I love horrible production, is this worth my time?
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Good album and such, but you should mention that Buried by Time and Dust is a Mayhem cover.
These guys are good, they are up there with Darkthrone in the whole extremely raw, cut to the bone production black metal.
[QUOTE=Well_Respected_Man]I love horrible production, is this worth my time?[/QUOTE]
If you like black metal, then yes. If you haven't heard black metal, then I don't think you get what bad production means. bad production = recorded on a 4 or 8 track recorded, recorded and no production means at all. They record it in a crappy studio and just slap it straight to a cd and call it good.
Also sometimes recorded out in like a forest or something...
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My theory is that black metal bands record their stuff on answering machines.
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[QUOTE=Fast Fingers]it wouldn’t be as “tr00” if it were clear[/QUOTE]
I know this a feature of lots of black metal, but why?
If they wanted to get their scary or whatever messages across, all they need is a well written song to do that. When it sounds like ****, it just detracts from the song, you dont even know what it's about is because it sounds so bad. This is one of the main reasons I cant listen to black metal (the other being fast drumming).
You did raise the point about them covering up stuff, I dont know if that's the case, but I'll never understand how/why it became a tradition to have awful production.
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The concept of actually trying to make something bad is one that I laugh at.
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This album is a 5/5
The production is so poor because it adds to the atmosphere. Most 'raw' black metal bands (Darkthrone, Mayhem, Marduk etc etc) are all about creating a cold, gr1m atmosphere, their constant non muted chords, haunting, repetitive melodies help do this, but the production in particular helps immensly
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[QUOTE=Well_Respected_Man]I love horrible production, is this worth my time?[/QUOTE]
Well you can see for yourself!!!
http://www.metalwhore.com/1349_lib.html It has Manifest up for download, which I think is the best song on the CD
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I downloaded it, I'm going to listen to it soon, just not while everyone's in the room, I don't want to scare them.
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1 Download song
2 Crank speakers
3 Play loud, satanic music and scare everyone!!
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Manifest really is a good song. It makes me think of pirate metal. The galloping drums are always cool. I like Darkthrone better by the way.
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[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]Well you can see for yourself!!!
http://www.metalwhore.com/1349_lib.html It has Manifest up for download, which I think is the best song on the CD[/QUOTE]
[FONT=Lucida Console]- I liked it, awesome.[/FONT]
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Good review. This album is excellent. One of my favourite Black Metal Albums. I find the terrible production goes with the music.
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The drums sound ok but everything else is quite yucky. I think you guys overexaggerated the production though. It's not that bad.
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I prefer Beyond the Apocalypse because the production is better there.
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Good review, i also prefer 'Beyond the apocalypse' over this.
Frost is a beast.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Not bad. I love this album. Sometimes when I listen to Darkthrone the production gets to me, but I never seem to mind this.
And I still have yet to get Beyond the Apocalypse...
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I got BtA, and I love it. Is the production on BtA better than Liberation? If not, its not that bad, I've heard a lot worse. And Frost is great on drums, he doesn't just blast away, he adds creativity and style into his playing which is really cool, and from what I've heard so far pretty rare in BM. Also, I think its cool how they add slow parts, and change the tempo, instead of just playing the same thing over and over and over and over again.
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Frost is really good. He makes Manifest the awesome song it is. Manifest is Pirate metal, I'm convinced. BtA has better production than this too.
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Where do you pull 'Pirate' metal from?? There is a genre called 'Viking' metal but that can pretty much be any genre at all, but with lyrical themes that discuss old viking tales (or something, I'm not too knowledgable on the subject). Since Manifest's lyrical themes are about darkness and destiny, it cannot be Viking or 'Pirate' metal.
That said, it's a rockin' song
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Anyone played the Curse of Monkey Island game? When they're on the ship and the crew is singing, thats what I always picture when I hear Pirate Metal :lol:.
Anyways, weren't the Vikings kinda pirates? They used ships to get around, plundered the Europeans, and liked gold. I read somewhere that Vikings were pirates, but I dunno.
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