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| 2.0 poor | Jared Floryan | October 30th 14 |
Otep Shamaya and the twisted, egotistical world living inside her head concoct an incredibly weak record that is Atavist. The contributions of the band lineup are largely restricted to giving off as much grit as possible while sacrificing varied songwriting, thereby being pointless. Otep's vocals pack a ferocious aura, though she also comes across as self-indulgent and irritable - if "Baby's Breath" and "Bible Belt" are of any indication. This fifth studio album is an overall dull effort which truly started bringing up the question: is this blonde-haired, self-centered, conniving whore still relevant regarding heavy metal?
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| 2.0 poor | STIGMATIZED | May 15th 22 |
Your growls were bad on STCM: and then you decide to make an album dedicated to growling??? Otep's
vocal low point, sounds absolutely horrendous here. The rest of the album is basically faux-death
metal that is pretty ineffectual.
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| 0.0 | Exhorder | January 8th 13 |
Another solid installment in Otep's discography that gets them back on track after the trainwreck their last album turned out to be. Its not quite the be all end all release but its definitely a refreshing blast of metal with a lot of death influences.
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| 4.0 excellent | FrankieEmpire | July 18th 11 |
Shamaya is fucking back with another excellent and to-your-face album.rIf you haven't heard of 'em, it's about time you did. They're basically a four-piece band that plays a mixture of hardcore and nu metal. Maybe even a slight touch of death metal, if you review the shit song by song. The lyrical themes are mostly women abuse, problems of society and rants about bad regimes. But what puts them above the rest are those sick Shamaya's vocals.rHint: She's a chick.rAll in all, it's similar to the previous release and that means quality.
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| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 21st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | frajpg | September 26th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Brabiz | November 10th 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | solrage | July 29th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Oreon | January 10th 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | ElSomni | November 29th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | boff | June 12th 15 |
| 2.5 average | random | June 1st 15 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | October 26th 11 |
| 2.5 average | mar1s | June 30th 11 |
| 3.0 good | tnp101 | April 28th 11 |
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