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| Decapitated ranked
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Winds of Creation
Bar Way to Salvation a rock solid collection of tight, aggressive, and still fairly groovy tech death tracks. Great riffs, neatly arranged, decently produced, incredible musicianship. I reviewed this recently so go read that if you care to read up. | | 2 |  | Decapitated
The Negation
Probably the best marriage of the groovier and more technical aspects of the band's sound. Compared to Nihility it feels a bit more intense and aggressive, especially on tracks like The Fury and Long-Desired Dementia (the latter might actually be the best Decapitated song imo) | | 3 |  | Decapitated
Organic Hallucinosis
A little darker and angrier sounding than The Negation, but with a bit less technical flair and somewhat less consistent songwriting as a result. Still very strong and with a lot of interesting atmospheric moments such as the mid-course riff of Post (?) Organic and the latter half of the opening track. | | 4 |  | Decapitated
Nihility
I think Nihility struggles to capture the strengths of the band's 2 core sounds compared to Winds of Creation and The Negation, and is stranded somewhere between without as clear a direction. There are certainly strong tracks like Names, Spheres of Madness, ect, but the songwriting feels a little more mid-paced and the groovier aspects don't feel as well integrated yet. The production is also pretty bad by the band's standards, especially the weak drum tones. | | 5 |  | Decapitated
Anticult
Faster and more aggressive than Blood Mantra, and with a cool bluesy groovy edge that makes it a lot more fun on a moment to moment basis than their other albums following their accident. It's somewhat limited by its style but there are definitely some really hooky parts and it knows when to restore some intensity, like on One-Eyed Nation. | | 6 |  | Decapitated
Carnival Is Forever
One of their shortest albums but full of flab and repetition, Carnival is hard to really recommend because despite lots of the tracks having strong parts, they're buried behind overly simplistic or uninteresting parts, like on 404 or A View From The Hole. There are some good tracks to take from it though, like The Knife, United and Pest, which are relatively immediate and ditch most of the baggage. | | 7 |  | Decapitated
Blood Mantra
This album is boring and overly simplistic in a rather unnatural sounding way. Compared to Anticult it feels slower and more sluggish, without the fun embellishments and energy in the performance. The production feels a bit blunt as well, and the tracks all feel too long for how few ideas crop up in them. A few standout moments on a couple of tracks but this album is mostly embarrassingly dull and uninspired. | |
NightOnDrunkMountain
04.05.20 | I also think the first three are the best. I might have put Carnival Is Forever a bit higher, but your comments on it are correct. | Madbutcher3
04.05.20 | I like Carnival largely because of the production and some of its cool riffs but it is a bit of a slog for such a short album | BAT
04.05.20 | i've slept on their 3 new albums despite seeing them for like each album cycle, should i try carnival or anticult? annnd yeah winds is probably my favorite, jammed nihility a bunch in the day buuut those fucking triggers are still ugggg | Madbutcher3
04.06.20 | Anticult is a good fun album and I would recommend it. Carnival is ehhh, got a few good tracks to check out though | hexfix93
08.12.20 | Sick ranking, pretty close to mine actually. I used to like The Negation more than WoC but lately I've been digging WoC a lot more. Nihility and OH are probably on equal footing for me these days. |
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