Metal Reviews

But Radikult and Destructos are more evocative of Rob Zombie than Godflesh, no?

Oh, dear god yes. Morbid Angel going Godflesh would possibly be even more mind-destroying. In a good way.

Had they gone the Godflesh (thinking Streetcleaner era) route, I daresay they would have made at least 90% of us happy. Maybe in another 8 years we'll get lucky!

They are not that different in the current circumstance as you would presume, though your point is granted that Morbid Angel are not selling out. My assessment of this album being somewhat similar to Cryptopsy's experimental tendencies on their latest pile of shit, both bands experimented with their respective tendencies and both having at least one member introducing elements of a concurrent project into the corpus of the main band. Hmm, let's see it didn't work for Cryptopsy when during the songwriting process when Flo and Mccgathy introduced deathcore elements, and it obviously floundered miserably when Trey introduced his industrial elements into the bloodstream of Morbid Angel. This being a conscious decision on his part is far from "losing the plot", however, it does make for completely botching the album. As for the claim that being "open-minded" indicates tolerating this dogshit, I am inclined to disagree strongly.

I had missed that.
Spot on Chucky!

Actually you should like a band if you enjoy listening to it for whatever reason.

Forcing oneself to like a band just cause they're creative (or brutal or technical or extreme or pop or whatever) is not a good way to experience music.

I view music as entertainment. I listen to stuff I like. I do not listen to stuff I don't like.

And I listen to music for the emotional experience. If I want something angry I listen to Kreator or Morbid Angel's Domination or Slayer. If I want party music, I listen to Guns N Roses, Motley Crue. If it's a stormy night and I want to experience a bit of a Hammer Horror vibe, I chuck on Cradle of Filth. Etc etc.

The new Morbid Angel album is too disjointed to be enjoyable for me. For the most part it also lacks the things I liked about Morbid Angel which was basically their take on Death Metal on albums A,B,C,D.

Haha, the whole idea that criticisizing a band for "treading new ground" when it falls short as being "close minded" or "an idiot" is fucking lame.

dead1 had it right.
If I want to hear third-rate industrial, that's what I will put in my CD player.
Sadly, I can also put in the new Morbid Angel.

Even the DM parts are trite, stale and worst of all, boring... 8 years and this is the best they could do?

See how "open minded" they are when it comes to Burzum, Drudkh, NSBM, etc... oh, wait.

The albums pretty much blows, case closed.

This album has to be an elaborate troll attempt or something. Hearing this reminds me of the first time I heard The Unspoken King.

Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZpJ4lv ... r_embedded

South Eastern Europe was full of dictators back in the 80s. One of communism's great gifts to the people.

Haha!

You have found a way to relate the new Morbid Angel to your quaint persecution complex on behalf of your little nazi bands. Colour me surprised.

Interesting, isn't it, how some of us are so anti-Burzum and anti-Drudkh that we gave them highly positive reviews on this very site. D'oh.

You have an enormous chip on your shoulder. Depressing people bringing up the same depressing arguments again and again seems to be the lifesblood of this forum.

Also, I find it hard to relate to someone who cannot tell that, when I refer to myself as being 'the parliamentary moderate of the Open Minded Brigade', there is an element of self-satirising involved.

Vehement Nationalism does not make an individual a "Nazi", never once have I encountered anything of any semblance towards Nazism in Roman's work. Perhaps it would be better to clarify for you and others that vehement Nationalism, as is obvious with his predilection tout his Slavonic heritage does not make him at odds with other races. Apart from Purity Hate Forest were not and I repeat never an NS act, and to associate Drudkh with Nazism may have something to do with an ulterior motive to associate them and or brand them with that ideological stigma. I personally see no parallels to be drawn between Morbid Angel and Drudkh, other than both of their newest albums being horrible.

Dear me, first Morbid Angel is at St Anger levels, now you're implying that Handful Of Stars was too?

Perhaps, that was a tad too much of an overreaction on my part, sir. It was more or less a 5/10, as opposed to the MA which is about a 0/10.

COTB just wanted to get you to start posting again.

I'm not sure about your point about solos. It just seems like you are reaching for something, anything positive to say. The lack of solos was not the reason St. Anger sucked .. off the top of my head there is plenty of good metal with little or no soloing.

I wasn't saying that Illud has solos therefore it is good, St Anger didn't and therefore was bad. Was replying to people comparing the two albums by pointing out the differences, and criticising the lazy 'this is as bad as St Anger' thing people always say when reacting very negatively to an album that doesn't live up to their expectations. It's the Godwin's Law of metal.

I wasn't even referring to you, so you can fuck right off.

But, IMO, the comparison is a valid one, and isn't about Brzum, etc.... ostensibly or otherwise.
The "open minded" bullshit thrown around seems to be very selectively applied. If you can't see the point, then I can't help you.


As for the rest of your post: emotion driven pablum devoid of logic and not worth a response.