All customer reviews by Sergey P.
Posted on: March 16, 2018
Successful experiments
Experiments are a matter at least worthy of attention. Moreover, when they amazingly successfully demonstrate another facet of the talent of the creative team. Here we are dealing with this. Kreator brings to your attention a cool techno-trash, from the melodiousness of "Coma of Souls" and from the cold mystical insertions in "Renewal" there is practically nothing left. Only denser guitar riffs, supported by an even more powerful bass and the coolest drummer Joe Cangelosi, whom Ventor does not copy correctly at concert performances, will not work out. I love technicians. Even if there is a certain amount of monotony in the material (a little bit at all !!!), the worst performance will smooth the picture perfectly. The best things are "Lost", "Catolicas despot", "Progressive proletarians", "Previous".
Posted on: October 17, 2017
Mid-tempo melodic death
I decided to start the Amon Amarth band from this album. This work is a mid-tempo melodic death with lyrics inspired by Scandinavian mythology and Vikings. Something super-outstanding is not here, but at the same time its a very catchy album, mainly due to the simple guitar melodies underlying the compositions. The sound is quite on the level, modern and zhivnovaty slightly. With the lyrical component there are no problems, the Swedes in their texts tell us about the moments before the battles, about the battles themselves and about the inevitable cruel losses. Less, in my opinion, only one. As I said at the beginning, the music from Amon Amarth is mid-tempo in this work, so its impossible to avoid some monotony. It would be worth them to diversify the album a couple of faster tracks, and it would be quite wonderful.
Posted on: September 25, 2017
Just beyond praise
Along with Death Or Glory and Black Hand Inn, my favorite Running disc. I know that many of the bands old fans do not like albums, starting with this and ... until their last Victory, accusing the team of self-plagiarism. Most likely it is - all the songs from the subsequent discs are glued together from things from previous. But despite all this self-plagiarism, almost all subsequent discs (well, maybe with the exception of Masquerade) make me very happy. Well, this disk is just beyond praise! Opens the disc with an excellent intro Chamber of Lies, turning into a killer Whirwind. I also want to highlight very strong Black Wings Of Death, the same name song Pile Of Skulls and the next Lead Or Gold following it. Well, the strongest thing on the album is the last - an 11-minute epic of Treasure Island ...
P.S. Anomaly still turns out ... Running is the only team that, for all its monotony, continues to please me with every new (self-plagiarized) disc ... :))
Posted on: September 21, 2017
A masterpiece for all time
For about 5-6 years ago, I heard this group on the death grinds collection of my elder brother. And I really loved that song - After World Obliteration, and I still love it, practically wiping the album World Downfall to holes.
Aggression, rabies, adrenaline - thats what music for me Terrorizer. In the course of listening to this album, I want, at least, either to break my head against the wall, or to smash someone else about it, and the skill of the musicians and the tower-riffing riffs with the blastbits strongly incite it. 16 compositions of the select death grind will make not only your pets go crazy, but also neighbors.
I would like to note that at a time when the napalm was still playing cave grind (do not think that Im skeptical about this: I love napalms myself) Terrorizer was already cut by a well-placed grind. It remains only to say many thanks to the band Terrorizer: the album World Downfall is a masterpiece for all time.
Posted on: September 8, 2017
Simply super!
Simply super! A crazy mixture of Teutonic power metal-speed and drive in the spirit of MOTORHEAD with a distinctive vocal. All songs are very smooth and hit, although personally I would sing Wheels Of Doom and Black Soul. Minus the album - the main melodic drawing in Soliel Royal literally licked from the song SLAYER Metal Storm / Face The Slayer. In the rest, the album is simply gorgeous. Ideal for fans to shake their heads under a noisy and winding, not burdened with various bells and whistles music.
Posted on: September 4, 2017
Death-Doom
When holland team the Asphyx published their debut full-length album "The Rack", the death scene all over the world began to go in the direction of improving the quality of the recording and the technicality of the game, more and more moving away from the darkness that was the spirit of the early death metal. The goladtsy, apparently, decided to return the original spirit to the music. The style of "The Rack" was defined by the musicians themselves as death-doom. The guitars turned out to be typically in the form of a deathly spine. The vocals of Martin van Drunen from Pestilence quite correspond to the band's name - when listening it seems that the vocalist really has "asphyxia of the respiratory tract." The drum kit is failed. The general sounding is old-school-carbon, primitive, but sincere. The action begins a one and a half minute intro "The Quest Of Absurdity", played entirely on the keyboard. Very atmospheric, especially choral passages closer to the middle. "Vermin" is a classic old school death, although the overall rhythm is somewhat slower than usual in the death metal. "Diabolical Existence" is an interesting composition, a good example of the favorite reception of Aspic people - the transition from blastbit to slow tempo. The next song, "Evocation", pleases guitar solo 2:27 - 3:12. "Wastland of Terror" is written fairly standard, and therefore not particularly impressed. The "The Sickening Dwell" uses a change of rhythm. At 2:31 - 3:00 just like a real guitar whirlwind! But the best hits are left at the end: first of all, the classy instrumental "Ode to a Nameless Grave", with non-death's deep guitar cuts at a general slow pace of the game. "Pages in Blood" - a song of a similar type, but with vocals, with the lead forward solo-party. The title track "The Rack" is also pleased with the cutting sound, a thoughtful sound with a slant in doom. The composition ends with space keys on the background of a fading sound. A good album, capable to please the old metal player with the old school frenzy of death and at the same time the Doomly of the separate passages. Admirers of the death to acquire necessarily, the rest - at will, for general development.
Posted on: August 17, 2017
Great job!
Great job! The first Sodom album I heard was "M-16". Album (named after the famous assault rifle) - a concept entirely dedicated to the horrors of the Vietnam War (as opposed to "Agent Orange" (1989), which touch on issues that are not related to the war). He really immerses us in military operations, with their calm and sneaking around on all sides by death. A kind of soundtrack for the war in Vietnam. This is especially felt in the song "Napalm in the Morning", at the beginning of which we hear the famous speech of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from the movie "Apocalypse Now," Coppola, which Robert Duval character says after the helicopter attack and the subsequent burning of the surrounding dzhugley napalm: "I love Smell of napalm in the morning .It's the smell ... of victory! " It is a pity that not all of it included before the track, because it, in my opinion, accurately conveys the horror of the war: "you smell It Napalm, son more, nothing smells so I love the smell of napalm in the morning of the world once we bombed one?... height, twelve hours in a row. And when it was over, I went up to her. There was nobody, not even a stinking corpse. Only the smell of napalm! The whole hill was it soaked. It was the smell ... victory! Someday this war is over ". Well, the original "Surfin 'Bird", on which Sodom recorded a cover, can be heard in another masterpiece of the Vietnam war, "Full Metal Jacket" Kubrick.
"M-16" is quite a diverse album. Speed †‹†‹action movies (like "I Am the War"), alternating with mid-tempo tracks (the same "Napalm in the Morning"), which can not but rejoice. I remember, in many reviews of the band's early albums, it was her fault that the compositions were monotonous. "M-16" - here's an example from the opposite. If we consider the stylistic features of the album, I want to note that this is no longer the straightforward thrash metal, which is a group of "sliced" in the late '80s - early' 90s, and I would say, hard'n'thrash.
In short, the album is magnificent in every respect. There is no speed for, in fact, speed. Competent, mature, professional work, which certainly will not be superfluous in your discography.
Posted on: August 9, 2017
A great work
Celtic Frost is a band that has had a big impact on the whole development of heavy music. Their third work "To Mega Therion" is one of those that set the vector for the development of many genres of the metal scene. The sound on the album, though executed in one key, still contains many complex proto-elements of the modern metal movement. The album is characterized by the stratification of the thrash-rhythm of many compositions to the atmosphere of doom-metal. Fischer's vocals, as if something is reciting, remain equally slow on the whole album, shouting out phrases. Vocals, although it remains almost pure, still creates atmospheric no less than modern black vocal. The sound of the album changes from the brisk pulling of one riff to a fast thrash rhythm. The real hits of the album can be called "Circle of the Tyrants" and "Dawn of Meggido", which became classics, the first composition is filled with progressive sound, energy and a terrible atmosphere similar to the current black-metal. "Dawn of Meggido" - on the contrary, slow dragging like dental Pain composition. Later on, "Circle of the Tyrants" will record covers such bands as Opeth and Obituary. There was an album with no proto death-elements, so the song "Fainted Eyes" can be called death metal. The disc also features "Tears in a Prophet's Dream" - a short but excellent darkwave filled with nightmarish sounds in the spirit of the whole album. In general, the album is a great work that can not be overemphasized. Filled with an unforgettable atmosphere of darkness and nightmares, frosty prickly, "To Mega Therion" is a landmark in the history of heavy music, which, in terms of music, anticipated the sound of many metal bands. In support of the influence can be given just one example: Therion - a famous band, got its name from the title of this album.
Posted on: July 31, 2017
Golden legacy of the romantic 80s
I think this album is the best in the discography of this legendary group. I can hardly name it Speed-Power. In my opinion they play all the hard Hard'n'Heavy stuff.
And so much about the album. Compared to "Under Jolly Roger", the 1988 album is profitable. You ask what is it? Willingly you will answer this.
I'll start the analysis with my favorite rhythm section, before the recording of the album it completely changed. The new people not only strengthened the sound, they brought it closer to the ideal, they brought it to the heights, which at that time could be conquered except that "Iron Maiden". The drummer's games are beyond praise. Each note is audibly heard, separately about the twin barrels, so elegantly and at the same time it is aggressive and powerful in the "Running" for the installation, neither who else has played (Jorg is also not bad as a drummer, but he is closer to the technique Slaughtering), asphalt to the place, in general aerobatics.
Bassman! It's just a "song," you listen and you still want to! "Final Gates" is a classic of the whole direction! Again, associations with "Iron Maiden" and with the unforgettable Steve Harris!
Now to the double guitars. Again, on this release, we have the good fortune to hear the duo of Rolf & Majk, the "Running Wild" story. The solos are thought out and virtuosic, the speed is solid, they change as if they've been playing together for the rest of their lives!
Now about the music itself. In my opinion this was exactly the moment when Rolf and his comrades were at the creative peak. All the compositions are marked with a seal of inspiration, they listen in one breath, as if a musically stated monolith appeared before us! Plus it also consists in the fact that We hear really a team of like-minded people (the songs were composed and brought to the standard, the musicians together). Separately I will say about the vocals of Rolfa.Spel is clean and high, which I did not do before. The voice sounds like a stretched string, it does not dare but rattles! "Port Royal "
Separately, I want to note the work of the sound engineer. The instruments sound crystal-clear, but some people think that it would be possible to add loudness to the supporting guitar, riffs are not heard, but I think it's a matter of taste!
"Port Royal" is the golden legacy of the romantic 80's. Buy and listen to the classics of the German Metal scene, you will not regret. I give the hand to the cut!
Posted on: July 26, 2017
Cure for depression
Want to know what drug best saves from depression? My answer is the German heavy/power metal band Running Wild. After all, in this group in their repertoire there is not one (!) ballad in general! Only fast, downhole and mid-tempo and fairly melodic songs. Consider this CD "Under Jolly Roger". It was this disc from RW that I heard first. From the first listening, he hooked me and started my hobby Running Wild, which for several years has been my favorite band. UJR is the 3rd disc of the group. From this drive began a pirate epic and this disc was a turning point in the history of the group. If the previous 2 albums were "damp" and inexpressive, then this is just a masterpiece! Sounds heavier than the early albums and on this album the band patented YOUR style that won all of us. From the very first listening, all songs are immediately remembered. Simply amazing melodies. That only there is a hymn of pirates Under Jolly Roger or Raw Ride, which can be heard rushing on a car (motorcycle) at a speed of speed, and the rest of the disk is dedicated to piracy. An important detail and the fact that the disk lasts slightly less than 40 minutes, leaving no impression of monotony and tyagomotina. Of course the albums that came out later than this creation were more abruptly, but it's a masterpiece, like other discs. In general, all who have not heard Running Wild begin to get acquainted with the group can safely from this disc.