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manosg
Emeritus
March 16th 2014


12714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"Nice idea but it would be abused just like the pos/neg system."



Yeah I agree. Negs should be justified imo. If you don't justify a neg, you can't click the no button.

Keyblade
March 16th 2014


30810 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Sputpolitikz

Mongi123
March 16th 2014


22443 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Great rev man as always. You see this almost always happens when someone states an opinion not in the majority and that really needs to change.

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
March 16th 2014


11508 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

There are only two things that hurt this album, and they just so happen to be enough to derail a decent chunk of the experience: the refrains and the production



I respect your opinion Brendan, but I strongly disagree.



The refrains are among the (many) attributes that make this album what it is. The chorus of "Empty Words" (one random example) is easily classified among the most intense recorded music I've heard.



About the sound production:



Back in the '90s, sound producers had a solid clue about what it meant to have "heavy guitars in an extreme metal album" (some of them still do nowadays, but they are too few in numbers). If we take into account that Death are shredding in this album for the sake of a more atmospheric death/thrash metal sound, the balance between distortion and clarity is near-perfect here. Cannibal Corpse are shredding too, but their sound is "100% Morrisound", hence most of the time their playing is hardly perceivable. I'm not saying CC should do otherwise, but as I wrote earlier, in Symbolic Death opted for a more atmospheric sound, due to the phenomenal lead guitars, and the "kindly bent to free us" rhythm section which took some artistic loans from latin rock outfits (Gene Hoglan said it in a recent interview at Metaltalk). One example of really weak sound production is the recently released Hannes Grossmann solo album, which has some great instrumental extreme metal, dressed with a sound production suitable for melodic hard rock.

Insurrection
March 16th 2014


24856 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah the production is fantastic on this imo

Ryus
March 16th 2014


37885 Comments


one of the best produced metal albums of the 90s yeah

KILL
March 16th 2014


81582 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

so crispy clean!

Geadom
March 16th 2014


3765 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Production's pretty good, agree.



Album is overrated and has a lot of refrains, agree.





I DONT MEAN TO DWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLL

TPM731
March 16th 2014


240 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I suppose I get what you mean, but I still believe people should learn to suck it up; I mean if they get this mad over the view or some guy on the internet I don't even want to imagine what they do in real life. Not everybody thinks their holy grail is made of gold, and that's just something they're going to have to deal with. [2]



If only most of the sputnik populace understood this concept.

CalculatingInfinity
March 16th 2014


9941 Comments


Or the internet at large.

BlackLlama
March 16th 2014


2201 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Out of their entire discog. this is probably the album I jam the least. Which isn't saying all that much hahaha.



I have to be in the mood to listen to this one though, whereas Human or SBG is good to go anytime.

manosg
Emeritus
March 16th 2014


12714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@TPM731



You definitely have a point there but from my experience Sputnik's user base is one of the best I've

interacted with. Granted, you always have the "album X is better than album Y" which I've done

too but overall there are a lot of cool guys around and people rarely reach to extremes when it comes

to abuse.

TPM731
March 16th 2014


240 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@mansog: Yeah, I can't say I'm in love with the sputnik userbase at large, but they could be a whole lot worse. Just take a quick trip to Metal Archives and you'll see that Sput has got it relatively easy (aside from some people).

climactic
March 16th 2014


22912 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

if they get this mad over the view or some guy on the internet I don't even want to imagine what they do in real life



nothing

KILL
March 16th 2014


81582 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

but nothing is everything

Tyrael
March 16th 2014


21108 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

whattt

ultimatethrasher
March 16th 2014


614 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

You can't go wrong with this album or any of Deaths albums.

ultimatethrasher
March 16th 2014


614 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

You can't go wrong with this album or any of Deaths albums.

emester
March 16th 2014


8271 Comments


Its pretty cool to hear an opinion about this that isnt a five. solid review

NordicMindset
March 16th 2014


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

damn I missed a lot



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