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| 4.0 excellent | Fernando Alves STAFF | June 17th 16 |
Filled with great songs like Seventh Seal, Life Is a Mess, Time to Go, Verge of Tragedy or Iron Maiden (enjoyable tribute), Flotsam's eponymous is easily one of their best albums to date. Erik's performance is particularly interesting.
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| 4.0 excellent | Elmo | January 13th 22 |
gud ablum
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| 4.5 superb | Resident Metalhead Piranha | June 30th 17 |
Compared to other releases of 2016, Flotsam And Jetsam's self-titled effort feels like new life has been injected into the band yet feels so familiar at the same time. Much of the credit goes to their golden era guitarist Michael Gilbert who brings back the energy and F&J guitarwork that has been desperately lacking for so many years. Recruiting their No Place For Disgrace bassist Michael Spencer was a smart move too, returning to their more bottom-heavy bass sound in their music once again. Both Mike's presences are fully felt on tunes like the riff-driven "Time To Go" and especially "Monkey Wrench," both of which are late career highlights for the group. Recruiting Jason Bittner of Shadows Fall injected extra fuel to their well aged formula, and puts on an impressive show without stealing the limelight from everyone else. A.K's vocal have aged considerably, but he sounds great here and has a nice lower register. Groovy numbers "Taser" and especially "Smoking Gun" add tasteful variety to the mix, and the latter is also a late career highlight to much surprise given its lack of thrash. "Forbidden Territories" and "Seventh Seal" are the most old fashioned tunes here and masterfully display a long lost feat in their music: branch-off solos. F&J's s/t is perhaps the biggest surprise in metal for 2016, is already one of the band's best albums, and is a terrific display of everything they've done, learned, and perfected throughout the years.
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| 3.7 great | Voivod STAFF | July 17th 16 |
Excluding The Cold, Flotsam and Jetsam erase 20 years of mediocrity, with an album firmly rooted in '80s thrash and classic metal (no wonder why they are still warmly heralded in old school metal lairs such as Greece, namely their 2015 live concert in Athens). The current line-up shreds instrumentally, whereas Erik AK's vocals are still distinguishable from a light year away. Album could have been more of a true rival to the band's classic stuff, should its sound was livelier, more raw. Favorite track(s): Seventh Seal, Iron Maiden, Monkey Wrench.
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| 3.5 great | Trey STAFF | May 20th 16 |
With the constant personnel rotations, it’s always a bit of a surprise when it comes to a new Flotsam and Jetsam release. Sometimes it’s a good surprise and sometimes it’s a little bit of a disappointment. Flotsam and Jetsam’s new self-titled release is definitely a good surprise. It brings back the 80s thrash vibe in a way that even the band’s No Place for Disgrace re-recording couldn’t pull off, and it blends it with the modern moody aggression of The Cold. This blend easily places it in the top 5 of Flotsam and Jetsam’s discography, led by the standout track ‘Verge of Tragedy’. If Ugly Noise made it seem like Flotsam and Jetsam were kind of going through the motions and lacking direction, their self-titled release with returning member Michael Spencer and fresh blood Jason Bittner completely make up for it while proving that sometimes a little member churn can be a good thing.
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| 3.0 good | igi78 | May 22nd 23 |
| 3.0 good | blou52 | September 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | August 21st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | clautom | June 16th 21 |
| 2.5 average | remi | May 2nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | mEyck07 | December 16th 19 |
| 2.0 poor | jmal00 | September 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mac55 | February 27th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Dksou | January 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gocsa666 | February 26th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Prole | November 12th 17 |
| 2.5 average | mursu | November 1st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Robbit | March 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | karo | January 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | December 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vili19 | November 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | UFO | November 23rd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | zero00 | November 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 0ozzy0 | October 4th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | August 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | mifzal | June 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 16Dot | June 22nd 16 |
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