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Deicide - To Hell With God
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| Old-School Death Metal At Its Best |
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Look, you either like Deicide, or you don't. If you're a death metal fan, you gotta admit that they're one of the classic bands. They've been around for ages, and even though they have some duds in their catalog, overall their body of work is pretty solid.
Say hello to one of Deicide's best works! This album is truly a worthy addition to their catalog. There are some off-kilter riffs here sprinkled on several of the songs that were quite a surprise. The brutality is still there. It's just that they've added just a touch of complex riffage. And yes, several of the vocal patterns have already been used in other albums, but the music underneath this time is just fantastic, and the fire with which it is delivered is quite compelling.
If your interest in Deicide had decreased, you owe it to yourself to give this one a spin. They've proven they still got it.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance
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| Another Excellent Release |
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This is an amazing band that never ceases to impress. Every album builds on the previous and the sound just gets more and more evil. The production here is also very clear. These guys are tongue-in-cheek about their 'love for satan' but at the end of the day you have an extremely talented group of musicians who still like to keep it brutal yet original.
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Keep Of Kalessin - Reptilian
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| Quite Possibly the Best Keep of Kalessin Release Yet |
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I had pretty high expectations for this release from Keep of Kalessin, and I'm happy to say I wasn't disappointed. With this CD the band seems to have matured and diversified a bit more from "Kolossus," their previous release...there's even a song that's drenched liberally in blackened power-metally goodness entitled "The Dragontower," a nice change-up.
If you liked their previous two releases I'd say you're pretty safe in getting this one; they've become consistently excellent.
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3 of 4 found this review helpful |
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Howl - Full Of Hell
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| Completely... |
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... underrated album, imo!!! Only 3 (!!!) of 5 penta*stars* - 05-16-2011; date-cancel.
Aren't you ashamed to vote anything like this?!?!?!
Don't loose heart, Seclu! --- FKN great album, IMO \m/
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5 of 6 found this review helpful |
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Intestinal Alien Reflux - Illegal Aliens
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| Must Kill All Human |
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ARny
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11 May 2011 |
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This is a good band I discovered here on dfm. Well, it's bree, so you can't get wrong. The lyrical themes are: Aliens, Sci-Fi, Gore, Death and Perversion. How awesome does that sound? The overall sound is brutal, the "bree" sounds pissed as shit (well, it sounds good), the lyrics are sick and there's a fkn UFO on the fkn green cover. Throw in Must Kill All Human or Attempted Venicular Manslaughter and you'll get pumped up.
It's not the best bdm, but I say check it out.
4 Pentagrams.
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4 of 5 found this review helpful |
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Ensiferum - Dragonheads
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| Dragonheads |
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Ensiferum have returned, and finally release Dragonheads, their first CD after Jari Mäenpää left to form Wintersun. Replacing him as the bands new vocalist/guitarist is Petri Lindroos (ex-Norther), however he will only do harsh vocals, and the rest of the band will take over clean vocals.
The first song on this album is a brand new track called Dragonheads, and it’s got quite a mid paced speed to it, but it’s still a very well done song. This song is quite a good preview of the direction Ensiferum will take their music on their next album “Victory Songs.”
The second and fourth songs (Warrior’s Quest and White Storm respectively) are re-recorded versions of tracks released back in their demo days. Warrior’s Quest is another mid paced song with some faster parts to it; basically this song is everything you could reasonably expect from a typical Ensiferum track. White Storm is a much faster song, full of energy and intensity; definitely my favourite track on this EP, as well as being one of my very favourite Ensiferum tracks out of everything they’ve done.
For track five Ensiferum have done a cover of the Amorphis song Into Hiding, which originally comes off their 1994 album “Tales From The Thousand Lakes”. I’m a really big fan of this Amorphis album so it pleases me to be able to say Ensiferum have done a very good job with this cover. Ensiferum have managed to keep the integrity of the original track as well as add their own unique spin to the song, which has a much darker feel to it than your usual Ensiferum track.
Tracks three and six (Kalevala Melody and Finnish Medley) are tracks based off the Kalevala, but I’m not going to try to explain their lyrical themes, I’ll just stick to the music instead. Kalevala Medley is a short but sweet interlude track, whereas Finnish Medley is another new composition which can be considered the epic track of the album. Slow paced and containing female vocals at the start (sung in Finnish), but it picks up its pace a bit around the middle where the clean male vocals take over (also sung in Finnish), this song is really beautiful to listen to, and an excellent way to end off this EP.
Overall, this EP shows that Ensiferum are still very capable of performing excellent viking/folk metal, whether the song be fast, slow, somewhere in between, or covering something else (I’ve always felt that Ensiferum does excellent covers, the Amorphis cover confirms that thought). This EP is proof that Ensiferum will go on stronger than ever with Petri Lindroos in the fold.
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3 of 4 found this review helpful |
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Decrepit Birth - ...And Time Begins
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| Amazing... |
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Decrepit Birth is by far one of the best death metal bands i have ever heard in my life. Point.
WARNING: listening to *...And Time Begins* will subject you to the following symptoms:
uncontrollable sweating, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, severe panic attacks,
lucid visions of human annihilation, arrhythmia, destroyed eardrums, brain leakage...
... and an erection lasting longer than 4 hours... ;-)
*CHEERZ, fuckers !!!* \m/
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3 of 4 found this review helpful |
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Vulvectomy - Putrescent Clitoral Fermentation
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| vulvectom.ish death metal ;-) |
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Debut full-lenght of ultra brutal [slam] death metal from Italy!
Incredible album with 8 crushing tracks. Featuring Diego from
Stench Of Dismemberment, Natron etc.
For fans of Devourment, Carnivore Diprosopus, Disgorge a MUST...
*CHEERZ!!!* \m/
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7 of 8 found this review helpful |
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Death - Individual Thought Patterns
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| Top marks from beginning till end |
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Individual Thought Patterns continued the complex and very technical side of metal that the previous album Human had already shown. In my book ITP is one of the best metal albums of all time, together with the following album from Death, Symbolic.
Most (if not all) of Death's music is written single-handedly by Chuck Schuldiner, and the musicianship he posesses is simply second to none. Eventhough this is death metal, the riffs found on ITP are very diverse, with influences from thrash, prog and more.
Apert from Chuck Schuldiner on guitar, the lineup consist of:
Andy LaRocque - guitar
Gene Hoglan - drums
Steve DiGiorgio - bass
In my opinion this is one of the best lineups any band has ever had. All 4 are solid names in the metal community and combined they've created a masterpiece that set a standard so high, it would be almost impossible to top that.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Borknagar - Borknagar
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| Borknagar |
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Formed in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun of Norwegian death metal band Molested, with members of Gorgoroth, Arcturus, Enslave, Immortal and Ulver to create what had become one of the most intriguing and stylish bands to come out of Norway. The debut has been chosen here to represent the coming together of Borknagar in a razor sharp primitive display of violent Black Metal. The release has none of the polish of the future albums, and yet the Viking leanings of the vocals manage to cement the sound at the very heart of Norwegian Black Metal. The following 1997 album, The Olden Domain, and certainly its natural offspring, The Archaic Course album, in 1998, cemented that unique Borknagar style.
Borknagar have that rare distinguished sound and are one of the few acts to own such a distinctive style that is instantly recognizable.
Other acts to own such status [out side the genre] are the likes of Bal
Sagoth, Sigh, and more obviously Voi Vod. Inimitable so to speak, whereas most other acts are mutated across the board.
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