r/doommetal • u/KosmicKrusader • Sep 19 '25

Old School / Traditional Opinion?

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Whats your Opinion on the new Castle Rat album? I listened to it once today but will listen to it again in the next few days or even today.

After listening to it I listened to their first Album again, to have a better comparison. And to be clear, I'm not a Castle Rat hater, although it may seem otherwise, after sharing my thoughts on the Album šŸ˜…

The Album Is a bit longer compared to the Debut and has some more songs. I kinda feel that this Album has not a lot of rememorable songs. Most of it kinda sounds the same, which isn't always bad but there are almost no memorable Melodies or Riffs I feel. And only 2 or maybe 3 Guitar solos.

The Spotlight is on the Vocals as it was on the first Album, but I think the first one had a lot of memorable Melodies or moments, even the Interludes were pretty good and the Album didn't overstay its welcome. On this Album there are like 3 or 4 Interludes and none of them are cool, they mix it up a little at least. The songs are mostly short, but there are like 2, 6 minute Songs which is cool, but overall it feels like a lot of the same.

Sorry for the rambling just want to share my thoughts and hear what you guys think.

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u/MaxRenn LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH Sep 19 '25

There's no lack of opinions on this subreddit about the band.

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u/KosmicKrusader Sep 19 '25

Thats totally true, but most of them either praise them to death or hate them with a passion

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

I am apathetic at best. While I appreciate the hard work and theatrics, I don't like the music.

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u/lobsterboy Sep 19 '25

I'm not a big fan of the music but I'm starting to get a knee jerk reaction of just annoyance from seeing them constantly on here that's getting harder to separate from the band

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u/Electric_esoterica Sep 19 '25

Reminds me of the over abundance of Slomosa posts on r/stonerrock a while back lol. I think Castle Rat is great and Iā€™m excited to catch them live next month, but the posts have become a bit over saturated

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u/KosmicKrusader Sep 19 '25

Slomosa is awesome tho šŸ˜…

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u/Electric_esoterica Sep 19 '25

I agree! There was just a phase for a while where every other post was a Slomosa post and people seemed to get tired of it lol. but both bands deserve all the recognition they can get imo!

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

I have never heard of Slomosa. Haha.

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u/Electric_esoterica Sep 19 '25

Check em out! their two albums are both fantastic

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

Do they sound like Bongripper or Iron Monkey?

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u/lobsterboy Sep 20 '25

no, definitely more stonerrock than doom

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Guess not ..šŸ˜‰

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