Pathology Stench/Tides & Giant/Burzum/Nodes Of Ranvier/Cannabis Corpse

Accion Mutante-Underground speedy, angry death metal from poland. Pathology Stench pumps out pure fast past, almost brutal, death metal. It was actually a surprisingly good release, but i wasn't interested in it for some reason. It was great sound quality for an underground polish DM band. I heard their stuff the first time when i saw the video for the album track "Accion Mutante". Recommended to fans of: Tech death, brutal death, and fast paced death metal. Overall Rating: 7/10
Tides|Giant-Split CD between atmospheric sludge band Tides and Experimental doom band Giant. Tides pushed out a great 2 tracks. Beautiful, uplifting, atmospheric sludge. There are no lyrics on the 2 songs, but i presume the other material has lyrics because if not, i think the band would be considered post metal/post rock. Giant put a nice long song with great atmosphere with balls. Giant really, in my opinion, has no straight up doom metal elements whatsoever. I feel they play atmospheric sludge with some doom mixed in. The song had nice piano lines and better atmosphere than Tides. Recommended for fans of: new Isis, Irreversible, and Bossk. Overall Rating: 9/10 & 9.1/10
Filosofem-Released after Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, this album has alot more ambient elements than the previous. This was basically the changing of times, the transformation of turning burzum into free black metal into ambient music released while Varg is in jail. The songs were good, but track 5 was extremely annoying when he overused the same droning ambient lines for about 15 minutes after the black metal part of the song ended. Recommended for fans of: Bathory and black ambient music. Overall Rating: 6.7/10
The Years To Come-A very diverse band from the heart of south dakota. The band really to me seems like Atreyu with harder vocals. The vocals sound almost exactly like the drummer of atreyu, but the screams have a league of their own. Inhales, basically gutturals, but he uses them as vocals. It's hard to describe, so if you really want to know you're going to have to find out for yourself. I used to like all the bands material, but right after their new album came out on victory i lost interest in all releases but this one. It sucks that after the newer album "Defined By Struggle" was released, victory stopped supporting them on their new tour. The band went broke and decided to break up because there was only one original member left in the band. Recommended for fans of: Atreyu. Overall Rating: 8.3/10
Tube Of The Resinated-The 2nd release from death metallers Cannabis corpse. The band was created to poke fun at cannibal corpse's obsession over gore. Phil of Municipal Waste started Cannabis Corpse to make fun of that and took the name and changed it so the band talks strictly about marijuana instead of gore. They went all out, they took some song titles from cannibal and changed them to fit Cannabis Corpse's name (ie: Mummified In Bong Water and Every Bud Smoken). The band even has a mascot; a pot monster hahaha. A guy dresses up in a costume of a marijuana plant and is there at the shows and in photo promos; much like iron maiden's "Eddie" and how Cannibal has reoccuring characters in their album artwork that look similar. Recommended to fans of: Municipal Waste and Cannibal Corpse. Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Carnifex/Selenite Sleepover/Carnifex/Jungle Rot/Burzum

The Diseased And The Poisoned-The best release to date basically that i have gotten my hands on. I looked up carnifex through amazon.com a while back and finally decided because i really liked the samples that i'd buy a shirt by them (it was on clearance for 8$) and their two releases for sale at hot topic. I stuck the CD in on the ride home with my girlfriend and we were blown away. Best breakdowns, blasts, grooves, and vocals i have heard on a CD. Best quality recording done by a great studio (Planet Z). Recommended to fans of: The Catalan Garrote, Impending Doom, and early Underneath The Gun. Overall Rating: 9876543456787654345886543456787654345678765432345678765432345678/10

Selenite Sleepover 3 track demo-This band was made from the remains of ex-members of my good friends old band Ciano. He left the band and decided to start a project right after ciano deteriorated due to his absence. He created a project with frank carpenito and luciano who were both in ciano and other projects with billy. They decided to go more away from the emocore material and wrote poppy indie rock. They took one song from when they were Ciano and rewrote it as a pop track and also released an acoustic track (not on the demo, but i have a copy). This demo is a nice hardhitting pop CD with great keyboard lines and great vocals put out by frank. Recommended to fans of: Ivoryline and Amen. The Animal. Overall Rating: 9.5/10 
Dead In My Arms-Not as good as their newer album reviewed above, but still a really good release. The album has better groove, but more borecore lines. The vocals are great and haven't changed. Track 3 "Slitwrist Savior" was a great song. A couple of songs have real good sound clip interludes that were really tight. The sound quality wasn't at its best, but then again, this was released right before they got picked up by victory records. Recommended for fans of: Impending Doom and The Catalan Garrote. Overall Rating: 8.4/10
Dead And Buried-Next to "War Zone" this is the 2nd best release by Jungle Rot. This is face crushing old school hardcore influenced death metal. The lyrics are gruesome and overly brutal, and i love it. The guitar lines are all groove, no brutal or grind influence. The best songs by Jungle Rot come directly from this release. Their best song is "Psychotic Cremation". Recommended for fans of: old school DM and hardcore/groove. Overall Rating: 98765435678/10
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss-Most coveted of all of burzum releases, and ironically it was the first CD i purchased by him. This is old school hard hitting black metal mixed with ambient. I always thought of burzum as only bm before i listened to them and became a fan. But to my surprise his newest two releases were strictly ambient, and all the old material (this release and Filosofem) contain alot of ambient/atmospheric elements. His material is great black metal, the ambient sometimes gets droning to the point you start to ignore it. The band is on hold due to Varg Vikernes (the sole member) being in jail for multiple church burnings and the murder of Euronymous (from Mayhem). I won't be surprised if he is again denied parole a few years from now. Norway does not want him back on the streets. But it would be cool if he came back and started writing more black metal material. Recommended for fans of: Bathory. Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Immortal Technique/The Cure/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Sir Lord Baltimore/Dark's Eve

Revolutionary Vol. 1-Probably one of the few rappers that i like to listen to in my free time. When i listen to Immortal Technique it makes me think. Think about the government, my lifestyle, where i'm going, where i've been. It's almost esoteric in a way. He pushes out this ethereal aura when he raps about his life; stating, this shit happened to me, don't get messed up in it or it'll end up happening to you. Some people look at his material as sick, morbid, and gory. I look to this as reality. Recommended for fans of: Necro and politics. Overall Rating: 7.7/10
4:13 Dream-Not the best release i ever heard. I've had a hard time starting to like The Cure because i'm not an emo kid hahaha. I first heard them play their newest material (this album) and it sounded really good live. The guys are dressed like complete queers, but whatever, the music was good. I got a hold of the album and i was a little disappointed. The vocals had this shitty echo effect placed on top of it. Otherwise than the bad vocals, the release was a good space-rock, new wave emo rock album. Recommended for fans of: The Cult. Overall Rating: 6.5/10
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada-An EP release from post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I really don't know why it is considered an EP release; the full length albums are 4 tracks and clock in about 40-50 minutes and this one is only 3 tracks but i think its around the same by what i remember. I'm putting emphasis again on this phrase but this is a good band all around to just sit and space out and think. Recommended for fans of: Silver Mt. Zion and Sigur Ros. Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Sir Lord Baltimore-No one knows this band. Sir Lord Baltimore formed in '68 and has members from notable bands (Erik Norlander, Munetaka Higuchi, Audiovision, Koala, Whitesnake, and many more). They were the first band to be labelled heavy metal. They released this and one other album before breaking up. Then their drummer went on to play in many notable musicians bands (metal and nonmetal). They reformed around 2005 and released a new album in 2006 and are still together. It's really cool to know that all the bands that invented metal are still together (Flower Travellin' Band [reformed in 2008], Black Sabbath [on hold], Deep Purple, and Sir Lord Baltimore). The album is more hard rock if anything than heavy metal though; i'm presuming their other releases are heavy metal. Recommended for fans of: all the old metal bands i just listed. Overall Rating: 7/10
Shameful Celebration-I was looking to get into the underground of christian metal. Felipe showed me this band that he had just got their CD in the mail from brazil through the underground. I scrounged up all the proof i could find of them online and posted them on metal-archives. Felipe needed some extra pocket change to buy things because he just moved to seattle from panama and offered the CD to me for 8$. I sent out the money the next day because i was so excited at the offer. I am the only man outside of latin america (and probably brazil) that has a hard copy of this CD. The album is a gem. It is old school death metal in the vein of death and dismember. The guitar solos are insane and remind me of christian DM band Taine (from romania). The drums are good, and the bass is pretty raw. The CD is only a demo, and i'm not sure they have any other releases. But i really hope if they do that i can get it, or they can make a myspace and i can contact them. Recommended to fans of: Death, Dismember, and Morbid Angel. Overall Rating: 9.8/10

Symphony In Peril/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Debodified/Being Killed/Trouble

Lost Memoirs And Faded Pictures-Great metalcore that gets no recognition. This band pumped out 2 great CD's before their sad end. Their vocalist was the old singer of infamous hardcore/metalcore band Zao prior to daniel weyandt. Shawn has a very unique raspy yell. This release is nothing compared to their sophomore release "The Whore's Trophy"; but it was a good start. Recommended for fans of: early Zao. Overall Rating: 6/10
Yanqui U.X.O.-I have no idea what the title meant, or even really what the album shows (looks like an airplane with 1 lost engine). It was not as good as the lift yr skinny hands release, but it was another CD that is a great thing to just lie back and think. Recommended to fans of: Silver Mt. Zion and Sigur Ros. Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Utopia In The Eyes Of A Beast-Fun release for the handful of listens i had with it. It was very standardized brutal death metal with a cool twist. Normal BDM is all guttural weetweet, wee, ortort, oioi, breebree, and no one ever tried what Debodified used; Fwee Fwee. It sounds like an asian trying to talk american, but doing it through a BDM band. I certainly mean no insult to the band, but it was a fun release to listen to. Recommended to fans of: Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement, Cesspool Of Vermin, Lust Of Decay, Being Killed, all Jordan Varela's bands. Overall Rating: 7/10
Kill Yourself-Alot slower than their previous release. This album is more grooving slamming brutal death metal with alot more death metal influence over grindcore influence compared to the first album. This one seemed ultimately better, but also boring. The songs were good and long (around 3-5 minutes). But there was nothing to keep my attention really on it, so it got boring. Recommended to fans of: Pathology. Overall Rating: 5/10
Trouble-Great psychadellic release from old school doomers Trouble. Great tracks, with a few that had lines that made me keep listening to it a couple of days after i had actually heard the whole thing. I've been trying desperately to get my dad into this band because he grew up on Deep Purple and Black Sabbath; and he's slowly having Trouble grow on him like moss growing on an old driveway over the course of 40 years. Recommended to fans of: Black Sabbath, Sir Lord Baltimore, and Deep Purple. Overall Rating: 8.3/10

For Today/Mortification/Protest The Hero/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/A Stained Glass Romance

Ekklesia-AMAZING!!!! Possibly the only release with a good african american vocalist. Metal archives refers to them as melodic thrash metalcore but they defenitely have alot of melodic deathcore elements. The guitars are sweeping all over, and in some songs they pull off a poppy vibe but are pure metal at the same time. I stumbled across this release through amazon.com and i bless them so much. Recommended for fans of: As Blood Runs Black if they met popcore and dated. Overall Rating: 4567u6545678976546789876545678uhuy765tryu8376tfgyhu8y7t6gyhuj3y723h23r6hy3r/10
Erasing The Goblin-Newest release from death/thrash band Mortification. They went back to their moreso death roots. Only bad thing is none of the tracks had a memorable flare to it like the other albums do. Not really as much of a marketable release unless your a fan of the band. Recommended for fans of: Mortification. Overall Rating: 6/10
Kezia-A sort of off-kilter from the norm release. When you hear "Metalcore" you think of material like unearth and killswitch engage. This band takes power metal vocals and mixes them with metalcore elements and also is progressive epic power/metalcore. The release is for basically a new wave of people who like avant-garde music. Recommended for fans of: Iron Maiden and Unearth. Overall Rating: 6.92/10
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven-My favorite of all Godspeed releases. The tracks are flowing with atmosphere. Orchestral arrangements ween in and out. The band has influenced a multitude of people. Recommended to fans of: Silver Mt. Zion and Sigur Ros. Overall Rating: 8.7/10
It's Not A Party Without Us-Amazing metalcore from north carolina. The band never made it till they got signed by torque (a subsidiary of victory records) and released this album. The band introduced me to the beauty of breakdowns with the help of a KAOSS pad. The breakdowns boom in and rumble the car when you pop it on. Recommended for fans of: Caught In The Line Of Fire, Labyrinthe, Onward To Olympas, and other local north carolina bands. Overall Rating: 5678865435678987654ertyu765435ty7u8987654erfghu765rtghu76543ertyu/10

As Blood Runs Black/Agraceful/Trenches/North/Emarosa

Allegiance-Probably my favorite band for melodic lines mixed with good breakdowns. A long time ago when i first heard them i thought they were complete garbage. And then i searched around the deathcore scene (from a few years ago (through the eyes of the dead, job for a cowboy, black dahlia murder)) and i heard the track "My Fears Have Become My Phobias" with it's tight triggered double bass. The band has really good tech lines infused with great melody. Recommended for fans of: For Today. Overall Rating: 9/10
The Great I Am-Ok, so Dance Gavin Dance's original singer ended up leaving and joining a band called Emarosa because Emarosa's old singer left to create this one. This is a mallcore/metalcore release. I really don't even know how to describe it. The CD jumps around from light to ballsy with tech melodies and breakdowns, to vocal harmonized choruses. Recommended for fans of: (early) Emarosa. Overall Rating: 6.6/10
The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole-What seems at first to actually be a sludge release but is actually along the lines as undescribable semi-metal/semi-post rock. Contains old singer of Haste The Day. He left due to the fact he kept having vocal issues and in Trenches there is alot less vocals in their music. Recommended for fans of : Suffocate For Fuck Sake. Overall Rating: 6.4/10
What You Were-Beautiful atmospheric sludge from North. They originally played instrumental and metal-archives didn't recognize them as metal until they gained a vocalist who only screams. Some parts of the album are better off without vocals due to the fact the music itself is so beautiful. Recommended for fans of: Isis, Irreversible, and Voyager. Overall Rating: 8/10
Relativity-One of the most amazing vocalists of our time. The music is along the lines of post hardcore/indiecore with all vocals. This album is the epitome of the fact that there atleast is "some" greatness left in music. Recommended for fans of: Emery and early Dance Gavin Dance. Overall Rating: 100/10

Bleeding Corpse/Austrian Death Machine/Torsofuck/Z3roc00l/Open Eyes Elysia

Resurrection Of Murder-Good brutal death metal release from indonesia. The area is crawling in brutal bands. Has good interludes with creepy spoken word interludes. It is standard brutal death metal, not too much flare, thats probably the reason i like it. Recommended for fans of: Jasad, Banaspati, Siksakubur, and other indonesian bands. Overall Rating: 7/10
A Very Brutal Christmas-The single released by Tim Lambesis' side project Austrian Death Machine. This is made with two tracks not released on his full length. One is a christmas track "Jingle Bells" made for the occasion so the release could be a true "Winter" release. The other track was a fairly good cover of "Hell Bent For Leather" originally by Judas Priest. This release is a fun short little single to check out and listen to for the holidays. Recommended for fans of: Ten Feet From Murder. Overall Rating: 8/10
Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy-Mediocre slam death gore. Every song starts with a sick quote from a movie. The best one is "Raped By Elephants" which has a quote from the movie Freddy Got Fingered. Every track is blasting brutal death with alot of slam death intertwined. Recommended for fans of: Gutrot, Sikfuk, Infertile Surrogacy, (early) Waking The Cadaver, Cemetery Rapist. Overall Rating: 6.8/10
The Scroll Of The Elders-Industrial death metal based on the video game The scroll of the elders III: Morrowind. I love the songs that the vocalist goes off on tangents and starts talking about old video games people don't know about. Recommended for fans of: video games and death metal. Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Optophobia-Very chaotic; blood sweat and tears. This is the strongest voice i ever heard that came from a girl. The vocals are all growling yells along the lines of most deathcore male vocalists. The band is a mix of deathcore, grindcore, mallcore, and avant-garde. Recommended for fans of: I Wrestled A Bear Once. Overall Rating: 7.9/10

Amen. The Animal/Breath Of Life/Isis/Ten Feet From Murder/

My Iron Heart-Pop meets deathcore breakbeat drums. It's a rather odd mix of materials; but Amen. The Animal knows just the right things to play to pull off the sound this great. The bad news is they have abolished this sound since and are now just really bad boring pop music. This was just a really fun EP to put on in the car and dance to. Recommended to fans of: A Day To Remember and Floral Terrace. Overall Rating: 8.9/10
Goodbye (Proud World)-Underground release from ex-members of Pale Horse. This is a good underground christian death/doom band. I wasn't expecting much from a release from 1994 due to the fact i listen to material moreso relatively new in doom material (with exception of Trouble (from the 70's)). The demo showed alot of potential for a band that never made it. This CD is one of 2,000 copies and a cheap disk, although i think its a gem. Recommended for fans of: Ataraxie, Death, and Esoteric. Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Celestial-Not the best release from Isis. I took my time listening to it because i didn't really care too much for it; i listened in bits and pieces before bed and that was the extent. It was too much "anti-atmosphere" in a way. Recommended for fans of: more standard sludge than atmospheric sludge. Overall Rating: 5.6/10
Murder-I was surprised to find out i liked this band. This is the only thrash band i like. It is moreover standard death metal with metallica and lamb of god influence. It was a short listen, and was cheap to get on CDBaby.com. Definitely a good bang and is worth alot more than i paid for. Recommended for fans of: Metallica, Lamb Of God, and Death. Overall Rating: 7.9/10
Pretty Little Lightning Paw-So far the only release i own from post-rock legends Silver Mount Zion. The band has so many different names, but i prefer Silver Mt. Zion because it's the shortest and to the point. This is, I'm guessing, a collective of musicians; with it's core made up of members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. This CD has great atmosphere to it, and the vocals are sharp, really creepy, dark; almost misanthropic. The music shows hidden feelings being able to escape. This is a great CD to lie in bed with your girlfriend/boyfriend and just space out and think about things. Recommended for fans of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gregor Samsa, and Parabstruse. Overall Rating: 8/10

Eli/Journey/Caninus/Ataraxie/Our Last Night

The Second Coming-The first release from underground central USA metalcore band Eli. I was going through random bands on bigcartel.com to add to metal-archives.com and i came across Eli because i liked to logo. I listened to their one song "Behind Empty Words" and i was blown away and had to buy the CD. I now have it and love listening to it. Recommended to fans of: Knives Exchanging Hands, Misery Signals, Calico System. Overall Rating: 2345785456787656754/10
Evolution-Another album that was not really a hit with the fans by journey. This album only had one single "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'". The album was released in '79 so it wasn't anything notable by early age Journey. What i liked most was the epic sound of the intro track, where they layered all their vocals at the start of it. Recommended to fans of: Kansas and Asia. Overall Rating: 4/10
Now The Animals Have A Voice-From the members of hardcore band Most Precious Blood comes grindcore band Caninus. This is the first band ever with dogs as vocalists. Budgie and Basil are the two vocalists, they are pittbulls. All the members of the band are also vegans. The songs are fast paced, longest song clocks in about 2 1/2 minutes (by recollection). They wrote lyrics in the lyric book for the songs, but the lyrics are obviously barks and growls. It's a great thing to listen to with your dog lying down next to you. Honestly, my dog hears Caninus and he walks up to me and sits down and listens. My girlfriends dog came up to me and did the "head turn" every time budgie and basil would growl haha. Recommended for fans of: Hatebeak and Most Precious Blood. Overall Rating: 8/10
The Other Path-Alot more raw than "Slow Transcending Agony", this release shows more funeral material compared to their newer funeral death. This release seems like it would be a full-length album, but it was actually a demo-CD. Recommended for fans of: Esoteric. Overall Rating: 7/10
The Ghosts Among Us-Very odd release. The CD is what seems like a mix of metalcore, early rise against, melodic punk and hardcore. The album is actually really good, but it's one of those CD's you won't be able to stand if you hear it alot. Recommended for fans of: Rise Against, For The Fallen Dreams, Oceana, Calico System. Overall Rating: 8/10

Haste The Day/Mortification/I Declare War/Agalloch/Myself My Enemy

Dreamer-I have to admit, i was very biased and felt hatred towards this CD when i heard previews right after it's release. But since i am a true fan of Haste The Day and have their 3 other albums (and desperately wanting to get the original EP) i decided to cave in and buy it. It was a real good idea of myself to do so. Once i heard it fully, i got latched onto it. They have gone alot farther from their metalcore roots and have gone towards melodic death metal. They now play, i guess what you'd consider alternative melodic death metal (which is springing up all over, and metal-archives is having a field day trying to figure out what is metalcore and what is mallcore.) HTD is still sadly considered mallcore due to all the vocals in all their songs. (I still think their metalcore material from releases 2 and 3, and the melodeath from releases 4 and this one should make them heavy enough for metal-archives.) The only thing i didnt like at all is that 2 songs HTD was playing material that sounded exactly like Destroy The Runner's new album. HTD has been around longer, they shouldn't steal material from DTR. Both bands are really good in different aspects. Recommended to fans of: In Flames, Darkest Hour, Destroy The Runner, Life In Your Way, Gwen Stacy. Overall Rating: 9.8/10 (for the bonus track reissue of EP song "Autumn")
Post Momentary Affliction-The electronic/industrial experimentation of Mortification. This is the midway between "Scrolls Of The Megilloth" death metal material and their latter day thrash. I don't know what to think of this album really. I didn't like all the small piddly interlude tracks just used as fillers. I liked Steve Rowe's bass solo song alot, but i felt it didnt belong on the album. The death metal bouts in the songs are good, but not the best of mortification. Recommended to fans of: Cybergrind. Overall Rating: 6.5/10
Amidst The Bloodshed-Basically my favorite release that i found through metal-archives. This band is the epitome of amazing deathcore. The band (like Myself My Enemy) sings about beating the shit out of ex girlfriends, slaughter, mutilation, etc. The release is balls out with breakdowns and breakbeats all over. Defenitely one that will be scratched to shit due to soooooo many plays on my CD player. Recommended to fans of: Chelsea Grin and Myself My Enemy. Overall Rating: 52iu51236712475126879418274561792468154687394/10
The Demonstration Archive: 1996 - 1998-A compilation of 3 early agalloch releases: The "From Which Of This Oak" demo, the "Of Stone, Wind, And Pillor" demo, and their 1998 promo demo that was mainly used to market around to labels. They didn't go through the trouble of remastering the material, or adding any other demo tracks that are hard to find, but i can deal without a couple songs by them. It was really nice of them to reissue this material; because so many people were getting ripped off on ebay and lost hundreds of dollars thinking they bought the actual copy, just to get side-swiped and be getting a knock-off. The songs early on the CD are their black metal material, which i prefer over some of the dark metal material. The later material is dark metal and ambient. Recommended to fans of: Nest, Uruk-Hai, Borknagar, etc. Overall Rating: 7/10
Anamneses-A great release by MME. This was what i expected out of MME, but at the same time i was disappointed. I was disappointed that "Rape Machine" wasn't included in this release (and that it's only a 'single') and also that they didn't have songs more like that one (my favorite song by any band basically). The EP was a great listen, and it's sort of a disappointment that their original singer Mark had to leave the band right after it's release. They're lucky to have found a new singer so quick (he guested in "Rape Machine" and "Deceit"(on the new EP)). I was really upset at first because i heard Shane's voice and it was all hardcore yells. But i looked deep and found Shane's 2 old bands and found out he has good gutterals to be in deathcore. I will just miss those hearty low grunt yells and brees out of Mark's mouth. Recommended to fans of: I Declare War and Chelsea Grin. Overall Rating: 2672387157648791287516827984123/10

Death/Unearth/Fear Before/The Faceless

Human-Classic death metal at its best. Looked upon by alot of fans as Death's "prime cut" material. It was the midpoint of the releases (4th/7). This and Symbolic are the highest two reviewed and rated Death full lengths on Metal-Archives.com. Very standard death metal, inspired thousands of metal band's music obviously because Death and Possessed started death metal. Chuck shows his master shredding skills in most of the songs and it comes out beautifully. Recommended for fans of: Old School Death Metal. Overall Rating: 8/10
The March-Probably one of the most disgusting mother-fuckin things i've ever heard. These guys need a real bitch slap to the face. These guys are retards and they are only in metal-archives due to the fact they're signed to a huge metal label and alot of past members are/were in alot of different metal bands. My friend bought this for me and told me to give them a chance for once because i never did. I graced his generosity and listened. The CD has no layout. It's rhythmic melodic vomit. It's beyond mediocre. Each song for the whole album goes back and forth between good guitar licks and good lyrics (not vocals) until track 10 and 11 collide them together and sounded somewhat mediocre. The vocals are really shitty hardcore whines, drums are just there, can't hear the bass, shitty-ass breakdowns; and only had one at the start of the album basically. This is like if killswitch engage's singer got shot, raped, and left in an alleyway for his bandmates of the same fate to find him. I respect killswitch because they have talent and pull off metalcore well. But unearth is the epitome of shit and the reason why metalheads hate hardcore/scenester kids (besides Emmure and Bring Me The Horizon). Recommended for NO ONE; DESTROY EVERY COPY OF THIS GARBAGE AT ONCE. Overall Rating: Negative Infinity/10
Fear Before-New self titled release from experimental post hardcore/mathcore band Fear Before. Formerly known as Fear Before The March Of Flames; the band decided for a change of pace (hence the dropping of "The March Of Flames" from the name). This is also due to the fact that FBTMOF significantly changed, progressing into more atmospheric experimental post hardcore/mathcore than their early 2 rooted mathcore albums. This CD is really good, beyond comprehension. The downfall is, it's hard to get into. I'm still having a hard time really getting into the CD. It is similar to "The Always Open Mouth" but it sounds crazy; as if you were to stick a few bands in a recording studio at the same time and pressing record. It's controlled chaos. It has the clashing reminiscent feel of early age FBTMOF battling with the newer album and EP (before the name change) at the same time. Recommended for fans of: people that smoke marijuana =o. Overall Rating: 8.9/10
Planetary Duality-One of the best releases ever in my book. Technical Death Metal (a great genre among the likes of Demilich <3) and Deathcore mixed together. Tech death and DC are what i mostly listen to when i just go to grab a CD. Planetary Duality has an epic vibe fusing alien influences with jazz, brutal tech death, deathcore, and hints of black metal. My favorite parts are the breakdowns and the fact that the singer uses a vocoder on his voice and sounds like a crazy robot. Recommended for fans of: Tech death or Deathcore. Overall Rating: 735412567124513672513678124623782347516274971345617248273546823794/10
Akeldama-Heard samples of Planetary Duality, so i went out and bought both CD's in the same day. Picked this one up in florida for 6$ (other one 12$) and got a great deal. I popped this CD and (along with "Planetary Duality") i was blown away. The CD is immense and just stands there in front of you saying "I will break you". The tight drumming (from session drummers of: as blood runs black, embalmed, emetic, diskreet, etc.) to the crazy bass lines, to the beautiful guitar sweeps and breakdowns. Really, this band was made to be my favorite. Recommended to fans of: Tech Death and Deathcore. Overall Rating: 43815236178247612563879128475126874912875168297481347567912487512869471834/10