Endless Detainment (studio album)
by Serpent Column
Serpent Column bestography
Endless Detainment is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by Serpent Column on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Serpent Column is Mirror In Darkness which is ranked number 19421 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 54.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Endless Detainment track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Endless Detainment rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  LedZep | Top 99 Music Albums of the 2020s | 12/99 | 11 |
| 2025 | LedZep | Metal - Holy Wars, Strongholds & The Thousand Lakes | 28/100 | - |
| 2025 | LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 6/100 | 5 |
| 2023 | OFarrio | Top 46 Music Albums of 2020 | 23/46 | 3 |
| 2022 | LosWochos | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 77/100 | 1 |
| 2021 |  awesomness425 | Top Albums of 2020 (101-200) | 2/58 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 20 | |||
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Endless Detainment ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/17/2024 00:40 | RockingRoll666 | 1,667 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2022 04:33 | rkess | 168 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/09/2022 15:32 | LosWochos | 46,624 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2022 22:03 | LedZep | 4,834 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2021 12:50 | dougcummings | 2,027 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.9.
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ForegroundNoise 12/21/2020 12:31 | #263018
Tighten the area to increase the pressure. This is the guiding principle to Serpent Column’s Endless Detainment. Its nine song tracklist is only one fewer than last year’s Mirror in Darkness, but here the total runtime is sliced in half. Not even the longest cut reaches the four minute mark; guitarist James Hamzey and drummer M. Holloway refuse to afford these snarling, muscular outbursts the luxury of outstaying their welcome.
Even as each writhing mass desperately vies to extend its short lifespan, these songs are hardly malformed afterthoughts. Following the assault of opener “Pantheoclasm”, “Violence Aesthete” integrates into its own rhythm the lurching death throes of its predecessor, before it buries them under relentless blast beats and tremolo-picked guitar no less moving than the most anguished atmospheric black metal. All that, in barely two minutes.
Calling this EP ‘not for the faint of heart’ is enough of an understatement it verges on being facetious. Like the most rewarding tough listens, this isn’t a beast to be tamed, it’s a majesty to be awed. Come to terms with your own insignificance and you’ll find you can’t look away.
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