Monday, August 29, 2011

Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion [2007]

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The vocals are WAY more powerful than they were on the previous album. "Fragmented Oblivion" starts shit off on the right foot wi...

Odious Mortem - Devouring the Prophecy [2005]

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Short as hell Technical Death Metal album. It's pretty damn heavy and it's very technical. The production is quite good as well. ...

Novembre - Wish I Could Dream it Again [1994]

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The production quality is what I'd expect for a first album. It's pretty interesting stuff. Really feels like they've stumbled...

Sarah Marie Mullen - The Wild Woods [2006]

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It's shocking how, despite being predominantly harp music, this album is in a completely different style than LF. Some more instruments...

Sarah Marie Mullen - Luna's Fancy [2004]

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What can I say. It's beautiful stuff. Pretty well played with only a few significant mistakes that stand out. I can't comment on ...

Iced Earth - Horror Show [2001]

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The first four tracks are quite good. Of them, only "Jack" seems to capture the energy that they used to have. However, the song...

Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the Death of Desire [1997]

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So, yeah, it's a bit of Metalcore and a bit of Hardcore. Neither are winning genres for me, but Hatebreed is quite good at capturing th...

Slayer - World Painted Blood [2009]

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They've obviously gone back to the "less is more" approach for guitar distortion... which is really fucking annoying since the...

Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka [1998]

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No time wasted here at all. "Smashing the Antiu" jumps right into the fray with grinding. It's good stuff all the way throug...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

The Doors - The Doors [1967]

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There are quite a lot of the classics that everyone knows on this album. It's quite ethereal and the music skips through varying degree...

Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed [2002]

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Another push on the production quality makes this the heaviest CC album by far. There's a lot of good stuff here. There's more cat...

Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst [1999]

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New production quality isn't as warm as Gallery, but it is a bit heavier much more clear. The overall level of excellence for this albu...

Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide [1998]

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After the thrashy "I Will Kill You" and the incredibly catchy and brutal "Disposal of the Body", "Sentenced to Burn...

Cannibal Corpse - Vile [1996]

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Kick in the nuts start to the album. "Devoured by Vermin" really seems to set the stage for the newly evolved CC to push the brut...

Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding [1994]

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Right from the start, it feels a bit more like the passionate brutality that CC is known for. Hopefully it will last through the whole albu...

Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated [1992]

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Off to a catchy, heavy, and grinding start with "Hammer Smashed Face". It doesn't have the excitement of their later works ov...

Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth [1991]

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There's a lot more doom to this album. There are also places where the album drags quite a lot. It feels like the writing for this one...

Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life [1990]

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Heavy writing. It's a lot more thrash inspired than CC's later stuff, but the classic CC style is still buried in the music for tho...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost [2011]

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Judging by the beginning of "Fly", this will be an album more in the style of Ki. Fuck, it's so damn calm it's impossible...

The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction [2011]

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Wahey! I was NOT expecting an electronic almost break-beat style to the beginning of the album. Damn, nice way to ease the music into epic...