{"id":89940,"date":"2019-02-14T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=89940"},"modified":"2019-02-14T02:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:55:54","slug":"reviewing-the-5-worst-rated-atmospheric-black-metal-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/reviewing-the-5-worst-rated-atmospheric-black-metal-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing The 5 Worst Rated Atmospheric Black Metal Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I made a mistake. Picking a genre so caked in controversy probably did not return the worst sounding music, for which my ears are grateful, but instead dropped on my lap some\u00a0wild things that have happened in metal recently. Unlike progressive metal, which (usually) takes some amount of instrumental proficiency to reach even the mildest notoriety, I had to put some restrictions on this one so the top five wasn\u2019t just a list of bands you have never heard of. So, without further ado, here are the five lowest-rated atmospheric black metal albums with over 100 ratings on rateyourmusic.com. I\u2019ll note some of the smaller fish at the end. <\/span><\/p>\n

#5 Velvet Cacoon: Dextronaut <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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RYM Rating: 2.86 | Ratings: 186<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you don\u2019t know the story about this band, it\u2019s a doozy<\/a>. The TL;DR version is that they basically lied about everything: their origin story, their instruments (seriously, a dieselharp?), their radical political activities, and their ritualistic live shows. Hell, they even straight up plagiarized an album. After disbanding, they claimed that the whole thing was a stunt to make a mockery of the scene, but they still left behind some original music in their wake, and so it must be judged. While listening to Dextronaut, I can\u2019t shake the image of two people in a basement cackling like madmen trying to come up with the lamest low-effort ideas they can while still appealing to underground black metal nerds. It\u2019s lo-fi, it has church bells, it has indecipherable Gollum growls, and it has repetitive atmospheric riffs. Every song seems to be made up of one singular idea and never really goes anywhere, but that sorta fits for this style, right? It\u2019s lazy and unimaginative, but if we are to believe their postmortem claim, that\u2019s kinda the point. What do we have to learn from all of this? You all are dorks for liking lame music because it\u2019s kvlt. Dextronaut<\/em> is not unlistenable, it even has some parts that reveal a tiny bit of artistry, but it\u2019s also not very interesting. There\u2019s also a second disc that is 70 minutes of ambient noise, I guess. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n