np

[Bourbon]

I was honestly a bit disappointed with it.

Honestly, I was too. If only because they are so consistently killer for me. I mean I still dig it, but it felt a bit… I dunno, disjointed? Inconsistent? Fowely killed it but I dunno. Deceased riffs hit me a certain kind of way and this album didn’t hit me as hard front to back. Need to give it a few more spins.

Maybe it’ll be a grower but don’t see it surpassing any of their post-2000 work for me. Speaking of which…

NP:

 

[CiG]

Honestly, I was too. If only because they are so consistently killer for me. I mean I still dig it, but it felt a bit… I dunno, disjointed? Inconsistent? Fowely killed it but I dunno. Deceased riffs hit me a certain kind of way and this album didn’t hit me as hard front to back. Need to give it a few more spins.

Maybe it’ll be a grower but don’t see it surpassing any of their post-2000 work for me.

Yeah definitely disjointed is the best description for me. Just when it was getting going, they'd throw in a track that felt like filler, and the album never quite gets a good momentum. There's some real keepers on it though and the album finale is a fucking banger.

 

[Bourbon]

 

[RadicalThrasher]

 

[CiG]

Got me a hankerin'...

 

[Slayed Necros]

 

[Slammed]

 

[Slayed Necros]

 

[CiG]

 

[Ares_Kevin]

 

[RadicalThrasher]

 

[Sirjack]

 

[PrincessHades]

 

[PrincessHades]

 

[CiG]

 

[PrincessHades]

This is really slept on

 

[CiG]

I always found that album to be super boring, but at this point it's been years since I flogged off my CD.

 

[PrincessHades]

I always found that album to be super boring, but at this point it's been years since I flogged off my CD.

It strikes me as odd that Seeming Salvation isn't revered among all the other "one album wonder" gems of that era. It wasn't groundbreaking, but it's very well-mixed and has some awesome riffs, lots of cool melodies, harmonies, etc. and that's why I like it. I think it just relies very heavily on the aforementioned traits-cool harmonies and choppy, strangely-timed riffs, with which it takes a quantity over quality approach. Sick riff after sick riff, but I guess some people find that gimmicky. It's similar to how anything Obituary album after Cause of Death gets a lot of flak on Metallum.

 

[CiG]

Personally I've always much preferred their 1991 demo.





Production sounds way heavier and filthier, and the bass is insanely audible, it's fucking killer.

 

[PrincessHades]