Comments on: The Wandering Ascetic – Crimson Review https://yourlastrites.com/2019/01/24/the-wandering-ascetic-crimson-review/ Generally Impressed With Riffs Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deadhttps://yourlastrites.com/2019/01/24/the-wandering-ascetic-crimson-review/#comment-1699 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:09:36 +0000 https://yourlastrites.com/?p=24385#comment-1699 Thanks for the writeup. You can really hear the Rudra, but it’s a different enough angle. I’m interested to get ahold of the full album.

I was worried, after the Rotting Christ comparison, that this would end up being a slog. I seem to be in the minority among the metal community on this, but I find Rotting Christ to be the most boring band in the world. There are worse things than being boring, like being Finnish. But I can’t see the reason that people hold the band in such high regard. As a matter of purely historical importance, other groups were doing similar experiments in the 90s. Therion and Edge of Sanity – to mention just two – were dabbling in the symphonic realms of extreme metal before Rotting Christ ever put together a full-length release. But I digress…

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