Satanic Monkey Threat
Like This Will Destroy You at their most heart-wrenchingly beautiful but juxtaposed with the utmost, rampantly intense black metal.
This. Band. Are. Amazing.
tiernan ^▿^
This album makes up why black is my favourite metal subgenre. The emotional depth of this band is incredible. 8/10
Favorite track: Managed Decline I (1st April 1988).
Phil Beaumont
If I could have given more I would have done this is such a gorgeous album thank you.
Favorite track: Managed Decline I (1st April 1988).
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I've finally got Black Line on physical copy and this record actually blew my mind. There's so much beauty to this album but also its so crushingly heavy and extreme in an audio sense, Respire don't hold back they just let everything go and beyond, amazing!! Darknight
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