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| 3.0 good | Reviewc0re | July 23rd 17 |
Crushing album. Real shame that there isn't much variation in the vocal performance.
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| 3.5 great | Panzerchrist | July 23rd 17 |
A pretty humble record from one of the most interesting progressive death metal acts since
the genre's inception. The tech and prog aspects are scaled back just a touch, acting
more like flourishes on top of more aggressive, brutal riffs, and while I'd be
hard-pressed to call these songs "straight-forward" (hint: they're not), they definitely
feel more reigned-in; more concentrated, if you will. Fans of the band's debut will
definitely find much to enjoy here, as this album has quite a few similarities. This is
not to say they haven't learned a thing or two since Polarity (Spirit Guide has a distinct
Polarity influence), especially in some of the keyboard passages strewn throughout, as well
as some of the more melodic leads. Quite the contrary, Decrepit Birth are a band evolving
over time, and this is a measured change of sound to set the board back up.
Edit: the covers are bonus tracks for the digipack edition. Calm your shit people.
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| 0.0 | WretchedCacophony | December 4th 17 |
"someone forgot to use a high pass filter on the guitars"rWhy would you want to use a high pass filter? That would cut out the bottom end, and keep the higher frequency band.
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| 3.0 good | GamamJ | July 18th 20 |
For some reason, Decrepit Birth decide to hold back on the technicality, and while mainly the progressive side of their music is still very present, the riffage, leads and soloing is more straight-fprward than before. More focus on brutality like on the first record returns too.
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| 4.0 excellent | twipzdeeauxilia | August 10th 17 |
I expected nothing but in the end really enjoyed the album.
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| 2.5 average | DoctorVelvet | July 28th 17 |
What is with half of the runtime being taken up by covers?
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| 3.5 great | BRAman22 | July 26th 17 |
I used to always think of Decrepit Birth as a tech-death band, but in reality they are more of a progressive death metal. On that note, Axis Mundi is pretty good, being straight forward death metal for the most part while showing their technicality during their progressive segments.
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| 3.5 great | Jeremy Wolfers | July 26th 17 |
someone forgot to use a high pass filter on the guitars
edit: this is a callout. wretched cacophony sir you have messed up my good man. yes that is what a
hi-pass filter does, but the reason it is required is that the bottom end of the guitars has too
much low end resonance and thus muddies up the bottom end of the kicks and bass during sections
with lots of palm muting
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| 0.0 | Pon EMERITUS | July 24th 17 |
Production makes the album a chore and the vocal performance is annoying. Pity, because the riffs are pretty inventive, but good musicianship =/= good album, as this one reiterates. Not sure why they thought having 3 covers at the end was a good idea either.
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| 4.0 excellent | MikeyPalmice | July 23rd 17 |
was expecting a bit more after 7 years, but it's still a great record
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| 4.0 excellent | hatahs | July 22nd 17 |
Their best yet..rMore melodies and grooves..rProbably their least technical to date
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| 4.0 excellent | Teddy23 | August 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | heck | November 29th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 20th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ysveny | November 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | July 10th 19 |
| 3.0 good | hussam | April 30th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Defcol | January 10th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Thibs | December 18th 17 |
| 3.5 great | dvd0bvb | November 28th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Elynna | September 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | mRA | September 13th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Zecke | September 11th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | GhostK | August 3rd 17 |
| 2.5 average | Jeejee | July 31st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | "Tab" | July 29th 17 |
| 3.0 good | hsb | July 25th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Thor | July 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | MO | July 23rd 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Dmax28 | July 23rd 17 |
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