NOCTURNUS — Thresholds (review)

NOCTURNUS — Thresholds album cover Album · 1992 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
On their second album Nocturnus leaned even harder on the sci-fi aspects of their debut, dialling back the death metal Satanism but keeping the technical death metal virtuosity intact. With a clean production style and carefully judged keyboard work from Louis Panzer emphasising the spacey aesthetic, it might not have as gripping a concept as The Key but it's far from a major musical step backwards. As an evolution of Nocturnus' sound, it hints at the directions that the band might have gone in were it not for an extended hiatus and lineup fragmentation derailing them for much of the rest of the 1990s.
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Warthur wrote:
more than 2 years ago
On thinking about it if there's one thing I think the album's missing, in terms of being a followup to The Key, which is a strong unifying concept like The Key had. I still think it's a strong set of songs, but if there were a clear concept to it I think people would have accepted the shift in sound better as being appropriate to the particular idea being explored.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I enjoy it, but it is pretty different sounding to The Key.
Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
This album is awful! It had none of the charm of The Key, and songs like Aquatica are just stupid beyond belief.

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