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| 3.5 great | Bedex | July 26th 20 |
Most of my general comments from the demo apply here: this is well produced for demo material, it's full of idea and good riffs, but its value mostly lies in how exciting it is for their hypothetical future output that actually never came to be, while as a record in and of itself it is cool but not something I'd recommend or keep in my library really. I have to say I am surprised at how well it holds the distance, and the added tracks all feel at least as good as the best demo track (3) or better. 1-3's the demo, 4 has cool tech riffage in the intro and is already better than anything on the demo, 5 is as good as 3, 6 lines up some great riffs followed by not so great riffs (a common theme). Then 7-8 are what truly elevates this a point above the demo, with 7 being fast and aggressive all the way through which I dig (it's kind of a jam actually), while 8 ruptures completely and delightfully from the rest with a clean guitar interlude that has fantastic prod for its age and demo material status. Reminds of some AAL almost. 9-10 were recorded later on (I can't really talk about construction here since this is a compilation), and the voice changes but not for the better imo. The return to riffage on 9 isn't the best, but again both tracks do also boast some pretty sweet riffz - a lot of them actually, especially some of the tech hints on 10. 3.6
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| 3.5 great | I was living in constant fear of someone neg bombing all my reviews cause I know how many detest me | May 17th 20 |
40 minutes of pure, primo quality old school semi-technical semi-melodic Swedish death metal. You get the three tracks from the excellent 1992 demo, a faster tempo re-recording of one of them AND another 6 previously unreleased original songs. Let's not mince words here, these guys are no Gorguts, they're no Atheist, they're no Grotesque. But their songwriting is easily a couple cuts above most bands in the scene/genre. Of the "new" tracks, Failed Humankind and Ancient Fall stand out in particular.
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| 3.5 great | remi | May 12th 20 |
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