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| 0.0 | FilthyBorgir | January 2nd 11 |
omg is this album so average, every song sounds the same. The main reason why, is that the vocalist has the same tone of a melodic edge consistently throughout the entire album. With the instruments they're actually really good, if they got a new singer that can put a melodic edge to the music then they'll be good or if their singer improves, because Threat Signal does have potential to make a hard hitting album. Bottom line is that Vigilance gets really boring really quick.
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| 2.5 average | CrazyFool84 | June 10th 11 |
When Threat Signal burst out of a virtually nonexistent metal scene in the filth that comes to mind when hearing Hamilton, Ontario and into a position to start getting signed to labels and finding themselves supporting some of their musical idols in the process, it was pretty exciting for Canadian metal fans, especially those of us born in that area, to see some of the boys making it out into the big world of melodic death metal. The band’s first release was a pretty stellar combination of various influences of the band, resulting in pretty entertaining metal music; unfortunately, shortly after this release, the majority of the band (in fact, all but vocalist Jon Howard remain from the original lineup) decided they couldn’t work with their singer or something in that vein and moved on. While the vocals were a nice draw to this first record, the instrumentation was what I was really in it for. Upon these events unfolding, I figured the band was done (for me anyway) and I would go on my continuous search for new music all the same. This would not be the case, as three years later the band come back with “Vigilance”, comprised of (obviously) completely new members (minus the aforementioned vocalist), but retaining much of the sound of the debut outing. While this might sound pretty good at first, really it adds up to a different group of musicians attempting to replicate the hodgepodge “Threat Signal sound”. The record isn’t a total waste of time, as a few tracks should manage to entertain at least fans of the band’s work, but a listener can’t help but sigh at another example of band chemistry that just can’t quite stick.
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| 3.5 great | Halez | June 1st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eazy | January 30th 19 |
| 3.0 good | heck | July 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | boff | November 29th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | February 10th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Majkl | May 25th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Andrew | May 19th 16 |
| 3.0 good | ngk44 | August 14th 15 |
| 3.0 good | ANJ45 | June 2nd 14 |
| 3.5 great | Thibs | January 17th 14 |
| 3.5 great | YaelPol | December 26th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ludis | August 31st 13 |
| 2.0 poor | Hati | August 1st 13 |
| 3.5 great | Aladin | April 5th 13 |
| 3.5 great | YUJOS | December 20th 11 |
| 3.5 great | bakor | October 12th 11 |
| 3.0 good | thecwo | April 30th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Luffy | February 5th 11 |
| 2.5 average | TheStig | October 6th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Fobeus | May 12th 10 |
| 3.0 good | siGz | January 29th 10 |
| 3.5 great | met65 | November 14th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | Phantom | September 11th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | mcisaac | September 10th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | X3ni92 | September 8th 09 |
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