The Initial Impressions Thread

[SweptbackFlame]

Yeah, but the thing is that Edguy do this hard rock thing where whenever Tobias isn't singing the riffs are the focus, and they blow. Their older stuff has more keyboard-heavy stuff, but lately they're all about guitar riffs and stroking Sammet's ego. That said, Rocket Ride was good and fun, so I don't know where this atrocity came from.

See compared to Rocket Ride...Hellfire Club is a much better album...Mysteria kicks my ass everytime. Especially the other version of that song with Mille Pretrozza doing guest vocals on that song.

 

[rms]

Every description of that band that was posted in the last 5 posts makes me never want to hear anything form them, ever.

there's no reason to listen to Edguy unless you are just recently discovering power metal

 

[waif]

That song is crap and Mille is horrifically out of place on it.

 

[Eligos]

Dani Filth is the definition of sophistry in metal, as is Panic at the Disco! in pop music.

 

[skeptik]

Arckanum -

How the fuck can anybody consider this the best album released this year? Astoundingly underwhelming based on how much it has been talked up on this forum. I need to learn to stop listening to what people say here.

 

[Eligos]

Well, it did come out after 1995, so it is automatically disqualified as a good album.

 

[skeptik]

Have you ever looked at any of my reviews?

 

[Eligos]

Dodens, you know I'm incapable of reading.

 

[waif]

Dodens doesn't hate everything released after 1995, just everything that sounds like it was released after 1995.

 

[AchrisK]

Sacrilege - Turn Back Trilobite

1989, UK

I have not heard this band's previous albums, but I hear that they are thrash. M-A calls this release doom. I am not sure if I agree entirely. Though it definitely has doom influences, it's mostly not low, fuzzy and droning, and just doesn't have that doomy feel most of the time. It's more like mid-paced metal played with a lot of feeling. The vocals are just very plain female vocals which, I would say, tend towards not very good. But for me they are not a problem. They neither ruin anything, nor add anything special.

The music, however, seems to be special. Long songs with a lot of music and not filled with a lot of vocals. The music seems mostly well thought out and has a lot of special moments in solos, transitions and the like. They also employ a bit of speed here and there. There are also moments and passages which seem awkward, but after only one listen I am not sure those moments will not become much more fitting, in my mind, in the future.

 

[AchrisK]

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Borrowed from a friend. Listened through once. Seems like it could be a pretty good album. I hear lots of stuff going on which I could see really endearing itself to me... but I probably won't own it.

 

[Belligerent]

there's no reason to listen to Edguy

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Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

... but I probably won't own it.

You should.




I recently discovered a band named Lost Soul from Poland. Their new album Immersed in Infinity has been on high rotation lately. As i mentioned before the "Evangelion" influences are definitely there along with a healthy dose of Morbid Angel influence. Vocals might be a turnoff at first for some but i find them to add to the brutal atmosphere even more. Pretty much the only album i've been listening to at the gym.

 

[AchrisK]

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I recently discovered a band named Lost Soul from Poland. Their new album Immersed in Infinity has been on high rotation lately. As i mentioned before the "Evangelion" influences are definitely there along with a healthy dose of Morbid Angel influence. Vocals might be a turnoff at first for some but i find them to add to the brutal atmosphere even more. Pretty much the only album i've been listening to at the gym.

Good band. I think Poland has a high quality output of death metal. Sceptic, Truama, Decapitated, Vader, Devilyn...

 

[xAzagthothx]

hmmm, im gonna have to check that band Lost Soul out.

But yo, I would be VERY VERY VERY eternally grateful to hear all of your first impressions of Angeldeath's "Hordes of Sickness/Legions of Hate" EP. It was our 2nd album, recorded in a professional studio, and the sound quality is great.

The album is the first 4 tracks on www.myspace.com/angeldeath518

The tracks are "Unholy Ceremonies," "Curse of Enthrallment," "The Black Gate," and "Call of the Ghoul." The other track, "Abominations," is from the first demo, entitled "Screams From Beyond." If any of you are interested in obtaining a copy of that, please feel free to message me and I'll send you a copy.

But yeah, I am VERY anxious to hear what you all think of this material. It was ALL written before we were 18, and recorded a couple months after we graduated from high school. I hope/think you will be very impressed... when I came back to it after 5 years of being broken up, I couldn't believe how outstanding we were; I just didn't see it at the time, really. I mean i loved it, but now I listen to the "Hordes..." album equally if not more than I do Morbid Angel, Belphegor, Immortal...

so I'm very very curious to hear what you all think.

Oh, and anyone who reviews the tracks fully here will receive a copy of our first demo. Just message me your address after you post the review/impressions here.

Thanks a ton guys! I really appreciate it.

www.myspace.com/angeldeath518

 

[Belligerent]

Good band. I think Poland has a high quality output of death metal. Sceptic, Truama, Decapitated, Vader, Devilyn...

glad you like.

Of course i've heard Decapitated and Vader but guess i'll be checking out Sceptic and Truama. What are good albums to start by them?

 

[skeptik]

Sacrilege - Turn Back Trilobite

1989, UK

I have not heard this band's previous albums, but I hear that they are thrash. M-A calls this release doom. I am not sure if I agree entirely. Though it definitely has doom influences, it's mostly not low, fuzzy and droning, and just doesn't have that doomy feel most of the time. It's more like mid-paced metal played with a lot of feeling. The vocals are just very plain female vocals which, I would say, tend towards not very good. But for me they are not a problem. They neither ruin anything, nor add anything special.

The music, however, seems to be special. Long songs with a lot of music and not filled with a lot of vocals. The music seems mostly well thought out and has a lot of special moments in solos, transitions and the like. They also employ a bit of speed here and there. There are also moments and passages which seem awkward, but after only one listen I am not sure those moments will not become much more fitting, in my mind, in the future.

I take it you don't listen to much doom metal?

 

[AchrisK]

Not a whole lot, but some.

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

When I first listened to Storm Before Calm by Primordial, I thought it was just one of their mediocre previous albums, but then I discovered the awesomeness within.

 

[Eligos]

@Achrisk: You pretty much gave a text book definition of doom.

 

[AchrisK]

Yeah, well...maybe. But really, a lot of the songs were more like something mid-paced that a band like Metallica might create (back in the day) than something like the other more sabbath-inspired doom of the time period would create. And I didn't say I thought it was not doom at all, just that I felt a label of simply doom was a little misleading.

Plus, I have only listened once.