Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah I hear you, there is no spectacular moment, just decent to poor unfortunately.

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

This is overrated

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

LIVIN HARDCORE RADICULT





No, this album is as bad as everyone says.

Your whole description of the music is that it is death metal with industrial influences that isn't catchy. Oh, and one song has gang vocals. So what exactly does this sound like? I'm sure you're aware that there are different styles of both genres.

Also, you bring up Rammstein a lot as an industrial band, but I'd hesitate to label them as industrial after their second album, and they also have changed they're sound drastically. Are you trying to say this sounds like Herzeleid era Rammstein with the awkward, thin, and cheap sounding synths or Reise, Reise era with a focus on more organic sounds and strings.

Are you trying to troll everyone or do you just not know anything about the band you're referencing or the band you're reviewing?

Nice to see a reviewer who sees the good in this album

Album Rating: 2.0

WHY MAN,WHY

its so good guys why cant you see it

"Without a shadow of a doubt, Illud Divinum Insanus has to be the most controversial metal release of 2011 thus far."

"Controversial" would mean there's a substantial amount of disagreement over the album. Which there isn't, because anyone with half a brain can tell this is utter shit. Way to be the annoying "gotta have a different opinion from everyone else" guy.

Album Rating: 3.0

"This is overrated"



how can something that is hated by virtually everyone be overrated?



Well apart for some people here :D



http://www.smnnews.com/2011/06/02/musicians-comment-on-new-morbid-angel-album-illud-divinum-

insanus/

Pretty sure he was being facetious.

Album Rating: 2.5

Onerion: Erm yes I do happen to know about both bands. Big fan of Rammstein whilst I do enjoy listening to Morbid Angel. Yes there are several genres of Death Metal but a. Going into a description of every genre influence would be overly complicated and B. Morbid Angel were a pioneer of the death metal genre, they played straight up death metal and in those moments on here that is how I saw it, plain death metal. And with Rammstein, it is more of a big sounding industrial sound like Rammstein do, not referencing to different periods of them as there is only so much room to write a review about, and besides other than some subtle differences overall there isn't huge differentiation over Rammstein's catalogue.

Album Rating: 2.5

hyperbore: I say it is controversial because I HAVE SEEN massive debate about the album. Look on here and some rate it highly, some lowly and are massively critical of it. OneMetal rated it rather highly and took some flak for doing so when its review is an opinion piece. I did not make the idea of it being controversial up, I did some research other than looking at this and thinking hmmm most people on here think it is shit.

Album Rating: 2.5

and also hyperbore: Way to go to be the annoying guy who has a different opinion? So I'm annoying because I made my own opinion rather than looking at what everyone else said and agreeing with it??

You didn't agree with everyone else at all, you made sure to inform us it's not as bad as "we think" it is, and that anyone who treats it like the dogshit it is must be trollin'. Which also makes you a passive-aggressive faggot.

As for OneMetal and some other people rating it highly, I didn't say everybody hates it. I said people who have half a brain hate it, due to a capacity to identify a lack of quality. That stands. There's always going to be a few retards milling about.

Album Rating: 2.5

If you have read anything I have posted here then you will see that I never once said EVERYONE who hates this album is a troll, I said that trolls WOULD react to what I said, and they have. If you look carefully, I don't have a problem with people who come on and say yeah I don't like it, I have a problem with those who tell me I am wrong for thinking what I do about this album. And I think people such as OneMetal, and other journalists I have seen who DO have some positivity to say about have a more knowledgeable opinion to me and others if I am perfectly honest.

Album Rating: 1.0

i tried to make this point to you earlier...but that didn't work...

Album Rating: 2.5

??? sorry guys but I cannot actually see the points you are making, considering that I never actually said what you said I did, aka, that everyone who dislikes this album is wrong, what I said was the select group who will shout to the helm that this is shit and shout at those who disagree with them. Which I have to say a couple of you have done here, not everyone who has disagreed with me, just the few. Hence my phrases such as "those elitists" rather than actually saying everyone who disagrees IS an elitist.

Except had you cut the crap about being this albums sole defender against the hordes of mindless trolls who secretly think this album is good you only have a paragraph with no explanation at all. After reading your review I am left completely clueless as to what it sounds like. Even changing "death metal" to "old school death metal" makes a large difference on how I view this album having not heard it, and the whopping two words it adds really makes the review too long to read.
Also, if you can't hear a substantive difference between the different eras in Rammstein's career you know jack about music. Sometimes music isn't defined by what instruments and chords the musicians are playing. Is this album organic feeling or cold and mechanical? Are the guitars heavily distorted, fuzzy, cutting, trebly? Are the drums a standard drum kit or are they triggered to play more mechanical effects? Is the bass audible, clicky, full, distorted? Is the feel of the music more quick or more plodding? Do the guitars chug away on the lowest strings or are there runs and more complex patterns present in the music? Does the album make you want to get up and break shit or reflect on the musicianship and bask in the songs?

The point of a review is to describe the album and explain what works and what doesn't work. It is not the point of a review to tell people who rate the album differently that they are wrong. Unfortunately you focus on the second not the first and can't seem to take the criticism for it either.

Album Rating: 2.5

I can take the criticism fine, but I don't particularly like being accused of doing something that I am not doing, for example claiming everyone who dislikes the album is wrong and a troll because I never said that whatsoever. I appreciate people telling me what they don't like about my writing, and for example your comments about my musical analysis, which I will give you maybe I am lacking a bit. My knowledge of musical technicality isn't that strong, for example I couldn't tell you if they are on the lower strings or whatever so that's a point maybe I should work on but at the same time I don't think its completely necessary mate. Yes there is a substantive change over Rammstein's career but not so huge as to claim they play a different style, you could listen to both periods and its undeniably Rammstein, all played in a big arena ready style which I feel Morbid Angel at times replicate (well try to).

Actually, you did, by quite clearly implying that said "elitists" (presumably you were referring to people with decent taste) hate it because it has clean production and challenges boundaries. As opposed to, because it fucking sucks in every way imaginable.

MOAR passive-aggressive faggotry:
"If you have read anything I have posted here then you will see that I never once said EVERYONE who hates this album is a troll, I said that trolls WOULD react to what I said, and they have."
I.e., I'm intentionally saying moronic things, because that way I know people will call me out on my bullshit, at which point I can claim they're just unhappily bored people with nothing better to do than fuck with me.

"I don't have a problem with people who come on and say yeah I don't like it, I have a problem with those who tell me I am wrong for thinking what I do about this album."
I.e., respect my opinion even though I'm incapable of even considering yours is anything but a troll.

"And I think people such as OneMetal, and other journalists I have seen who DO have some positivity to say about have a more knowledgeable opinion to me and others if I am perfectly honest. "
I.e., your opinion doesn't mean shit but I'm too much of a coward to say so outright; instead I'll just include a "polite" disclaimer to "let you know" that my lack of courtesy is merely an expense in the name of honesty. So it's not my fault.

"sorry guys but I cannot actually see the points you are making, considering that I never actually said what you said I did, aka, that everyone who dislikes this album is wrong, what I said was the select group who will shout to the helm that this is shit and shout at those who disagree with them."
I.e., I'm now going to stick my fingers in my ears and go LALALALALALA kthxbai

Did you grow up in an abusive household? Did your parents severely punish you any time you expressed disagreement of any kind? Why else would be so fearful of just having a differing opinion without needing to recourse to the sort of snide bullshit that makes http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ so infuriating/hilarious?