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Review Summary: Impending Doom get their own tribute band! Creations is another colorful-shirt, breakdown band hitting the Christian music scene. They "hail" from Sydney, Australia, and claim to be bringing the light into the darkness by playing the "heaviest" music, with the "heaviest" message. If you are looking for a description of the band's sound, just imagine Impending Doom's newest album "The Serpent Servant," except with...well, less songs. Creations is simply a carbon copy of Impending Doom. Everything from the Drop Zero tuned guitars, to the "Terror Goes Guttural" vocal style. The only differences present themselves in negative ways. For instance, Creations uses whiny talking sections, and also has less blast beats and tremolo picking than Impending Doom.
The album kicks off with "This Is Worship." This song is basically a clean guitar arpeggio that Adam D. from Killswitch Engage wrote 5 years ago. The song then "explodes" into a "vicious" breakdown, but not all hope is lost, the clean guitar comes back over the breakdown. The lead vocalist screams "This is worship!" and in comes your typical wigger-slam breakdown. The next song, "Chosen Generation" is just a longer version of "This Is Worship" except with more vocals and some decent riffs spewed here and there. Next comes "Gaining Ground," and trust me, it is laughable. The track opens with the vocalist screaming "If God is for me, then who can be against me?" and it is hilarious at best, immature and pathetic at worst. After the punishing breakdown following the terrible intro, Creations blatantly rips off the groove in "More Than Conquerors" by Impending Doom (that Impending Doom stole from Meshuggah).
The EP continues in this similar fashion until the ending track "Idols." This track does manage to change up the formula by going into more overdone Killswitch Engage clean guitar, with clean vocals. The track then successfully closes with a Killswitch Engage chorus.
Creations aren't necessarily a bad band, they just do not show any desire to bring something new to the table. They took influence from one or two bands that have made it big by playing simple, crushing music, and released an EP that sounds like nothing more than a cover. Perhaps this is why Creations remains unsigned.
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Creations aren't necessarily a bad band by any means
The rest of the review completely contradicts this statement.
The song then "explodes" into a "viscous" breakdown, but not all hope is lost, the clean guitar comes back over the breakdown.
What are you talking about when you say, "explodes" in quotation marks? Are you saying that its completely choppy? If so, then the "viscous" part makes sense. However, if that is your way of thinking, then "viscous" does not need to be in quotation marks. If you're trying to say vicious (brutal) rahter than viscous (choppy, thick, resistant to flow) then that's a major spelling error which took me more time to sort out than to read the rest of the review.
I'd also change that comma before but to a period or a semicolon and rearrange some things.
This track does manage to change up the formula by going into more overdone KSE clean guitar, with clean vocals. The track then successfully closes with a Killswitch Engage chorus.
Please don't reference a band in initial form, especially if you're going to place that same band's name in long-hand (sp?).
And another thing, I realize this is your first review, but for future reference, avoid using "heavy" (and variations of the word) so many times. Also, stop trying to show your sarcasm with so many quotation marks. Their inclusion is occasionally apt, but for the most part, they are lumped together and relatively viscous...
Also, start talking more about the music with adjectives rather tahn comparisons. I've never heard the EP myself, but here is an example of what you could have wrote based on the impressions your review gave me:
"While Creations tries to adopt an intense style, they often just float in a sea of genericism. They exemplify all the faults of the 'slow is heavy' movement, and still come out as another overtly simplistic metalcore outfit. This simplicity and unoriginality lead to a record that is ironic. The harder it tries to be heavy, the more it becomes a bland, uninteresting mess. In the simplest of terms, Ruined is simply another below average metalcore release that fails to pique a listener's interest throughout its duration..."
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Otherwise good review, esp. for a first.
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damn that "major spelling error" was so hard to figure out. Could have just pointed it out an not delved into an entire paragraph of bitching about a simple mix-up.
for example
and it is hilarious at best, immature and pathetic at best
I would take out the "at best" after hilarious
couple of minor mistakes, good review. Bout to check this out for the lol's
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I was looking all over for a way to edit the double "at best" thing, but I don't know how.
EDIT: I figured it out.
Also, if I'm trying to make a point that a band sounds exactly like another band, wouldn't
comparisons be more ideal than adjectives? I mean, when I say Creations is exactly like Impending
Doom, I don't mean it's just because they play watered down metalcore. I mean it's because they
sound EXACTLY LIKE Impending Doom.
Another thing, posting that paragraph and saying that it's something "I could've written" is
basically one of the douchiest things I've ever seen someone do.
But thanks for the constructive criticism too!
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Another thing, posting that paragraph and saying that it's something "I could've written" is
basically one of the douchiest things I've ever seen someone do.
It was better written. Also, you started a sentence with "but". ; )
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"Creations is another colorful-shirt, breakdown band hitting the Christian music scene. They "hail" from Sydney, Australia, and claim to be bringing the light into the darkness by playing the "heaviest" music, with the "heaviest" message."
Fags
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Yeah, I love starting sentences with "but," even though it's incorrect. But I don't care.
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I understand what you're saying, but there are a lot of people who haven't heard Impending Doom. It is possible to say they're eerily similar to Impending Doom while using adjectives in the same review. I saw the former and not the latter, so that's where I'm coming from.
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Rationalist is being kind of a dick today. Anyway, I thought the review was fine, especially for a first.
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Curseworship, I'm not a dick today, I'm a dick everyday.
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this really does sound exactly like Impending Doom. But worse.
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Holy shit this is awful....
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lol @ wigger slam breakdown.
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great album, music doesnt have to be technical if it sounds sick.
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" great album, music doesnt have to be technical if it sounds sick. "
What makes you think that all we care about is technicality here?
This album brings nothing new to music and does nothing to expand it's genre.
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This is seriously fucking awful. One of the few CDs where I've ever stopped it before it finished and quite literally thrown it across the room.
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These guys are such cool dudes in real life. It's too bad their music sucks massively.
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thos album blows dick. the newer album(the gospel) is way better. this cd blows.
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