YMMV / Cormorant

• Awesome Music: It is worth noting that the band does a LOT to incorporate different sounds into their music, and it is far from just slapping together different genres of metal together. With Dwellings having a lot more Post-Rock flair, Earth Diver going into a lot of folk-inspired riffs, and just LISTEN to the bridge of "Scavengers Feast" or the ending to "Uneasy Lies the Head".
• Ending Fatigue: The band usually averts this in their longer songs, but the last four minutes of "A Sovereign Act" drone on.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Some fan's reactions to Earth Diver being more or less a continuation of Dwellings, and focusing less on expanding their sound and influences like they had with past albums.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • The child narrator in "A Howling Dust". The beginning presents him being morbid and racist towards the immigrants, which is not helped by his father's drug-taking and is the one who sets the story in motion by mocking and assaulting a Chinese man along with his friends. By the end of the song he is completely broken after witnessing the grisly death of the Chinese man, refusing to leave the dying town and only hopes that someone would be there to bury him. It's hard not to feel sorry for him.
  • We aren't meant to sympathize with the character in "Uneasy Lies the Head" by any stretch of the imagination, but his horrible Cruel and Unusual Death earns him a few sympathy points, even if it's well-deserved.
• Nightmare Fuel: Aside from some of their more grotesque and horrific lyrics, the music itself sometimes invoke (or complement) this. Particularly the ends of "Two Brothers" with von Nagel's screaming and the heavily layered and distorted guitars, choral singing and string accompaniment in the last few minutes of the song "Hanging Gardens" sounding like something straight out of Hell.
• Signature Song: "Junta", although "Scavengers Feast" does not fall that far behind.
• Squick: "Scavenger's Feast" features plenty.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Voices of the Mountain", notch. Such a relaxing guitar duet.
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page.
• The Woobie: Quite a number of them. Particularly in "Rain Follows the Plow", "Junta", "Hanging Gardens" and "Unearthly Dreamings".