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Virus of Violence is, as I understand it, the only full-length studio album by the Dutch band Desensitised. Of course, I never heard about them before. That makes the best kind of listening experience don’t you think? While doing a fast search there also seems to be an American band with the same name. This band allegedly changed its name to på Murder Syndicate in 2008. I haven’t heard anything about them either and I...
Battle of the Ancients’ biggest enemy is the production. If the band had just found a better producer who could make it sound less tinny, it would surely have been much better. For my part, there’s far too much bass and overall a dull, rumbling sound that I don’t enjoy at all. I never thought I would say this, but it needs a bit of air and separation between the instruments to work better. Musically,...
War Eternal Arch Ememyäs ninth studio Album. It’s a bit amusing when bands have female growlers. Arch Enemy, in this case, has a new addition to the album as well. Alissa White-Gluz is new to the band, taking over the vocal role. Admittedly, I’m not a big fan of this vocal technique, but one must commend the uniqueness in itself. You can’t hear at all that it’s a woman. I didn’t expect that! Musically, it’s...
I shouldn’t like Cannibal Corpse at all, I should like Chaos Horrific either. This music is really too extreme for me. It’s Death Metal where it’s impossible to hear a single word. It’s more a rule than an exception that I listen to such an album twice. But…I have come to learn to appreciate Cannibal Corpse. It’s brutal and Corpsegrinder has a vocalist style that makes it impossible for me to hear the lyrics. I...
Neither Putrescence nor The Wrath to Conquer All was something I never heard about before. I guess you should call it Death Metal but it’s not that fast or heavy. To me, it’s more like they tried a little too much to sound “dangerous”. It’s not bad by any means but the vocal kills the joy of listening to it for me. It’s way too shouty and almost Black Metal-ish. Sometimes crossing the lines to...
Make Them Beg for Death is Dying Fetus’s ninth studio album. I can’t say I ever really listened to them before though. I don’t know why really, the band is not new to me in any way and I’m sure I’ve heard them before, just not really listened. There is a difference. But I’m glad I took the time with Make The Beg for Death. I liked it. It’s not my favorite album of the...
When you come across a band called Anal Stabwound you know you gotta hear it! Big mistake! I couldn’t stand this Death Metal Band at all. If you should call it a band that is. It turns out to be pretty much one guy playing all the instruments and doing the vocals. It seems like this guy is really a drummer since I discovered that he did some drumming for other bands as well. And...
It’s not always easy putting a label on the more extreme kinds of metal. I’m actually not sure if Transilvania qualifies as Death- och Black Metal. There are deep growl/hissing vocals which I really don’t like. But the music is pretty nice. Not so riff-based but certainly aggressive. Toe aggressive for me to really enjoy it. Needless to say, I didn’t even try to hear the lyrics and it soon become too monotonic for me....
One of the fun things about listening to bands and releases you never heard (or heard of) before is that you never know what to expect. There is usual a description on the site or article you got the idea from. But since I’m old, ancient, grey and don’t have a clue about what some of these genres mean I’m still surprised and try to put the pieces together. I read that Hour of Penance...
I was listening to this a couple of days ago. I don’t really know why I had it in my Spotify list. I don’t think I ever heard about Morbid Saint before, let alone Spectrum of Death. But I like to explore stuff that is unknown to me so I gave it a go. I imagine I would have somewhat different thoughts about Spectrum of Death if this were the original length album. This Extended...
Hexed to be relesed 2019-03-08. Terrible cover art if you ask me. Let’s just hope the music is as good as usual 🙂
