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Review Summary: Punk-influenced black metal that sounds as good in the basement as it does while recklessly throwing haymakers. Having risen to fame with Bone Awl, He Who Crushes Teeth's newly founded solo project Raspberry Bulbs's music is an album that remains very similar to his roots in punk-riddled black metal. Proof: Finally Burst... With Fluid is a mish-mash of gritty punk styles comprised of extremely simple guitar and drum phrases that are doused in terrible production and punk sensibilities, such as simplicity and monotony. Seeing that this is the case, it becomes clear that his cathartic mid-range shriek is where most of Finally Burst...'s diversity stems from. He distorts his voice several times on the midsection of the album before bringing it back to its original form – which is an equally satisfying technique, just more raw and vigorous. As well, both his phrasing and pitch undergo enough subtle changes for those hyper-analytic music freaks out there – which, as most know, is not something generally affiliated with either distortion-happy black metal or crusty, crusty punk.
These defining quirks keep himself apart from his contemporaries, but, admittedly, Finally Burst... is no creative milestone. Conceptually, the EP's most creative element is how even though it is so undeniably raw and simplistic, it's still a force to be reckoned with. For, in execution, Finally Burst... is something so cathartic and energetic that it's hard not to love it, regardless of its compositional drawbacks. It's changes may come few and far between, but with every chord and every howl, Raspberry Bulbs entertains and forges a connection with the listener. And since his music is almost entirely centered around pumping you up with demonic rasps and power chords aplenty, it becomes one of the EP's more prominent features. That's thankfully so because its ability to act as a stimulant is perhaps its most valuable feature. So go ahead, let it help you the next time you need a guide to lead your fist right through the wall.
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Dedicated to Chambered89.
Hope you guys like it. I know I went a little Adam Downer overboard with this but you know watching "Trauma: Life in the E.R." makes every dark crevice to the sacrilegious krieg-ness of black metal an astounding, philosophical thing.
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album is soo fucking awesome
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I might have to check this out now.
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Is the review equally awesome Dryden? Because if not all changes will have to wait seeing as I'm tired and need to be up early tomorrow. Eight hours of sleep, here I come.
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didnt read
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review's all right but your attempts at articulating black metal ideology seems amateurish and brings the review down
black metal isn't just about blasphemy and anti-theology, black metal is anti-society, anti-mainstream, ani-standard, and it just happened to be that the easiest way for most bands to express this is through satanic and anti-christian themes
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I'll burst with fluid in your face
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Nice review man. I'll be checking these guys out today.
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i just can't get into this guy. i bought the lone gunman tape, listened twice, and have absolutely no desire to listen again. ill more than likely end up selling it. are this and the other one better than lone gunman, by chance? also, i don't know if they're entirely comparable, but i like mata mata better.
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review's all right but your attempts at articulating black metal ideology seems amateurish and brings the review down
black metal isn't just about blasphemy and anti-theology, black metal is anti-society, anti-mainstream, ani-standard, and it just happened to be that the easiest way for most bands to express this is through satanic and anti-christian themes
I said in the review that I was generally speaking - for brevity's sake I might have resorted to a few stereotypes but I don't know if it's that large of a deal. Should I emphasize the whole "generally speaking" portion or should I add on a little bit with those examples without expanding the review a whole lot further?
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you could expand on it but there's just too much to talk about, and unless you really know the specifics of the exact scene this band is from, i wouldn't bother - with bands like this one, it's really no use trying to compare them 'black metal' overall because that's sort of like trying to distinguish one chinese person out of all the rest
definitely mention the combination of punk and black metal, but using examples of other bands (especially ones that may be geographically or stylistically linked to this one) rather than loose stereotypes would be better
you normally write well it was just the broadness of some of the things you were saying that bugged me, they were very general and amateurish, which i think strikes a chord with a record that is both very obscure and genre-wise unimportant
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Okay well I have to leave now but hopefully the small changes I made will at least help. I'll probably re-write the intro when I get back. Thanks.
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have only listened to the Lone Gunman tape, how does this compare?
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are this and the other one better than lone gunman, by chance? also, i don't know if they're entirely comparable, but i like mata mata better.
i like this one alot better than lone gunman mostly because this one is basically a straight forward punk tape. i'd say i'd like mata mata more too even though they are totally different from this.
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yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, but for some reason, my mind tends to lump these lo-fi punk infused bm (or whatever) bands together. maybe ill check this and the other one out before i totally give up on 'em.
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have only listened to the Lone Gunman tape, how does this compare?
A longer more punky version of that, essentially.
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Bumped up to a 3.5. Definitely liking this more than I did. Not anything excellent, but still really good.
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get namaste by trash dog. you might like it more than this even though there's not any bm.noisier, much much much more technical and streamlined than this, but still in this vein.
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note to self: change review
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get namaste by trash dog. you might like it more than this even though there's not any bm.noisier, much much much more technical and streamlined than this, but still in this vein.
Hmmm sounds interesting. I'll look into it soon.
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