Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Due to its popularity over the years this album has become the poster child for anyone with a grudge to bear against the flashy side of tech death. It’s really the same few users that feel the need reassert their opinions every year or so

Album Rating: 3.5

every year or so?

that seems like a conservative estimate, it feels like every page to me (I keep checking back just for the chance of fireworks and copypasta, ngl)

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Yes I guess you’re right

Album Rating: 4.5

Album fuckin' rules

Album Rating: 3.5

by the way I'm not even massively enamoured with this (prefer Cabinet) but the first couple of pages here are absolute gold, so many classic users making themselves look silly

Album Rating: 4.5

Simply put, Spawn of Possesion is like having your genitalia slowly mutilated by a rusty chainsaw. Riffs are chaotic and brutal, vocals are roared at unimaginable speeds, and the drums resemble an aural steamroller. While not as spastic and unpredictable as Necrophagist, the band they would most accurately be compared to, Spawn of Possession plays at blinding speeds with plentiful solos and memorable songwriting. Truly one of the forerunners of technical death metal.

>While not as spastic and unpredictable as Necrophagist, the band they would most accurately be compared to

huh

Album Rating: 5.0

The primary issue with this album is that it lacks any sense of dynamic build-up or sense of being able to halfway coherently explore a single idea because nearly every single moment here is intended to be some kind of mindblowing showstopper and extreme display of dexterous gymnastics. The problem however with the Michael Bay approach to songwriting is that when every scene is something exploding or some dudes yelling while firing their uberhightech sci fi guns in bullet time is that all these normally tolerable tricks of the trade pretty much lose all their taste in the same way trying to finish an entire bucket of Halloween sweets in under an hour does; maybe the arpeggiated-neoclassical-phrygian-sweep-chord-shred-whatever-the-fuck-these-are-supposed-to-be-called was fine for the first few times but when you have a few hundred more essentially interchangeable sections each competing to outdo the other with pure wow factor, the effect is lost quickly and you find yourself reaching for the barf bag. In a time when technical finesse has gone from a skill that was once rare and arcane to the everyday and the mundane (or if you're already big on a lot of jazz fusion and progressive rock where these characteristics are built in rather than external additions), that only dulls the taste even further.

Continuing a point from the second paragraph, it's not impossible to make memorable high intensity demanding melodies but they have to carry some sort sense of gravitas them, but the happy-go-lucky emphasis on every melody leading to a trillion or so other barely related iterations constantly robs it of any kind of staying power whether it's prematurely tension destroying sudden flurries of glittery emptiness capping some sections or the groan-inducing wimpiness of the moments when they try to actually have some bona fide aggression but boil down to the most trite dialed in chugs or riffs that simply sound like sped up melodeath filtered through Alvin and the Chipmunks pitch shifting.

Album Rating: 5.0

What this album is, is truly the reincarnation of classical music. When most people think of classical music, aside from the above, they think of the instrumentation (violins, timpani, flute, etc.). Neither is it's defining feature. What makes classical what it is, is every part of the music moving together and yet in it's own direction. That there are many ideas, many things being said all at once, while the greater idea is kept in tact. That, is what this album is. Complex harmonies, multiple rhythms occuring at once, ideas manifesting in many ways. All while painting a broader picture. That is classical music, and that is this album. The darkness, the uniqueness, of this album, are also place it very high up to me. It's something hard to define. I've listened to a great deal of dark music in my life, but it is rare to come across an album so profoundly dark, it just fucking oozes atmosphere. For all it's insane technicality to still have so much emotional depth? That is truly a feat unmatched.

Album Rating: 3.5

'>While not as spastic and unpredictable as Necrophagist, the band they would most accurately be compared to



huh"



English is hard

I might be more gluten intolerant than I thought.

>English is hard

not at all, i just dont think necrophagist are spastic and unpredictable

not sure if theyre the most accurate comparison for SoP either

Album Rating: 3.5

It was definitely an odd comparison / comment in general

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

i mean, we live in a bubble. if you play necrophagist to an average citizen they will certainly find it spastic and unpredictable. within the context of 30+ years of tech death yeah maybe not on that side of the spectrum

> if you play necrophagist to an average citizen they will certainly find it spastic and unpredictable

thats true for 80s slayer also prob

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yes, most likely. and while i wasn't alive when show no mercy, hell awaits, or reign in blood came out, it's a fair bet that in comparison to the majority of metal that was around in their respective time it would be on that side of the spectrum. very easy to view things that way after the ideas on those albums have been emulated and expanded endlessly over almost 40 years



83 saw no parole for rock n roll, melissa, kill em all, piece of mind, court in the act, tokyo blade, holy diver, balls to the wall, deliver us, on the streets, into glory ride, crystal logic, guilty as charged, wild dogs, power & glory, power games, stronger than evil, steeler, fire in the brain, sirens, loose n lethal, headhunter, heavy metal maniac, burn this town, satanic rites, maniac, another perfect day, one nation underground. not many of these albums would i consider more "spastic or unpredictable" than show no mercy

snm wasnt the one i meant but sure

that one has a lot of trad

Album Rating: 3.5

'i mean, we live in a bubble. if you play necrophagist to an average citizen they will certainly find it spastic and unpredictable. within the context of 30+ years of tech death yeah maybe not on that side of the spectrum'

This is absolutely on point of course... but the guys on page one of this thread were commenting in 2012, so they had a lot of post-Necrophagist context available to them. That's where the comment came from after all.

Respect to you Anthracks, you called them all out on the hate back then too. I imagine all the other high scores must've been from lurkers because barely any users with any visibility were defending this, the only other one I even recognise (who was positive) is TheSpirit. Hive mind mentality perhaps? The loudest probably scared 'em all off unless it was commonplace for whole conversations / user's comments to be deleted back then?

Album Rating: 1.0

Captaindooright awarded this a high score back in the day but KILL cyberbullied him out of it