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Premonitions Of War - Glorified Dirt + The True Face Of Panic
Metal Blade Records - BMA 010 - 2005
By Brandon Strader
Two releases from Premonitions Of War are presented on one disc for your listening pleasure, Glorified Dirt which was recorded in 2005, and The True Face Of Panic which was recorded in 2002. The album looks pretty uninteresting from the strange and boring artwork, to the short 27 minute length, which is pretty ridiculous considering this is two releases on one disc and is only as long as an EP. The production on Glorified Dirt sounds much more dated than it actually is, as well. It sounds like there is someone with a boombox at one end of a hollow tube, and you are listening at the other end. In other words, it sounds a bit dense where it should be open. "Glorified Dirt" blasts out for the opening of the disc with an array of incoherent grindcore riffs, and forceful growls. "Marathon" changes the pace a bit, as it adds some discords and a little section of heavy riffing as opposed to the barrage of grindcore flying at you most of the time.
"Iliad (Hector's End)" continues with a mixture of the two with fast incoherent riffs, and the heavy crunch of palm-muted downtuned powerchords. "Time For Iron" switches it up a bit, with some computer generated drumbeats and crazy electronic sounds while the vocalist screams and growls incoherently in the background. "Not A Word" finishes off Glorified Dirt as a musical culmination of all of the elements that made up the first release on this disc, all 10 minutes of it... The True Face Of Panic, which was recorded in 2002, actually sounds a lot better than Glorified Dirt and is 8 minutes longer. Sure, it's still the same mixture of incoherent riffs and screams that make each song sound so similar to each other, but the production contained more high-end, and held much more of a punch. The songwriting even seems a bit more spontaneous, and songs like "Correspondences", "Hanging Moon", and "I'd Settle For Sleep" actually had a decent length of over 3 minutes, and featured much better songwriting and structure. If the band would have focused more throughout their career on making songs like these three instead of all of the cookie-cutter 1-minute tracks, then they would have really made an album worth checking out instead of two combined that are very disappointing.
4/10
UM's Review Rating Scale
Official Premonitions Of War Website
Official Metal Blade Records Website
Metal Blade Records - BMA 010 - 2005
By Brandon Strader
Two releases from Premonitions Of War are presented on one disc for your listening pleasure, Glorified Dirt which was recorded in 2005, and The True Face Of Panic which was recorded in 2002. The album looks pretty uninteresting from the strange and boring artwork, to the short 27 minute length, which is pretty ridiculous considering this is two releases on one disc and is only as long as an EP. The production on Glorified Dirt sounds much more dated than it actually is, as well. It sounds like there is someone with a boombox at one end of a hollow tube, and you are listening at the other end. In other words, it sounds a bit dense where it should be open. "Glorified Dirt" blasts out for the opening of the disc with an array of incoherent grindcore riffs, and forceful growls. "Marathon" changes the pace a bit, as it adds some discords and a little section of heavy riffing as opposed to the barrage of grindcore flying at you most of the time.
"Iliad (Hector's End)" continues with a mixture of the two with fast incoherent riffs, and the heavy crunch of palm-muted downtuned powerchords. "Time For Iron" switches it up a bit, with some computer generated drumbeats and crazy electronic sounds while the vocalist screams and growls incoherently in the background. "Not A Word" finishes off Glorified Dirt as a musical culmination of all of the elements that made up the first release on this disc, all 10 minutes of it... The True Face Of Panic, which was recorded in 2002, actually sounds a lot better than Glorified Dirt and is 8 minutes longer. Sure, it's still the same mixture of incoherent riffs and screams that make each song sound so similar to each other, but the production contained more high-end, and held much more of a punch. The songwriting even seems a bit more spontaneous, and songs like "Correspondences", "Hanging Moon", and "I'd Settle For Sleep" actually had a decent length of over 3 minutes, and featured much better songwriting and structure. If the band would have focused more throughout their career on making songs like these three instead of all of the cookie-cutter 1-minute tracks, then they would have really made an album worth checking out instead of two combined that are very disappointing.
4/10
UM's Review Rating Scale
Official Premonitions Of War Website
Official Metal Blade Records Website
