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Iāll start: Filosofem is a good album that was unique at the time and undoubtedly proved to be pretty influential (and was unfortunately made by a pretty horrible person, but Iām not going to dig any deeper on that topic). A lot of people really meatride for the album claiming that itās one of the best black metal albums of all time. Iād probably give it like a 8/10 at best.
Sure, Dunkelheit is kind of a classic, Jesusā Tod is pretty much perfect, and the album as a whole pioneered black ambient. Thatās all worth commending.
However, did āRundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitatā have to be 25 fuckinā minutes? I get that itās an ambient track, but it could have been cut down significantly. Itās incredibly simplistic. There are almost no changes throughout the song. There is no climax. It legitimately gets boring before the first half is over.
What follows is another ambient track that is a lot better and a lot shorter. Itās still like 8 minutes, so you canāt just say I have āTikTok brainā and like short songs. I also like Swans, Portal, Earth, Sleep, and Sunn O))). When Swans or Electric Wizard do extremely long songs, thatās because thereās something in the song that warrants that much buildup. The problem is that a song that takes up almost half of the albumās runtime is boring as fuck. If that song was removed or shortened, I might be more inclined to see the hype.
The largest problem song aside, most other songs (like āErblicket Die Tochter Des Firmamentsā and the classic āDunkelheitā) on the album just ride on a single simple chord progression for like 8 minutes without changing it up at all. I know it sounds static-y and cool, but it gets old and it makes me not want to go back to it.
Overall, there are so many better black metal albums that I would much rather listen to.
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It can be ambient for 5-10 minutes rather than ambient for 20-25 . And tbh most ambient metal you can just loop over itself and never know the difference so why the crazy long songs