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Embalmer - 13 Faces Of Death
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| Honors these sick fuckers!!! \,,/ |
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"13 Faces Of Death" from EMBALMER (Ohio) is US-style death metal at its’ best
and i can safely recommend this album to anyone into
brutal death with (some little) grind influences.
Honors these sick fuckers!!! \,,/
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2 of 3 found this review helpful |
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Opeth - Watershed
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| Extreme prog at it's best |
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I don't know how to describe the album in just a few words.. Opeth surpassed my expectations on this one.. excellent balance between melody and aggression.."Heir Apparent" it's the heaviest track of their career!.. perfect combination of prog/death even some doomy touches.. The bonus track version of the album has some beautiful songs added, for the fans of "Damnation" album.. I cannot name a specific song I liked, I always listen to the whole album, fuckin' amazing.. best album of 2008 by far..
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6 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
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| Bloodbath |
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Waffen
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29 Oct 2008 |
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Where do you start with this?
You know those stupid pop compilation cds that come out every year? The ones that disco dj's use at kid's parties? Without drawing too close a comparison, this album is the equivalent of one of those.
Wait! don't get angry. What I mean is that if you had a death metal party there would probably be one cd with the most number of moshtastic songs on it guaranteed to get everyone into the mosh pit....and this is it.
I'm not sure how they did it, but there is about a million riffs on this cd, about 99% of them neck breaking and massive. Right down the order, even though it tails off a bit towards the end, this album has great song structures. The production is excellent. From Peter Tagtren's brutal vocals to Dan Swano's cheese ridden over the top plucking you can't go wrong.
There won't be many who dislike this album, and the floor of the party venue afterwards will almost certainly be littered with jelly, ice cream, crisps and half the fuckin' buffet when 'Eaten' is played.
Not a classic but a good album. With Swano. without Swano, everyone's got an opinion, but regardless of that a fan's favourite.
Score: 4.5/5
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6 of 6 found this review helpful |
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Pest [SWE] - In Total Contempt
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| In Total Contempt |
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Waffen
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29 Oct 2008 |
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This is Pest's best release to date. More consistent than 'Blashpemy is my Throne' and their EP 'Black Thorns.'
Its raw mid-paced Black Metal old skool style with stompy riffing and drumming although there are lots of fast sections too. Grumpy from start to finish expect no acoustics or nice bits. Just plain old nastyness and raspy guitars.
That usually means its boring but there is enough variation here to keep you interested. The singing grabs you straight away. Remember Darkthrone's Panzerfaust album? The vocals are reminiscent of that album: grim, raw, and agressive.
Its worth mentioning that the production is really decent too.
In Total Contempt is nothing new to black metal but it does what it does proficiently and is a good all round album. It is certainly a like it or hate it album and won't appeal to everyone's taste but that's good.
Score: 4/5
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35 of 35 found this review helpful |
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Devourment - Butcher The Weak
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| DEVOURMENT - Nothing for softies |
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"Butcher The Weak" is one of the BEST brutal death metal albums i've heard!!!
DEVOURMENT are fucking awesome, just so catchy, so heavy, so brutal, and just amazing.
I would go on forever if it wasent for my extreme lazyness. ITS AMAZING...
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9 of 11 found this review helpful |
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Disavowed - Perceptive Deception
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| Disavowed - Netherlands Finest |
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"Perceptive Deception" is one of the best death metal albums ever, imo... Point!
This album is wrapped with overwhelming metal, a lot of super-catchy riffs here and there and utter brutality all along. The music presented is really technical and multifaceted (in the brutal kind of way of course), each breakdown is even stronger than the previous one, the riffs are catchy but violent, the bass-lines add great atmosphere towards the sound and the drum-beats explore beyond blast-beats.
The tunes are carried on with dual vocals which, by the way, are really intense and explosive; the deeper vocals steal the spotlight this time though.
DISAVOWED are really fucking brutal, so i'm sure some people won't understand it, mostly metal purists who think metal music should feature keyboards or a cello damn it; but if you do like metal the way it should be made then grab this album instantly, you won't be disappointed believe me.
Best tracks: "Rhizome", "Condensed Conditions", "Generative Patterns", "Opposite Extremities"
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6 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal
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| Pyaemia - good old brutal death metal |
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Pyaemia is a fine example of good old brutal death metal and i think these guys belong to the sickest and heaviest death metal bands ever to emerge from the Netherlands.
The songs are mostly midpaced and groovy, for as far as you can speak of groovy, because the brutal heavy shit almost overshadows the groove.
This is the ultimate slaughter music. A must have for extreme death metal fans.
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9 of 10 found this review helpful |
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Deicide - Deicide
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| No way |
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Waffen
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4 Oct 2008 |
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I can't believe its been 18 years since this arrived in our cd players. 18 years!!!
Credited with introducing me to the darker side of music and steering me away from the comfort zone of thrash metal this is truly one of the all time classic death albums. From the very first time I heard it I was entranced. The severity, the speed, the evilness. It made me do things I wouldn't normally of done and got me into a whole load of trouble.
Blazing a trail of hate through the world of Christianity, what teenage kid would fail to be influenced by the lyrics and message of rebellion. Probably the most openly satanic album at that time, with more menace to it that Slayer, Hellhammer and venom and the wave of stuff before it.
All the songs are great but tail off a bit towards the end with the last 2 being under par compared to the rest. Dead by Dawn is obvioulsy my fave but they all have a place close to my heart even though I listen to them only once in a blue moon these days.
Its a shame that none of their subsequent releases have re-captured the spirit of this one. Regardless I think I speak for us all when I say thank you Deicide for a life changing and awesomely wicked piece of utter blasphemy.
4.5/5
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8 of 9 found this review helpful |
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Taake - Nekro
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| Nekrotic Festerings. |
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Waffen
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4 Oct 2008 |
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I can't fuckin' get over Taake. Personally they have single handedly restored black metal to its former glory and re-installed the old atmosphere of hatred and bleakness.
Anyway...Nekro. The first thing you notice, as with the other Taake E.Ps, is the differing sound of the guitars. Gone are the clean Maidenesque quitars of the albums and are replaced by heavy sounding ones with rasping quality like a hive of wasps stuck inside a sweaty cunt. the vocals are fucked-up and as the name suggests fuckin' Nekro all the way. Imagine an undead smack addict being pumped full of crack-cocaine and given a microphone. This is heroin black metal through and through.
Voldtekt starts off ok and is pretty normal BM until half way though when it launches into one of the most smakked-up druggy riffs I have ever heard. There are traces of punk in there but it is far too hardcore for that and summons the rest of the junkie undead from the Necropolis to gang-rape your sister up the arse.
Lamb is a quick little ditty that would be good used in Rodeo stadiums where the contestants ride electrified Bison!
Hennes Kalde Skamlepper really makes the EP. Its Taake applying their unusualy forulas from the albums into this wierd twilight zone of zombies and heroin. Like a bad dream it changes pace without warning and carries you away on waves of uncertainty. All the while Nekro vocals pummel you. There are about three different vocal tracks overlayed, at least that what it sounds like. Fucking berzerk. Then it slow for the middle section where all the undead stop slaughtering to shoot up again and then start tripping out. The last 5 minutes really is your sister being anally gang raped by the Nekro addicts. Samples too.
I wish this was out back in the early 90's when I did a lot of acid, would have been awesome to listen to tripping. Oh well.
In summary: This is fucking class. Fuckin' NEKRO.
5/5
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4 of 5 found this review helpful |
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