RUDRA - Brahmavidya: Primordial I

[J.]

Now available at THe End for $13.49

When the hell did THe End start with Wal-Mart pricing?

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Now available at THe End for $13.49

When the hell did THe End start with Wal-Mart pricing?

ordered.

 

[JayKeeley]

Listening to this today for the third time....this album absolutely smokes. The drumming is spectacular -- I don't know what happened between "Kurukshetra" and this one, but you've now got a serious assault on your hands. The musicianship is extremely tight now, whereas before it was a little sloppy.

Favourite song on the album so far is "There the Sun Never Shines". It's like the rumbling of those Men of the East marching in on their Oliphaunts crushing all those puny blonde pony boys, and then the calm after the storm with the female mantras.

Gonna enjoy reviewing this beast.

 

[Nico]

That mp3 was really, really good. I'll have to track this down now.

 

[Allure of the Earth]

How much use of female vocals are used in the album, I think the girl has a very beautiful voice, and if it used effectively.

Melechesh would also improve if they added choirs, or female vocals into the mix!

 

[JayKeeley]

How much use of female vocals are used in the album, I think the girl has a very beautiful voice, and if it used effectively.

Actually, there is an entire track with just the female vocals -- it's a sombre traditional Indian folk piece with acoustic guitars, and sits nicely between two blasting metal tracks. Kind of like the way Hate Forest did that on "Battlefields".

Melechesh would also improve if they added choirs, or female vocals into the mix!

There are lots of moments on the Rudra album that sound like Melechesh (e.g. the song I mentioned earlier "There the Sun never Shines"), but the one thing Rudra do better here is deliver that trance like pattern, repeating over and over -- Melechesh are a little more thrashy so they tend to jump around a little more, and so it's hard to get 'lost' in the moment, like you would do with say Nile or Mithras.

The coolest thing with Rudra now are the drumming patterns. Remember how Drudkh's "Autumn Aurora" had the repetitive guitar riffs but constantly changing drum patterns? Same kind of thing here, but much louder so therefore less ambient. It's pretty fricckin' awesome, but it takes several listens to really appreciate it.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Sounds killer...now I just need to find it.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

got Rudra in the mail today. The more I listen, the more I like it.

edit: just realized that it took the end 3 days to get my my cds. fuck that is cool!

 

[singahell]

any reviews done on this one?

 

[JayKeeley]

any reviews done on this one?

Yeah, just waiting to publish. The new site just got rehauled 24 hours ago.

 

[J.]

death metal album of the year so far. yes, better than the new Nile

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

no.

 

[J.]

so far the new Nile isn't doing anything for me. it's nothing next to Black Seeds

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I cant stop listening to it. and its gotten better.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I'm listening now, it's pretty good, it'll need a few more runs through.

I'm glad to see so many melechesh fans here.

 

[Demilich]

i grabbed this off of ebay for 5 bucks or something..expecting it to show up soon! i can't not buy cds when they're that cheap, and that Veil of Maya song was cool! hell, i haven't bought a death metal album since edge of sanity's Unorthodox last summer.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

So I'm sitting here bothering to give the new Nile a proper listen. And I realize why I didn't give it one when i first got it. Right off the bat I notice one thing. It doesn't grab me like the others did.

The old Nile grabbed me by the balls, swung me over its head and smashed me off the walls, floor, ceiling and any sharp objects it could find. (think Obelix and some romans)

This stuff, it kinda pokes me. Gently.

 

[JayKeeley]

Yeah, that's the first reaction I had with Nile, but it does get better after repeated listens. However, this only dawns on you once you've accepted the fact that they've toned things down - nobody can dispute that. Good or bad, it's up to you.

If you can accept that Nile are now playing a bit more "straight forward" death metal, then as those kinds of albums go, it's brilliant. If you're wanting more "Black Seeds" style shitz, then forget it bitches. That gritty, dirty, sealed in a tomb for a thousand years, mummy's curse of a hundred Nubians type pummeling is long gone.

Shit, I think I can even understand some of the vocals on the new Nile.

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

I'm back.... anyway, I picked this up, and its amazing, thanks Jay!

 

[Nico]

death metal album of the year so far.

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