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Simone Appolloni

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2025's I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me contains defective mixing with extremely loud, distorted vocals (enough to bury every other instruments far below) or extremely loud lead guitar (during the solos), in addition to epic-oriented guitar/string/choir arrangements more suited to Blind Guardian, Septicflesh and Arcturus/Dimmu Borgir than anything else. For the rest, this is another hour-long replica of their previous Dark Funeral/Behemoth plagiarizing over and over, featuring the same hyper-blast drumming, Ambient/Post-Rock pads, jolly Blackgaze riffing derived from In Flames, Swallow the Sun and Sojourner ("In Darkness", where blast-beating is actually detrimental, "Glenwood", which has the exact same chord changes of "In Darkness" and "Unbreakable combined) and triton-based breakdowns over and over. All extreme spectacle and no substance.

Highlights: "War Machine".
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