Album Rating: 4.0
It's a bit too clean sounding though. The guitar tone is awesome though
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Album Rating: 4.0
surgical steel arguably sounds even cleaner than this though....?
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Album Rating: 4.0
I didnt praise SS production though?
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Album Rating: 4.0
""This album's production/mixing is too weak and flaccid to be better than Surgical Steel" - Kind of agree, although I do think some songs have got a real hard hitting feel to them"
this you?
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Album Rating: 4.0
I was commenting on Heartworks production, didnt say a word about SS production. I'd offer a Where's Wally book but i don't own one sadly
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Anyway, I have the remastered High Dynamic Range version from Bandcamp and it kills Surgical Steel. "
I'm curious now. Production wise it kills SS anyway, i prefer SS as an album though
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Anyway, I have the remastered High Dynamic Range version from Bandcamp and it kills Surgical Steel."
I will have to get my hands on that! I generally like to stick w/the original mixes, but I feel like as an album that produced with the intention of sounding more clean, whatever sheen the High Dynamic Range version provides will definitely elevate the listening experience.
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fwiw all “high dynamic range” means is that they reduced the loudness and compression so that it’s closer to what the original master tapes probably sounded like.
all dynamic range is is the distance between the loudest and quietest parts of a recording, and a lot of newer music gets “brickwalled” to sound as loud as possible on poor quality portable listening devices. the remaster probably just messed with the levels, I doubt it’s a new mix.
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Album Rating: 4.0
ahhhhh okay i gotcha, appreciate you both for breaking it down a bit more for me.
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it’s def worth a listen, brickwalling sucks and the difference is usually fairly apparent as long as the original master recording wasn’t compressed too hard out of the gate.
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Album Rating: 3.5
as a collector though, those earache FDR reissues are pretty lame. digipak, no liner notes
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Album Rating: 4.0
Dude don't get me started with that. I bought the latest FDR reissues of Altars of Madness and Wolverine Blues, and the bastards didnt even include the lyrics, let alone some liner notes.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Fuck. That.
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Album Rating: 3.5
ya thats fuckin cds in 2022 though man. sucks but i guess this is what we get, these companies cant afford to spring for a goddamn jewel case and a booklet anymore. even most of those deluxe editions from rich ass well established bands ends up being fuckin flimsy cardboard. maybe once the retro cd boom happens theyll start using jewels again but then collecting cds at that point will also kinda suck cause whoever comes after the zoomers will drive up the fuckin prices the same way millennials and zoomers drove up the price of vinyl and enabled the existence of $40 180 gram vinyl reissues at walmart
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Album Rating: 4.0
2022 is all about tape and vinyl if we are being honest
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Album Rating: 3.5
oh i know im saying when cd inevitably experiences the same "retro is cool" resurgence thing you see with vinyl and tapes right now. cds are already getting more expensive as sales have gone up since the pandemic and pretty soon kids who were born in like 2008 will have fond memories of seeing the last cds their parents ever bought and will want to start purchasing physical media. these people wont be able to afford vinyl or tapes so theyll get cds. dudes our age who sold all their cds to go digital will start repurchasing expensive reissues and original cds from the 80s and 90s will skyrocket, as they already have been for some time now. look up an original copy of any random early 90s death metal album, youll see the OG CD is worth way more than whatever vinyl reissue dark descent just put out
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Album Rating: 4.0
"ya thats fuckin cds in 2022 though man. sucks but i guess this is what we get, these companies cant afford to spring for a goddamn jewel case and a booklet anymore"
Most albums still ship with both of those
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Album Rating: 3.5
ive bought a shit ton of cds this year and most of the new releases were digipaks. i was quite pleased that the intestine baalism reissue from sewer rot was jewel case but thats cause that kyle messick guy is a CD freak who owns like 6000 death metal cds and appreciates the art
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Album Rating: 3.5
but like those eucharist reissues i got were just digipaks, woulda rather paid extra and just got an OG 93 copy of velvet creation
some other new releases ive picked up in 2021/2022 were zappa 88 the last US live show, some archival allan holdsworth stuff. the gentle giant free hand steven wilson remix was a digipak, luckily i got the jewel case 2 albums in one thing that has free hand AND interview as well so i can be a true nerd and compare both releases (havent done that yet)
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Album Rating: 3.5
lemme think of some more. i ordered violence unimagined by CC and it was digipak but at least its got liner notes and art
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