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Skeletonwitch - Beyond The Permafrost
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This album is completely insane. I love the work that was put in. The vocals in Beyond The Perma Frost are not only insane, but awesome good. The song Remains Of The Defeated are among the best one in this album.
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Skinless - From Sacrifice To Survival
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Skinless has earned it's reputation as one of the most brutal live acts in death metal today. Their third album shows a newer sound added to Skinless that may have some question that rep now. I really like this album, but some older fans make not take the more simple, straight forward playing in some of their songs. Skinless may be looking for less of wowing the audinece with technical speed playing, but just plain pile driving their heads into the club floor with more breakdowns and slam riffs. "Miscreant", The Front Line of Sanity" and "Don't Risk Infection" have more of a Lamb Of God than Dying Fetus feel to it. It's still Skinless, but it's Skinless trying to kick your ass with Brazilian Ju-Jitsu instead of Karate. Then again, they weren't all that technical to start with. Overall, a very slammy death album that will leave you pickin' up chicklets.
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Six Feet Under - Bringer Of Blood
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Life in death metal only seems to be about 3 or 4 records at the most, so it amazes me to see Chris Barnes and SFU still around trolling out the same old mess that has left SFU on the death metal cutting room floor. Chris Barnes had something on the first album "The Haunted", but since then he has turned out nothing that breaks ground or helps build new ones. With this effort it's hard to see where some songs end and others begin. But with all that said this is their best effort since "The Haunted".
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Satan's Revenge On Mankind - Goreblast
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This album is among the most brutal Ive heard. The guitar riffs and drum blasting are sound that usually means you are dead ha ha.. The vocals arer hellish. Great timing on every song. Great album to listen to. Defenetly a to 10 in SICKNESS..
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Samael - Eternal
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I haven't heard a band that sounds like these guys yet. It's kinda like black metal with a twist... there are haunting melodies, growling, snarling vocals..a drum machine, and keyboards. Fucked up eh?
This is slightly different from other Samael albums I've heard, there seems to be more emphasis on keyboard sounds, the vocals, and various strange percussion noises, than on crazy groovin' guitar riffs.
"Together" is classic Samael, you know it's them instantly, but the chorus kinda threw me a bit...that vocal melody is fucked up! "Supra Karma" is catchy (for this kind of music) and a fav...other tracks I've haven't really gone into yet...
This is pretty cool but doesn't touch their other albums yet like "Passage" or "Ceremony Of Opposites"
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Red Harvest - Internal Punishment Programs
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Red Harvest are a swirling ball of industrial death metal, with a dash of thrash. Double bass abounds, vocals croak and growl, and guitars gallup. The samples are well used here, not overdone, nor silly. The band's sound seems somewhere between Samael, The Crown, and Skinny Puppy...let's just say heavy and good. The album itself sounds great, not too polished, and not like a garage band on a 4 track, after all, it was mixed at the infamous Studio Fredman. Gotta love those Swedes.
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Origin - Echoes Of Decimation
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Origin come out strong handed and perform some of the most brutal riffs I've heard in some time. No chugging along here, or simple time changes, the drumming and arrangements are off the charts. This is probably one of the new best death metal records out right now. Songs to check out, "Reciprocal", (for it's pure insanity and air guitar greatness Ha!), "Staring from the Abyss" is another along those lines where it's more of an opera then a metal song. With so much going, there really isn't a moment to get bored.
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Opeth - Ghost Reveries
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With all the hype around the new Opeth album, their debut for Roadrunner, the addition of a permenent keyboard player, the absence of Steve Wilson in the studio, and the waiting, I decided not to get too excited or expect that somehow they'd top any of their last albums. After all, Opeth had just put out what I consider the 3 most amazing albums of their career in the past few years, ("Blackwater Park", "Deliverance", and "Damnation") how do you top that when "My Arms Your Hearse" and "Morningrise" are also under your belt?. So, it's finally here and I'm glad I didn't get too excited. Don't get me wrong, this is still an Opeth album in every sense, it doesn't sound like any suits over at Roadrunner tried to rip the band apart and rebuild them as the next Nickelback (shudder). Opeth still do everything they usually do, but they've tried to throw even more into the mix and now it sounds like they've got too many cooks in the kitchen. This album is progressive, has the complex death metal parts that flow into the folk guitar sections etc. It's just not grabbing me like their previous efforts do. Opeth sound like they're trying to do too many things here and it just doesn't flow in some places. Mikael takes some chances with the vocals on a few tracks, trying new styles out, most noticeably on "Ghost Of Perdition", and there are definately more keyboards. It'll be interesting to see where Opeth go from here, but this one just isn't taking over my cd player yet
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Obituary - Anthology
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Here we have the long overdue Obituary Anthology, a collection of what I consider death metal classics. The riffs are evil, and unlike most death, the vocals are original and actually intelligible.
While this heaping slab of Obituary songs may not include everyone's ideal list of the greats.
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Obituary - Frozen In Time
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Florida's finest have returned with a 6th studio album, (which I thought we'd never see). I figured the slow, evil, grindy death metal of the early 90's, that I loved so much, was lost forever when Carcass and Obituary went their own morbid ways. "Frozen In Time" is a very appropriate title indeed. All the trademarks are there, the snarling vocals, killer riffs, double bass, those slow crushing breakdowns...The album opens with an instrumental, 3 minutes of instumental death metal...how badass is that? Sure, the band aren't really doing anything new with their sound after 6 years, but what did you expect? When you hear this band, you know it's Obituary and no one else, can't say that about many newer death metal bands. My favorite kind of death metal is back.
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