Metal Reviews

My list, in no particular order:

Immolation - Shadows In The Light
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Behemoth - Demigod
The Crown - Deathrace King
Sinister - Afterburner
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Mithras - Behind The Shadows Lie Madness
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, And All the Devils Are Here
Enslaved - Monumension
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Negura Bunget - Om
Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem
Blood of Kingu - De Occulta Philosophia
Destroyer 666 - Defiance

i've never heard Sinister before....

nOObie!

i'm just getting into more and more death metal but still pretty much a raving lunatic into Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation now..

Ulcerate-Everything is fire
Cannibal Corpse-The Bleeding
Cannibal Corpse-Butchered At Birth
Cattle Decapitation-The harvest floor

god Sinister are intense....

I just noticed that Gorgoroth has regained former vocalist Pest. I liked his vocals on Pentagram very much

Are you being sarcastic? First of all, Salvation was in no way, shape or form black/thrash. If that's your definition of black/thrash then you definitely have some listening and learning to do.

Second of all, Arioch threw in "more elements"? Its more like he threw in a bunch of samples in order to hide that fact that there seems to be no ideas in Maranatha at all. All he does is repeat the same one or two riffs per song for lord knows how long, in some feeble attempt to be "atmospheric", followed by throwing in unnecessary samples. Its another case of a band that tries to hide their slump in creativity by using the progressive card. "Its not boring, its just beyond your comprehension!" Seriously, I'm surprised people continue to fall for it. Arioch could have put out an EP jamming his tablespoon of ideas for Maranatha into three shorter songs and been more successful than putting out that filler of an album. More elements? What a laugh.

Edit, argh I had written up a response to traptunderice but it got deleted...here it is once more:



Interesting, thanks for the stats and yeah they do seem pretty consistent. On a small side note, whether relevant or not, I find it a little amusing that the songs that seem to be most consistently on top are the first few tracks off Si Monumentum, and pretty much in perfect order, too! I tried comparing it to other bands like Funeral Mist and some others, and found that similar trend to be very rare. Whether or not its relevant at all to what I originally posted about Si Monumentum and how it tends to lose its "oomph" as the album goes on, I don't know, but thought I'd make note anyway.

No Unholy Cult? Shadows was one of their weakest, imo, if not the weakest so it boggles my mind that someone would see it as among the best of the decade!



Nice list of stuff here. Blood of Kingu was one of those bands that I was very excited to hear when Roman first started talking about the project, but it took so long for him to put out the debut that I kind of forget about BoK for a while and still haven't managed to buy this yet, shamefully. I've heard a few songs and loved them as I do with most of his music, but for some reason after the wait I just keep ending up getting other things instead of this release. Really must get down to it.

I found BoK kind of a letdown really. Hopefully the next album'll be better.

I think it's just because they probably listen to the full album. My last.fm top songs is just the first few songs of my favourite albums, which are on top because I get distracted sometimes.

Haha so true.

Nice list.Hmm this is a retardedly difficult thing to compile.I'll throw out...

Nile - Black Seeds of Vengence,Annihilation of the Wicked
Martyr - Warp Zone(wouldv'e picked Hopless Hopes but 90's)
Capharnaum - Fractured
Crotchduster - Big Fat Box of Shit
Gorod - Neurotripstix,Leading Vision,Process of a New Decline
Dim Mak - Knives of Ice
Hate Eternal - I,Monarch
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis,Nihility,The Negation
Akercocke - Everything.
+
Demonoid - Riders of the Apocalypse
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Devilyn - XI
Trauma - Dertermination
Belphegor - Lucifer Incestus
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Torcherbearer,Craniotomy,Abominable Putridity,Abysmal Torment - Omnicide(holy shit!!!),Necrophagist,Unmoored,Unleashed,Wintersun,Skinless,

Black List is tough cause I'm not a tRvE El173ist but hey I'll throw some fun one's out there.

Deathspell Omega - Fas
Negura Bunget - Om
Peste Noire - Le Sanie...
Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey
Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
Dragonlord - Black Wings of Destiny
Dodheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
Dekadent - The Deliverance of the Fall
Glorior Belli - Manifesting the Raging Beast
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
/fuck I'm posting doom/funeral doom god damnit!
Candlemass - Death.Magick.Doom.
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
Draconian - The Burning Halo
Urna -
Reverend Bizarre and shitloads more!All in all it was a fantastic decade for metal in general,as every genre and subgenre had some stellar releases,many of which I am just starting to recall and want to play em all at once.Curses!!!
Doom:VS - Aeturnum Vale

I've been pretty much devouring a lot of old school death metal these last four weeks. Is Gorod any good?

Nice dude,old school kicks ass.And with a great pedigree and foundation,so too does the future look bright with bands like Gorod bringing the goods.They play tech death,but compared to alot of wankery these guys write fantastic songs.The first album isn't to heavy but is solid stuff with great solos and leads.Leading Vision is less outright melodic and focuses on dual guitar interplay more and somewhat traditional death metal songwriting,though the compositions and playing is stellar.Process is even more progressive,and may require many listens to really get and appreciate.One thing I love about Gorod is the love put into the music,making each solo great imo,the adventurous exploration and the catchiness.So often I find myself itching to listen to their songs.Highly recommended but don't force it,let it happen.haha

Call me dense, but I'm not sure I get what you're saying. I was pretty much noting that the first few tracks of Si Monumentum, practically in order, seem to be much more played than the rest of the album, and it seems the plays dip as it progresses. Then you responded that its probably because they listen to the full album? Typo or am I missing something?

I can understand that certain songs get played more often than other even when listening to a full album (I'll occasionally have a song on repeat for a bit and then eventually continue the rest of the album from there f.ex.) But with a few other bands with the same number of releases as DsO you kinda get a different array of top songs from their entire discography rather than just a few songs in order consistently at the top. Just an observation and, like I said before, not sure its really relevant but maybe interesting anyways.

But like I said, may have missed something here...who knows.

Actually, I never heard Unholy Cult. And I like SITL better than Harnessing Ruin.

As for BoK, yeah, it's a pretty cool album, don't listen to Zad or his review (where he is guilty, imo, of blaming the music for not meeting his stylistical expectations, instead of coming into the album with no expectations - other than quality ones - and focusing exclusively on the content at hand).

I wasn't fond of either Shadows nor Harnessing Ruin, actually though Shadows I liked a little less. But yeah, you should definitely check out Unholy Cult. The whole album is pretty great, but I really liked Rival the Eminent, Reluctant Messiah, Of Martyrs and Men and the title track most of all. Probably the album highlights for me.



I'll have to read the review since I haven't yet, but, yeah, from the few songs I'd heard it sounded pretty great. Now just to get off my ass and actually pick this up.

Mm, perhaps to a certain extent, but marketing a band as the continuation of Hate Forest means that a certain amount of expectations are unavoidable. My problems with it were more due to the shortness, the same-old-same-old nature of the music and the fact that the songwriting wasn't that great. I think 75's a pretty generous score for it, actually.

You start listening to the album and then you get distracted and turn it off halfway through.