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Decapitated - Blood Mantra
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| Still strong! |
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We're just going to have to grin and bare it here - the New Decapitated is nothing like the Decapitated of yore. But is that really a bad thing? There are many parts of Blood Mantra that do not have the technicality that Nihility has, such as the groove riffs and drum patterns, but it somehow manages to bring a strong sense of doom. Feeling of being haunted, eeriely reminiscent to the track "Silence" from Carnival is Forever. Perhaps that's what Vogg had in mind. If not, it certainly makes for a great mood for the album.
But that's not to say that the technical badassery is not completely gone. The Blasphemous Psalm to the Dummy God Creation hits like an atom bomb, the title track Blood Mantra reminds me of Organic Hallucinosis, and the brutal riff in the middle of Nest.
And that's why I like Blood Mantra. Both of these elements culminate together and bring out this fierce new form of Decapitated, to show not only their persistence, but also their musical talent. And damn, they've still got it.
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2 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
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| Not sure if Ihsahn is drained for creativity or bursting with it. |
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For me this was a rather big disappointment. Having enjoyed a through Saxing for most of the previous albums and liking the different take on Metal that Ihsahn offered I was ready for a great Progressive album. Sadly I think this will go down as Das Seldom-nicht-listen. I haven't listened to this album but three or four times and that was spread across a several months so it turns out to be rather forgettable in the fine details and overall it mostly doesn't flow like an album should. There are two parts to this album, some popish sounding songs that actually sound like songs and then random musical disconnect. The first few songs are mildly listen-able but are just too much along the lines of post rock/pop metal. I think the use of auto-tune and glam rock guitars really shows the failure that this album turned into.
The other part of this album makes me question if Ihsahn is running out of creative steam. There are a couple songs on this album that are just noise and seem to be void of musical structure. Tacit and Tacit 2 are nothing but ~5 minutes of drum wankery and is just a tsunami of fills and random beating and bashing of the drums. The rest of the songs are unmemorable and lame excuses for music.
Everything before Tacit 2 is about a 3 as it goes for Prog Rock. Everything else is trash to be throw to the side and forgotten. I am not much of an elitist but this isn't really metal in my book. I give this a 2/5 because I think Ihsahn is zapped of his creativity or is like Burzum and wanting to move away from Metal and play another genre but not really wanting to commit.
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0 of 12 found this review helpful |
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Betrayer Of Light - Betrayer Of Light
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| Danish Black metal with a symphonic twist |
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mbn
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5 Sep 2014 |
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This is just great listening... So happy i tried to click it..
try to visit their facebook site, loads of photos and some videos and soundfiles.. great Danes
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0 of 10 found this review helpful |
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Pungent Stench - Ampeauty
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| Ampeauty (Amputation + Beauty) |
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After that soft downfall with the album related to cruel religion, they came back with a not really boring album, I would say that this as awesome as the other ones, except that one before this is a bit monotone, the concept and the costumes are cool, but the album is not too much! Anyway, welcome back Schirenc and this Ampeauty (Amputation + Beauty) album is well received, creative death metal with a very nice booklet!
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3 of 3 found this review helpful |
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Inanimate Existence - Never-Ending Cycle Of Atonement, A
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| Exploring and expanding brutal tech boundaries |
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"A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement" is a good and solid brutal tech album...well , usually I would say "if it's not your cup of tea..." this time we might share this good in-fusion together instead .
They definitively learned the lesson from master Necrophagist , who doesn't...adding some nice modern progressive, female vocals (only a few seconds...enough indeed) , harp and other "unusual" instruments...in other words exploring and expanding the genre boundaries on the prog side .
Unquestionable tech proficiency and will to evolve are the trademarks of this album , witch , in my opinion , have to be rewarded so , you brutal tech fan and tea friends , if in a progressive mood , go ahead and buy this album as I did...if you have some spare money , double the californian pleasure with "The Flesh Prevails".
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4 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Omnihility - Deathscapes Of The Subconscious
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| IT SMELLS LIKE PURE DEATH METAL |
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This album is surrounded by such an ageless and dark aura that reminds me some old great bands from the nineties but with a modern touch of brutality and technicality, a special note goes to the drummer in that regard .
It's a great album regardless genres , subgenres and all categorizations , this album will reunite us all because...IT SMELLS LIKE F.....G PURE DEATH METAL .
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3 of 28 found this review helpful |
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Origin - Omnipresent
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| ORIGIN-AL ? |
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Given the well known tech mastery of this band and the influence on the genre , what would you aspect from Origin?
Add a little grind , slam and arpeggios to refresh the sound ?
That's what they've done .
But does it really embody the essence of Origin?
A very good album , one of the best of this year but...does it really equals the magic of "Antithesis"?
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3 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Mercenary - Metamorphosis
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| A new Mercenary |
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The review from Bile above must be to a completely different band....
Yes, I am a huge Mercenary fan (see my other 3 Mercenary reviews) and honestly I didn't know what to expect when I got this album, since Morten & Mikkel Sandager and Mike Park left Mercenary the year before this was released.
As the album title reveals, this is Mercenary version....well, kinda hard to say what version it is, since every single Mercenary album has had a different lineup. They have become a quartet once again (which they haven't been since their debut First Breath from 1998) and to be honest having Rene Pedersen doing both growls/shouts and high pitched clean singing is in my opinion too much to ask. He does a good job, but only 'good'.
Honestly this new Mercenary isn't really me. It's too soft and centered around power metal melodies, lacking a lot of the harsh guitar sound that all the previous albums had. I get the feeling that they have the intentions of making a huge sounding album, but for whatever reasons it only gets halfway there.
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0 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Moonrise - Under The Flight Of Crows
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| MOONRISE – “UNDER THE FLIGHT OF CROWS” |
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Doom-laden, raw and different, this debut album from Italy’s Moonrise sees the band finally following up their two demos from the early 2000s. Kind of reminds us of the mid ’90s European melodic death metal scene, when the form wasn’t quite as predictable and stylized.
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1 of 6 found this review helpful |
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Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
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| Uninformative Review |
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Of all the thousands of Black Metal albums released over the years, this might just be the only one you need. This is early Norwegian Black Metal, writ very large.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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