Saturday, 14 February 2009
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
I don't have many grindcore albums, and this is the only Cannibal Corpse album I own. It is enjoyable, but I don't feel I need to buy anything else by them.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Vreid - Milorg
My first album purchase of 2009...
Epic first track "Alarm" opens with some nice mellotron-ish cellos before the band kicks off about a minute in. Nice breakdown in the middle, with harmony guitars that bleed into the next part of the song, then the opening theme is revisited towards the end. They put the longest track first!
The second track ("Disciplined") feels like a continuation of the first. Good riffs and some nice guitar harmonies.
Track 3, "Speak Goddamnit" has a pretty brutal distorted bass sound at the beginning. After about 2 minutes there's some clean guitar that reminds me very much of Annihilator's "Never Neverland" album from about 16 years ago, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Next it's "Blucher", nice track, maybe a bit unremarkable (or maybe I'm just tiring of writing track-by-track descriptions). Then along comes the instrumental "Blucher pt.II". More harmony guitars and a nice simple riff, which melts into some acoustic guitar and organ towards the end. This bit sounds like the theme from World in Action!
"Heroes & Villains" picks up the theme from the previous track in a faster metal style. All in all I'm starting think this album holds together pretty well as a whole work.
Track 6, "Argumento Ex Silentio", brings in some more clean guitars with the classic sound of the fifth that raises chromatically (think James Bond theme!) and some more strings which again sound like they're from an old mellotron. Some unusual chord progressions follow.
Milorg. The final track. Starts of quietly and builds. Rather mid-tempo for metal of this style, but it works. Nice tempo changes too. Ends quite abruptly.
My first album purchase of 2009...
Epic first track "Alarm" opens with some nice mellotron-ish cellos before the band kicks off about a minute in. Nice breakdown in the middle, with harmony guitars that bleed into the next part of the song, then the opening theme is revisited towards the end. They put the longest track first!
The second track ("Disciplined") feels like a continuation of the first. Good riffs and some nice guitar harmonies.
Track 3, "Speak Goddamnit" has a pretty brutal distorted bass sound at the beginning. After about 2 minutes there's some clean guitar that reminds me very much of Annihilator's "Never Neverland" album from about 16 years ago, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Next it's "Blucher", nice track, maybe a bit unremarkable (or maybe I'm just tiring of writing track-by-track descriptions). Then along comes the instrumental "Blucher pt.II". More harmony guitars and a nice simple riff, which melts into some acoustic guitar and organ towards the end. This bit sounds like the theme from World in Action!
"Heroes & Villains" picks up the theme from the previous track in a faster metal style. All in all I'm starting think this album holds together pretty well as a whole work.
Track 6, "Argumento Ex Silentio", brings in some more clean guitars with the classic sound of the fifth that raises chromatically (think James Bond theme!) and some more strings which again sound like they're from an old mellotron. Some unusual chord progressions follow.
Milorg. The final track. Starts of quietly and builds. Rather mid-tempo for metal of this style, but it works. Nice tempo changes too. Ends quite abruptly.
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Catching up with 2008
As a result of the review of 2008 in Terrorizer magazine, I recently bought the following:
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Not sure how I missed this one when it was released, it received quite a lot of hype in the usual magazines etc. Melodic death metal that's just fine to listen to, although it doesn't really grab me like some other bands in this genre.
Esoteric - The Mechanical Vale
Slow atmospheric doom metal with orchestral moments and some strange ambient noises. I like this one quite a lot.
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
This is powerful slow guitar-based music that in places reminds me of Brian Eno's Appollo album. There just aren't enough instrumental metal albums that are influenced by Eno!
Other than these, it seems I managed to pick up most of the "essential" extreme metal albums in 2008. On now into the 2009 releases...
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Not sure how I missed this one when it was released, it received quite a lot of hype in the usual magazines etc. Melodic death metal that's just fine to listen to, although it doesn't really grab me like some other bands in this genre.
Esoteric - The Mechanical Vale
Slow atmospheric doom metal with orchestral moments and some strange ambient noises. I like this one quite a lot.
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
This is powerful slow guitar-based music that in places reminds me of Brian Eno's Appollo album. There just aren't enough instrumental metal albums that are influenced by Eno!
Other than these, it seems I managed to pick up most of the "essential" extreme metal albums in 2008. On now into the 2009 releases...
Introduction
This is my new blog with lists of the albums I've bought and what I'm listening to right now. I listen to a lot of black metal, dark ambient, noise, and other extreme music and this blog will hopefully help me keep track of it all
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