Spirit In Black said:
Crap I was looking forward to that too........the willowtip site says it is more technical, is this true?
You know what? I honestly can't tell. The riffs sound so similar to the first one, only even less interesting, that it doesn't hold my attention enough for me to be able to tell how technical it is. The first three times I listened to the entire album, it only caught my interest at ONE point on the album, on the first song when a fucking amazing riff jumps in and takes over from all the mundane ones.
But that's how I get the new Commit Suicide, basically the same as the first album, and really, I shouldn't be missing whats going on because Commit Suicide is by no means a chaotic or hard to listen-to band. Their songs just consist of a linear cycle of riffs, that's all. Riff 1, play for 20 seconds, Riff 2, play for 30, Riff 3, play for 20 and maybe I dunno, 5 to 10 riffs for a song.
What really caught my attention with the first album were the moments like in Cyclic Vomiting when the song starts to speed-up and the drummer is going apeshit and rhythmically catchy on the cymbals and stuff, or on the opening of Black Falls when he's blasting and alternating those amazingly fast tom rolls as well....the drumming was spectacular on the first album, but on this second one there's hardly any of that at all. It's like the rest of the dudes in the band told him to not be so flashy, and just keep the beat plain (albeit fast). It's really annoying, that's the main thing I was looking forward to, more flashy as hell drumming. But nope, nada.
If you like Commit Suicide, pick it up by all means, but don't expect anything nearly on a par with Human Larvae.