{"id":1143,"date":"2013-01-16T03:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2013-01-16T03:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:56:35","slug":"is-varjoina-kuljemme-kuolleiden-maassa-the-best-album-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1143","title":{"rendered":"Is Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa The Best Album In A Decade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Moonsorrow-2011-333x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Moonsorrow-2011-333x500-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Moonsorrow-2011-333x500\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Moonsorrow-2011-333x500-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Moonsorrow-2011-333x500.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s not a dramatic header there.  I&#8217;m serious.  The more I listen; the better it gets.  <b>Moonsorrow&#8217;s<\/b> masterpiece is a perfect album.  OK, the three 90-second interludes are useless, but they bridge the awesomeness in a<br \/>\nnecessary way.  The four remaining 13-minute-average epics are possible the best four songs in years.  The<br \/>\ncomplete tale from beginning to end is a vast journey, perfectly completing a cycle of metallic excellence.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny.  Barring the hypnotic acoustic intro of <b>Huuto<\/b>, I can&#8217;t hum to you any one specific riff, memorable interlude or catchy progression.  The songs go one for so long; what makes them so good?  <\/p>\n<p><b>Moonsorrow&#8217;s<\/b> powerful blend of keyboards, sheer heaviness and crushing vocals lead from one tune to the next, not faltering, not offering a throwaway segment.  As a musical fanatic, I memorize band member names, song titles, years, everything but lyrics.  On <b>Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa<\/b> I know none of it.  Even as a linguist who revels in etymology, language change and meaning &#8211; I don&#8217;t care.  I just want to turn this up and play it again.  <\/p>\n<p>This album is just about everything I love about metal.  I almost have nothing to write about it &#8211; but yet it&#8217;s the greatest shit in the world.  It very well could be the best album of this millennium.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not a dramatic header there. I&#8217;m serious. The more I listen; the better it gets. Moonsorrow&#8217;s masterpiece is a perfect album. OK, the three 90-second interludes are useless, but they bridge the awesomeness in a necessary way. The four remaining 13-minute-average epics are possible the best four songs in years. The complete tale from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-music","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}