Charred Walls of the Damned

[DreamNeonBlack]

Anyone buy this yet? Pretty good CD.





I bought the CD/DVD version. Christy is borderline retard but man can he play.

 

[ShadowsWithin]

with all the shit he pulls working for Stern Show and im pretty sure he's like full blown alcoholic isin't he? that i was expecting sloppy playing.


but i was surprised, either this was heavily edited or he's still got it.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

There are some great video of him doing some drum solos on the DVD, he's got it for sure.
And yes, he drinks through the entire video.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

Official video, came straight out of the 80's

 

[Shpongled]

It's good but it's nothing I'd buy. I've always been somewhat put off by DiGiorgio's playing. I mean he's super fucking good and all, but I think he overplays too much and it distracts me from everything else going on. Plus, I can only handle so much vibrato on the vocals.

I'll probably never listen to this band again, but I won't talk shit about them either. They're definitely excellent, just not my bag.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

One more...

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

MoOoOoOoOOOOOoOoOre ViIiIiIbraAaAaAtoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOO

 

[Shpongled]

I just had a flashback of you taking a shit

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

HA HA that was pretty funny, forgot all about it.

 

[slashvanyoung]

i was expecting sloppy playing.

but i was surprised, either this was heavily edited or he's still got it.

Anyway, you wouldn't be able to tell from the recording, because even tight and hard hitters are being edited to an inhumane level. Sometimes it's pretty obvious, like the hard-quantized and sample-augmented fast double kick parts.

So you really can't draw much of a conclusion based on this. The thing that transcends production value though, is his actual style, which is still quite unique and very recognizable. Great to hear him on a record again!

About DiGiorgio: Sadus (nowadays) often seems like an autotelic band, only serving him as platform to channel his virtuosity. Something that, indeed, often distracts from the actual songs. I still enjoy the pure self-indulgence though.

But he's low and restarined enough in this mix to not really pop out that much. Much like on the Testament records he played on. In such a scenario, he's one of my favourite bassists in extreme metal.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Funny....listening to it right now, actually.

It's pretty fucking good, hence why I'm still listening to it after discovering it a few days ago. Though, it's a little too short in my opinion.

 

[ShadowsWithin]

yeah i figured most likely he had a lot of drum replacement done, some of the parts you can't fake convincingly with samples like the snare fill in the beginning of ghost town (or at least from what i have seen). but i watched a video of him playing Frost yesterday and it seemed fairly recent and he did a damn good job.



but yeah the fast kick parts in that song sound like something i would hear my drum program playing a guitar pro file doing

 

[Chromatose]

You'd think they could've gotten some better album art.

 

[azal]

the art looks like it was done by a 10 year old.

 

[azal]

the art looks like it was done by a 10 year old.

 

[Rocking Metalaholic]

Charred Walls of the Damned's s/t cd debut is amazing with no weak tracks but wish their more songs on it.

 

[Enemy242]

damn this is pretty good, I might have to check it out but I have a feeling the vocals will drive me insane after a while

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

The vocals can be a bit one dimensional at times when listening to the whole disk at once. Meaning he is getting pretty predictable in his vocals, But everything is really good.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

The vocals can be a bit one dimensional at times when listening to the whole disk at once. Meaning he is getting pretty predictable in his vocals, But everything is really good.

Would you expect anything different from Tim Owens?

 

[Jace_Mereel]

I've been playing the crap out of the album at work. Owens is predictable, but the rest of the band is great.