Album Rating: 5.0

Ok, I'll try to be a bit more diplomatic:



Fuck everyone who negged this only because they disagree with my assessment of the album.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

@ numbskull,



or maybe just happy

think I'm just happy





I'm glad people enjoy UTL, I don't though. Are you too much of an ass to get that? seems that way with your retarded review & reaction to criticism.



I wanted to love this album but I just don't, I got the fanpack edition (nice bottle opener). I never feel like listening to it, not even one track that does it for me. Fair play to MH for trying something different but its not for me this time (first time since 1994).

Album Rating: 5.0

I bet a keg of beer against a glass of lemonade that if MH are still together 5 years from now, their setlist at the time will contain more songs from UTL than from any other album. Because MH will see that those songs get a greater reaction from the audience, so they will keep them in their live shows, whereas other crappy songs will get discarded. So yeah. Most people will have liked UTL more, so you are in the small minority.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

OK, fair bet!



I may be in the minority, just like I was when The Burning red & Supercharger came out, they seemed like MH's natural progression to me. Maybe UTL is too, since Phil & Robb are playing together like back in the Vio-lence days, and they are taking things more & more towards oldschool thrash & less groove.



I listened to UTL once more last night and it left me feeling empty. MH have lost a lot of soul IMO, although they seem to have grown as musicians. Its far too widdly widdly for my liking, but I accept this is exactly why others may like this album.

Album Rating: 5.0

Hafta disagree heavily with that "too widdly widdly" part. Yes, the musicianship on the songs is highly technical, but that didn't take away from their catchiness and memorability. IMHO UTL's songs are the most memorable (not meaning poppy) of MH's discography.

Take a listen to Animals as Leaders. Now, that's empty soulless widdly-widdlying, and it's nowhere close to what Unto the Locust is.

Album Rating: 4.5

If you think this album is bad you aren't listening clearly. I'm not calling it the best like everyone seems to do, just that it is a good listen.



The music may be more melodic but it's also more complex and intricate

Album Rating: 4.0

'Take a listen to Animals as Leaders. Now, that's empty soulless widdly-widdlying'



Wha?

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I'm not saying the album is bad, just average, even if some of it is quite good. Not one song that I'd rate as a classic. There isn't much that is memorable for me, 'parts of 'Pearls before the swine' (the outro is awesome, but its like a short throwback to what MH used to do for fun) 'I am hell' and This is the end' then there's 'who we are' but that is memorable in the bad sense.



'Darkness within' has its moments too, I like that kind of song, but it pales in comparison to MH's very own, I'm your god now, Violate, The burning red, Deafening silence, Descend the shades of night & A farewell to arms.

Album Rating: 3.0

yea

Album Rating: 2.5

Yes, the musicianship on the songs is highly technical, but that didn't take away from their catchiness and memorability.



These guys are far from anything technical. 13 year olds jump on stage with these guys and play their songs so.

Album Rating: 4.0

^ Haha, very true.

These guys are the pinnacle of technical prowess in heavy metal Wizard I mean c'mon

Album Rating: 5.0

UTL may not be ultra-super-duper-speed-of-light technical, but it still is pretty fucking technical, and I can't see how anyone can disagree with that.



As for 13 year old jumping on stage and playing their songs -- eh, they're just doing alright, not really nailing it. Besides, playing + singing at the same time is 100x harder.