 | Gorod Process of a New Decline
3.7
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| 3.5 great | Infernis | May 21st 09 |
Lacks something. The guitars feel somewhat thin. The heavy parts are heavy, and the driving parts are great...but it's hard to feel like they are fused very well or coherently. While the riffing is tasteful and technical, it's hard to not feel like they're recycled due to Gorod's tendency to shred over sometimes simple rhythmic groove patterns.
Not as captivating as their last effort, but certainly a solid one. Some songs themselves are excellent and some of their best, otherwise...It's a solid album, perhaps somewhat underwhelming considering how great their previous releases were.
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| 1.5 very poor | Bedex | September 28th 20 |
Boy I haven't wanted to stop an album after just a couple tracks in a long long time. This is a concentrate of everything I dislike in death metal. Pointless (endless soloing), tappy tapp arpeggios all the time, squeal vocals, you name it. And this is from A to Z with no intro or outro whatsoever for the album. They are saved from 1.0 tier by the occasional good riff (min 3 on 1, some of 3, the entry riff of 7 for example), some actually ok and less unbearable tracks (still 2.5-3.0 range at most, 4-5, 10-11 maybe), and scarce really nice bits (mostly the intro and outro to 10) that make you wish they used their fantastic musicianship in better ways for the whole record and not just those 20 seconds, but yea pretty much every time something is going well it won't take 20s before the annoying soloing etc starts again. There also some quirky mix things e.g. what the hell is up with 9 at 2:20, but that is quite rare thankfully. Really did not enjoy this one at all except in brief moments of respite. 1.6
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| 3.0 good | GamamJ | July 27th 20 |
Another solid Gorod offering, but their weakest yet. After going in a more complex progressive direction on Leading Vision, Gorod seemingly take a step back on their third offering. Concentrating more on loads of melody, and a more straight-forward style, Gorod bring back some of the awesome neoclassical leadwork and catchy melodies that I felt missed a bit on Visions, but take two steps back on terms of composition.
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| 3.5 great | Insurrection | February 12th 13 |
It's fast, it's heavy, it's progressive, it's got mindblowing instrumentation, and it's technical as all hell. Thing is, it's not Gorod.
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| 3.5 great | Fernando Alves | June 17th 12 |
Not as strong as its predecessor and successor, but still interesting. Programmers of Decline is among their best songs.
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| 4.0 excellent | Niels | August 16th 11 |
Diverted Logic is quite possibly the most annoying song I have ever heard.rOtherwise, this is too awesome
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| 3.5 great | kocZkHa | July 30th 11 |
Guitars are fucking face melting though the long tracks could get a little boring. Still a great album recommended for every metal guy;)
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| 4.0 excellent | Zolrak | June 3rd 11 |
Amazing album. I'm okay with the guitar wankery, the drums are not as "jazzy" and groovy as in the previous album and the vocals sometimes goes to the background after a few songs. The melodies are great (especially on the first two songs for which I'm addicted), but the problem goes on the next two songs, which are kind of awkward, slow-paced and groove driven songs that should've been let near the end; not bad songs but not in the proper order. This is what makes me feel disappointed about the album, that suddenly mid-through the album you feel like it lost its pace and you can't keep following it. BUT if you give it a few listens from "The Path" and forward, you'll find melody, harmony, ambient and progressivity. "A Common Hope" sounds like it could be the first track on Leading Vision, and "Watershed" is clearly their best instrumental.
I don't want to extend a lot more (which I already did =P) but I'll resume: listen after midway the album and you'll find this album has its charm.
By the way, they released their EP trailer and sounds just great! One of the acoustics is a nice version of "Blackout" and I'm looking forward to what they have to offer on that 14 minutes song.
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| 4.0 excellent | toolguitarkid | September 16th 09 |
Excellent songwriting mixed with technical genius. A few drawn out sections. Tons of melody mixed with some dissonance.
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| 3.0 good | GregBP | May 20th 09 |
It's good... but it lacks some of the really interesting parts the previous albums had, like the end of 'Here Die Your Gods' from LV and the awesomeness of 'Intro'/'Gutting Job' from Neurotripsicks.
It's alright, but why bother when LV and Neurotripsicks are exponentially better? I'll need a few more listens to see if anything really pops out at me.
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| 3.0 good | Skyler | May 19th 09 |
Initial listen has left me somewhat underwhelmed.
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| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | July 25th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | MiguelSS | February 26th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Shwany | January 13th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Thranth | August 24th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Trundle | August 3rd 20 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | March 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | zruF | January 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | SuzyC | December 30th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | jfish226 | November 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | xfortinx | February 23rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Enzx | February 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flave | March 1st 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Arolde | November 22nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Soossi | August 13th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | wulolu | April 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | tellah | December 1st 16 |
| 3.0 good | lorr | November 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | BenCee | June 6th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Greidy | April 23rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | dvd0bvb | February 12th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Twiddlw | December 7th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Ulshad | November 24th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Dmax28 | October 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | mEyck97 | October 16th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tasty | May 1st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | mRA | April 8th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Feels | February 23rd 15 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | September 11th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Hati | September 12th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | RayRay | March 2nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | N2B3J | December 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | SWAGBRVH | November 22nd 12 |
| 3.0 good | SethEZ | October 20th 12 |
| 3.0 good | KILL | October 16th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Benc | July 25th 12 |
| 3.5 great | JKoppe | June 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | sexpoi | June 6th 12 |
| 3.0 good | mcchub | March 14th 12 |
| 3.5 great | vdop | February 28th 12 |
| 3.5 great | mort | January 1st 12 |
| 3.5 great | Andrew | December 1st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Toddley | November 29th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Mroaeon | September 6th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Jeejee | August 3rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 7kthulu | June 29th 11 |
| 3.2 good | Trey STAFF | June 15th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | ev0ken | April 25th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | six6vi | March 25th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Derkyle | February 8th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 37er00 | January 26th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 18th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | shuffly | August 31st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ess | August 17th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | July 16th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Manland | December 30th 09 |
| 2.5 average | drewkar | December 28th 09 |
| 3.5 great | pixmpy | December 19th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vano | December 17th 09 |
| 3.0 good | ikarus | December 14th 09 |
| 2.5 average | alsid | October 27th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | lobby | October 2nd 09 |
| 3.0 good | McP3000 | September 24th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | shaitan | September 21st 09 |
| 3.5 great | pride | September 9th 09 |
| 2.5 average | DBlitz | September 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | GibTG | July 30th 09 |
| 3.5 great | atrink | July 22nd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tyler EMERITUS | July 17th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Medika | July 15th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | ntrno | June 5th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Warpt | May 27th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | RedSky | May 23rd 09 |
| 3.5 great | Thor | May 20th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | mikev | May 20th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zoo | May 20th 09 |
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