotep 5/6
  – “It’s illuminating to hear a piece of music that has such a high quality at all levels”
• Nordische Musik 5/6
  – “Tender (progressive) doom sounds”
• Lords of Metal 88/100
  – “An amazing blend of heaviness and slumbering gloominess in every song”
• FFM-Rock N/A
  – “Timeless good music at a high level!”
• Tempelores Magazine N/A
  – “Already on the top of the list for the best doom cd of 2013, at least in my heart”
• Mortem Zine 8.5/10
  – “Everything here is elegant, natural and complete”
• Metal Factory 8.5/10
  – “A voluminous mix of melodic death and doom metal, spiced with a hefty pinch of progressive, which is surprising and therefore diverse and varied”
• Rock Tribune 85/100
• Angry Metal Guy 4/5
  – “The atmosphere, the instrument variation, and what’s more, the sheer beauty that this album serves in absolute torrents feels so rewarding and unique”
• Devilution 4/5
  – “A beautiful and well composed experience”
• XXL-Rock.com N/A
  – “This is great art”
• Paranoid Thoughts N/A
  – “Amends is a fantastic disc”
• Rock Hard 8/10
  – “Four long musical gems and a warm short acoustic interlude for all dreamers and romantics among musical weeping willows”
• Metalhead.it 8/10
  – “Never predictable, always amazing. Material that goes beyond mundane classifications like death or doom”
• Rock Hard Greece 8/10
  – “Highly recommended to fans of melodic doom/death and beyond”
• Obliveon 8/10
  – “Melancholic dream journey”
• Ave Noctum 8/10
  – “Long brooding songs which are able to transport your emotions to different places while you absorb their aural excellence”
• Trashocore 8/10
  – “Its beauty comes from its simplicity, its fine melodies and the musicality of its multi-instrumentalist progenitor”
• The Kvlt 8/10
  – “His debut album set the bar high for the future, and the second movement seems to be a natural continuation”
• Nocturne Magazine 8/10
  – “A great musical adventure for those who don’t like restrictions”
• Metal Sound 8/10
  – “Almost palpable emotion that is spewing from the speakers”
• Demonic Nights 8/10
  – “A doom project of great potential”
• Mega-Metal.de 8/10
  – “Very harmonious and pleasant soul massage for cold days”
• Legacy 12/15
  – Number 8 out of 57 releases in Legacy’s Soundcheck
• In Your Eyes Zine 7.8/10
  – “Amends is a work of high quality”
• Metalitalia.com 7.5/10
  – “In this time there is no shortage of doom-death metal albums, however, works so graceful and well executed are not encountered often”
• Church of Deviance 7+/10
  – “Nice work”

“From Below” reviews

• Legacy Magazine 15/15
  – “From Below is a genuinely grandiose album”
• Metal Norge 10/10
  – “It’s almost like words can poison or destroy the perfect soundscape”
• DigitalMetal.com N/A
  – “A one-man studio project that sends chills down my spine”
• EUTK 9.5/10
  – “An exceptional disk, a black jewel”
• Magic Fire Music 19/20
  – “From Below is my bedside disc, and risks remaining so for a long time”
• FireMetal 9.5/10
  – “A group with a lot of musical and interpretive talent”
• Schwermetall 12/13
  – “Oppressing tristesse on the highest level”
• The Metal Crypt 4.5/5
  – “Marius Strand proves himself a master of hollow, haunting melodies and crushing heaviness”
• Heavymetal.no 9/10
  – “Very honest, sincere and atmospheric release that puts Norwegian doom in the spotlight”
• Lords of Metal 90/100
  – “The caressing purification that eminent doom metal has to offer”
• Antithetik 9/10
  – “An avalanche of shivers and of melancholy”
• Pogoslam 9/10
  – “A personal, extremely rich universe in poignant melodies”
• Global Domination 9/10
  – “Hauntingly beautiful. Beautifully haunting.”
• Doom-metal.com N/A
  – “It’s indeed very good doom metal for relaxing or thoughtful moments”
• Feindesland.de 13/15
  – “Slow, deep, sad tone-art on a high level”
• Deadtide.com N/A
  – “If this is what comes out of him working solo we should look into putting him in solitary confinement”
  
• Bloodchamber.de 8.5/10
  – “Sorrow on very high level”
• Zwaremetalen 85/100
  – “Pure, honest music”
• Metal District 8.5/10
  – “Marius possesses talent and large potential. A debut that leaves a strong impression”
• Musiq.no 5/6
  – “Will fit right into every living room where music is not just entertainment, but also a state of mind”
• Eternal Terror 5/6
  – “Vulnerable and beautiful”
• RevolutionMusic.dk 5/6
  – “It’s heavy, great and exciting”
• Terrorizer 8/10
  – “Alternating the bleak and the beautiful with poise, From Below is a promising debut”
• Hard’N’Heavy 4/5
  – “Deep, contrasted and fascinating”
• Inferno Magazine 4/5
• Chronicles of Chaos 80/100
  – “A more than competent debut by an up-and-comer that all lovers of romance tinged death/doom should keep an eye on”
• Metalrage 80/100
  – “A fine piece of art”
• Metallus.it 8/10
  – “Excellent example of performance between doom metal and progressive tones”
• Walls of Fire 4/5
  – “Good album, rounded of by an impressive booklet”
• Friedhof Magazine 8/10
  – “Surpasses most of the doom/death-works of recent years”
• Benzoworld.com 80/100
  – “Get it without thinking twice”
• The Streets 8/10
  – “So phenomenal that a reviewer’s score is rather unimportant; this cd is highly recommended”
• Heavy-Metal.it 4/5
  – “A good debut from an artist to look out for in the future”
• Metal France 4/5
  – “From Below is an album of high quality”
• Empire of Death 80/100
  – “Extremely interesting debut”
• Metallized.it 8/10
  – “Dark and fascinating work”
• Heavymetal.hu 80/100
• Dagheisha.com N/A
  – “One of the better doom disks of the last years”
• Metallic-Zine N/A
  – “Convincing in nearly every respect”
• Metalfan.nl 79/100
  – “A melodic and delightfully atmospheric doom-opus”
• Hardsounds.it 78/100
  – “A disk to relish and to understand with the brain and heart, not just the ears”
• The Metal Observer 7.5/10
  – “Every fan of Doom Metal should thoroughly enjoy this piece of doom and gloom”
• Nocturnal Hall 7.5/10
  – “The Fall Of Every Season does almost everything correctly”
• Truemetal.it 74/100
  – “A sincere album, composed and played with passion by an artist with large capacity”
• Metalinside.it 7/10
  – “Pouring emotions into music, succeeding to create musical plots of intimicy and melancholy”
• Evilized Webzine 70/100
  – “A stratified piece of work, giving very beautiful hearing-impressions”
• Haternal 7/10
  – “Succeeds to put every element in its place”
• Imperiumi.net 7/10
• Rockline.it 7/10
  – “Already shows marks of good artistic maturity”
• Metalitalia.it 7/10
  – “A professional disc, treated with passion, that will delight those who love dreaming and melodic doom”
• Powermetal.de N/A
  – “A varied and progressive piece of doom-work”
• Metalspheres Fanzine N/A
  – “An organic and conclusive sounding first piece of work”
• Extreminal.com N/A
  – “Not even for a moment I thought to be bored by what I heard”
• Hellride Music N/A
  – “Professional in every sense of the word”

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