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Review Summary: Although it creates some paths it doesn't finish walking down, Warning is still consistently varied and entertaining. An excellent grind album. Antigama’s Warning is a unique, punishing whirlwind of a grindcore album. It’s loaded with hard-hitting and well-written riffs, entertaining drumbeats of all speeds, and crushing vocals. The album touches upon many an interesting idea, both musically and lyrically. And although a few of these ideas don’t get fully developed, they don’t prevent the album from being the consistently entertaining grindcore outing it is.
Yes, Warning is fast, loud, and heavy, and contains a few very unique aspects that I’ll touch upon later, but perhaps the best thing about this album is how comprehensibly structured the songs are. Even when the longest song (besides the 7-minute ambient closer, “Black Planet”) is just under 3 minutes, the listener can very easily tell that each song has differentiable parts-be it verses, bridges and choruses, or just a collection of verses-and that each part has well-thought out music to go along with it. Even if it’s not typical grindcore that’s characterized by monotonous riffs that seem to all run together, only stereotypical, the structures of the songs on this album are still a breath of fresh air because, at the very least, they shatter that aforementioned notion you may have had in your head.
Some examples of this are the memorable, spacey, dissonant riff that “Jealousy” is centered around, along with the lyric/riff/lyric/riff verse pattern “City” contains, and the breakdown that ends it. “Nightmare,” though, has a breakdown played at a speed rarely found in grind, that is to say, slow. And “Lost Skull” actually has a few, dare I say, catchy stanzas, along with an effect-drenched guitar solo. And just like every other track, it’s littered with fun, brutal riffs. The album’s consistent variation in song structure, and consistent attention to keeping the riffs different and entertaining gives every song its own personality, and makes it so the album is rarely, if ever dull.
But the music on the album isn’t only based around heavy riffing. There are three tracks specifically, that feature nothing that is typically, if ever found in grindcore. They’re all very strange, make-your-ears-perk-up-and-go-”what-the-***” kind of songs. I’m guessing the purpose of them was to, if the album ever did fall down, bring the album back up and keep the listener’s attention. These tracks are “Sequenzia Dellamorte,” “Paganini Meets Barbapapex,” and “Black Planet.” “Sequenzia Dellamorte” is really just an ambient interlude, very quiet and reserved, but eerie at the same time. (The album kicks you right in the face again after this track with “You Have The Right To Remain Violent”). “Paganini Meets Barbapapex” is, in all honesty, a pretty amusing track. It’s an odd, structure-less collection of sounds seeming to be made from all sorts of mediums. I hear cymbals, piano, and guitar, along with a few electronic loops and noises. You really sit back and wonder what the hell you just listened to after this track is over.
And the final of the three songs, “Black Planet,” as I mentioned earlier, is a dark, 7-minute ambient suite that I think is just a bit too epic for this album, even when it has the high honor of being the closer. It’s so trance-inducing that it sounds like it would fit more comfortably on a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, if only it were twice as long.
None of these three tracks seem to make any sense in the context of the album, or seem to fit with the sounds and ideas of the rest of the album; the variety of lyrical topics such as war, religion, artificial civilization and the like. But they’re still pretty fun to listen to on their own- well, fun, or just enticingly perplexing (like a difficult math equation), depending on the listener’s mood.
Antigama’s Warning ends with some untied ends, but this doesn’t hold it back from being a heavy, refreshingly varied, and at times very weird, grindcore album.
Recommended Tracks:
City
Another
Preachers Pray
Lost Skull
Nightmare
Paganini Meets Barbapapex
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awesome album, awesome band
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And the review? haha
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And the review? haha
you are going to hate me....
Your first paragraph should be your summary.
You lack an introduction that gives some backround about you and the album and that outlines your main arguements so that the reader gets a clear understanding of what you are going to talk about.
You lack an intro sentence at the beginning of each paragraph that opens up the main topic of the paragraph.
You lack a concluding sentence which summarizes your main points in the paragraph.
Paragraphs 5 & 6 should be joined (never start a sentence with "and").
Your conclusion is suppose to be a paragraph, not a sentence and lacks a re-stating of your main arguments.
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Your first paragraph should be your summary.
No
You lack an introduction that gives some backround about you and the album and that outlines your main arguements so that the reader gets a clear understanding of what you are going to talk about.
Since when does a review have to start with your personal history? That's right, never
You lack an intro sentence at the beginning of each paragraph that opens up the main topic of the paragraph.
Antigama’s Warning is a unique, punishing whirlwind of a grindcore album
Yes, Warning is fast, loud, and heavy, and contains a few very unique aspects that I’ll touch upon later, but perhaps the best thing about this album is how comprehensibly structured the songs are
But the music on the album isn’t only based around heavy riffing
All intros, even though the second one is a bit of a run on
You lack a concluding sentence which summarizes your main points in the paragraph.
I can list these too if you like
Paragraphs 5 & 6 should be joined (never start a sentence with "and").
And shut the fuck up ButcheredChildren, you had a review deleted yesterday because it was terribly written. So I'm not quite sure what you're doing here handing out useless advice
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I never said the review was bad I just added some advice, geez Deviant read instead of vulturing.
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I'm sorry, did I say that you said the review was bad? Learn to read
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That's avoiding the issue, in fact your premise for my advice being bad is that none of what I said is necessary. I didn't say they were essential in a review.
you had a review deleted yesterday because it was terribly written. So I'm not quite sure what you're doing here handing out useless advice
so because I wrote a bad review all of a sudden my opinion is inferior? Give me a break, talk about a fallacy
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I wish this band was better than good. They have so much potential but they fall into a format that just gets boring. At least this is better than their last album.
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Since when did we become such shitty writers that we had to adhere to every rule of a ninth grade english class.
"And the final of the three songs, “Black Planet,” as I mentioned earlier, is a dark, 7-minute ambient suite that I think is just a bit too epic for this album, even when it has the high honor of being the closer."
Though that sentence does need some serious work. Review ain't bad, but needs some polishing.
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That's avoiding the issue,
No, that was directly answering your little disclaimer
I didn't say they were essential in a review.
then why are you saying things like never, lack and suppose?
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No, that was directly answering your little disclaimer
The subject of this quarrel is whether I was claiming my assertions to be fact or opinion.
then why are you saying things like never, lack and suppose?
Never, lack and suppose are just added assertions to my overall opinion.
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The subject of this quarrel is whether I was claiming my assertions to be fact or opinion.
No it's not. You said "I never said the review was bad" and I was pointing out that I never claimed you did
Never, lack and suppose are just added assertions to my overall opinion.
No. When you're trying to give off advice you don't pass off opinion by trying to incorporate words like never into the equation. Unless you're 5 and saying something like "no, you NEVER draw outside of the lines"
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No it's not. You said "I never said the review was bad" and I was pointing out that I never claimed you did
If you re-read that was given emphasis "after-the-fact" which does not make it the subject.
No. When you're trying to give off advice you don't pass off opinion by trying to incorporate words like never into the equation. Unless you're 5 and saying something like "no, you NEVER draw outside of the lines"
Using your example, I am certain drawing inside the lines is a well known fact as is never beginning a sentence with "and". Unless of course you were never taught this in which case I am confused as to how you gained a highschool diploma.
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If you re-read that was given emphasis "after-the-fact" which does not make it the subject.
Don't try and tell me what I'm arguing you moron
Using your example, I am certain drawing inside the lines is a well known fact as is never beginning a sentence with "and". Unless of course you were never taught this in which case I am confused as to how you gained a highschool diploma.
This isn't a piece of academic writing, and the word "and" is more than adequate as a tool for transition
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Guys, a sentence just has to contain a subject and a verb, and state a complete thought. That's the definition of a sentence.
"And the final of the three songs, “Black Planet,” as I mentioned earlier, is a dark, 7-minute ambient suite that I think is just a bit too epic for this album, even when it has the high honor of being the closer."
Pretty sure that fits the definition of a sentence, even if it does begin with "and." (GASP!)
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Don't try and tell me what I'm arguing you moron
I don't care what you are arguing, it holds little relevance if it deviates from the original arguement.
This isn't a piece of academic writing, and the word "and" is more than adequate as a tool for transition
Sure and while we are at it why not just help continue the butchering of the english language through the use of jargon and newspeak
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I don't care what you are arguing, it holds little relevance if it deviates from the original arguement.
Well seeing as you said "I never said the review was bad I just added some advice" okay I won't.......
Sure and while we are at it why not just help continue the butchering of the english language through the use of jargon and newspeak
Okay. You also spelled argument wrong
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Okay. You also spelled argument wrong
again, irrelevant because it has nothing to do with the subject of the argument, thus it holds no validity.
It was fun arguing with you but this is becoming dry so I will just say that my advice was opinion based and not meant to seem definitive.
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Bye!
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Oh shit man, I completely read it without the "of"...the sentence works. ha ha sorry about that.
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