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Seizure Crypt - City of New York
Self-Released - March 14th, 2006
By Brandon Strader
Here we have a self-released 'album' from this self-proclaimed 'speedcore' quartet, Seizure Crypt. Successfullly taking the word "speed" and combining it with the word "core", these fellows believe they have invented a new kind of music called speedcore. Whether they acheived a victory with their music here is yet to be seen (keep reading) yet I can state this now: please people, stop putting core after everything. Or at least do it accurately, how about "borecore"? Or snorecore! Haha!
These guys are not organized at all. The front cover for their new self-released CD says "City of New York", their biography says "Self-Titled CD" and their store says "Debut CD" without an actual name. Well what is this thing called?! Is it self-titled or called "City of New York"? Oh well. They did do one thing good, however, and that is the lyric booklet. It's done in some kind of comic-book style, drawings with little speech bubbles, although they only list a tiny portion of the lyrics for each song so what is the point at all?
The music is not speedcore at all, for the definition of speedcore (if the word existed) would be something that was speedy, I suppose. Actually, the tempo is not too fast, and the speed is completely done with the percussionist's attempt at thrash drumming. The most disgusting thing about this is the rhythm section if you can call it that, it's just powerchords... no joke! A powerchord here, slide up one fret to play a powerchord, and back down and that kind of pattern. These guys make me regret saying "the rhythm is just powerchords" in so many other reviews, despite their rhythms only being powerchords, at least they were better than this!
I don't want to hurt these guy's feelings, but this is really horribly done... The vocals have too much surrounding ambiance from the room they're recording in too, not enough presence... it sounds like two guys just screaming in their basement. I don't know if I have established this well enough, but the mixing - even for an amature home recording - is very bad. Whoever did the clean vocals also needs a hefty little smack in the head, as not only did he not keep in very good time, but he also sang about a note and a half FLAT of what key the acoustic was in. I think nails on a chalkboard would have sounded better, hehe...
The music really is not 'speed', nor is it 'core'... If I had to try to put a label on this, I'd have to say it's probably punk with terrible screaming or something like that. Honestly, I hope the live experience will help these guys get better at their instruments, and maybe gain some more creativity in the songwriting, but from what is displayed on "City of New York", the group really doesn't sound like it has much of a future...
0.5/10
UMs Review Rating Scale
Official Seizure Crypt Website
Self-Released - March 14th, 2006
By Brandon Strader
Here we have a self-released 'album' from this self-proclaimed 'speedcore' quartet, Seizure Crypt. Successfullly taking the word "speed" and combining it with the word "core", these fellows believe they have invented a new kind of music called speedcore. Whether they acheived a victory with their music here is yet to be seen (keep reading) yet I can state this now: please people, stop putting core after everything. Or at least do it accurately, how about "borecore"? Or snorecore! Haha!
These guys are not organized at all. The front cover for their new self-released CD says "City of New York", their biography says "Self-Titled CD" and their store says "Debut CD" without an actual name. Well what is this thing called?! Is it self-titled or called "City of New York"? Oh well. They did do one thing good, however, and that is the lyric booklet. It's done in some kind of comic-book style, drawings with little speech bubbles, although they only list a tiny portion of the lyrics for each song so what is the point at all?
The music is not speedcore at all, for the definition of speedcore (if the word existed) would be something that was speedy, I suppose. Actually, the tempo is not too fast, and the speed is completely done with the percussionist's attempt at thrash drumming. The most disgusting thing about this is the rhythm section if you can call it that, it's just powerchords... no joke! A powerchord here, slide up one fret to play a powerchord, and back down and that kind of pattern. These guys make me regret saying "the rhythm is just powerchords" in so many other reviews, despite their rhythms only being powerchords, at least they were better than this!
I don't want to hurt these guy's feelings, but this is really horribly done... The vocals have too much surrounding ambiance from the room they're recording in too, not enough presence... it sounds like two guys just screaming in their basement. I don't know if I have established this well enough, but the mixing - even for an amature home recording - is very bad. Whoever did the clean vocals also needs a hefty little smack in the head, as not only did he not keep in very good time, but he also sang about a note and a half FLAT of what key the acoustic was in. I think nails on a chalkboard would have sounded better, hehe...
The music really is not 'speed', nor is it 'core'... If I had to try to put a label on this, I'd have to say it's probably punk with terrible screaming or something like that. Honestly, I hope the live experience will help these guys get better at their instruments, and maybe gain some more creativity in the songwriting, but from what is displayed on "City of New York", the group really doesn't sound like it has much of a future...
0.5/10
UMs Review Rating Scale
Official Seizure Crypt Website
