Warning – Footprints
Didn’t like Warning the last time I heard them (prolly a decade ago), liked this song a lot now. Enjoy your victory, in-crowd. 8/10.
Fueled by Fire - Forsaken Deity
Good but not great, their songwriting abilities have definitely improved over the years. 6/10.
Rigor Mortis – Speedwhore
Average, like most Rigor Mortis. Don’t understand the hype. 4/10.
Dark Angel - Pain's Invention, Madness
I hated this album for years, like I thought it was one of the worst things ever recorded, but it’s grown on me in a huge way. Even though the 246 riffs and all that aren’t individually always the most interesting, how relentless they are in just dropping them one after the next until it becomes a giant blur over the DSM-IV equivalent to medical textbook goregrind lyrics is super-effective. Even Rinehart’s awkward, whiny performance sounds so fitting. 8/10.
Cannibal Corpse - Addicted to Vaginal Skin
Decent, very thrashy and derivative but still a few good riffs, although mostly towards the beginning. Abrupt ending, felt too short and too long simultaneously, pretty boring actually. 4/10.
Dødheimsgard - The Snuff Dreams Are Made Of
Lol, a song about chewing tobacco? I like the slower part three minutes in, reminds me of Minas Tirith (a much better Norwegian band). I’ll give it a 7/10 just for that part.
Impaled Nazarene - The Horny and the Horned
Super bland riffs, thankfully it at least has aggression. 4/10.
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
This one feels shoehorned to me, vampires may have certain dependences but this song doesn’t really make it about that. Classic song but I’d like to know specifically how it fits. 4/10.
Johnny Touch - Black Company
Holy FUCK that is some great riffing at the start. Like damn I didn’t know new bands could right riffs like that. Of course after one album they’ve already stopped per Metallum, it always seems to work out this way. Whole song was awesome, definitely checking this album out. Unfortunately, doesn’t seem thematic to me, dependence should be on-going, not a single sacrifice for eternal life or whatever this is about. 7/10.
Grave – Obsessed
Chug chug chug chug. Not bad, but I’m increasingly becoming sick of OSSDM. 4/10.
Loudness - Clockwork Toy
Not a big Loudness fan. Pretty bland Priest-y song with poor vocal lines. Not thematic either, seems to be about resisting control, not dependence. 3/10.
Kreator - Mental Slavery
One of the better songs on the album, for as little as that is worth. Nice sound, but too long and basic. 4/10.
Acid Bath – Tranquilized
Great stuff. 7/10.
Saint Vitus – Dependence
Album put me to sleep the first time I heard it, not much better now. 3/10.