Unblessing The Purity Review

I dont want to be thread-police but why dont you keep this postal-talk in the "tomorrow-thread" so we can keep this thread cleaner?
I waited four days to read this topic and i thought i would be left behind but 50% of the posts are no reviews, but postal-complaints etc.
 
Well, I am on my 6th listen, and to be honest, I am somewhat disappointed. I guess that this album is more straight up Death metal? I have no idea because really I don't get into much Death metal aside from Bloodbath. They were different from all of the other Death metal that I knew out there, but this seems to put them into all of the other Death metal. I like it, but definitely not nearly as much as the other releases. I miss Swanö's chugging type riffs, ha. I never thought that I would say that I miss him, but I miss that element for sure. One thing that I miss are the bad ass pinch harmonics. Swanö used some fucking awesome pinch harmonics in some of his songs on Resurrection Through Carnage that I loved. Pretty sure it was his songs. Also, I loved Anders' pinch harmonics on Draped In Disease from the last album. The pinch harmonics in Sick Salvation don't really present that same awesomeness of feeling. I hope that this album will grow on me over time. As I said, I like the album, but it just doesn't do as much for me as I was hoping and expecting.

I really love Mike's delivery on the first two tracks, but on the last two he doesn't do anything special with the delivery. I am not speaking about the sound of his vocals, just the way in which he says the lyrics. If I had to put the tracks in order of which I like the most right now, it would be like this: Weak Aside, Blasting The Virginborn, Mouth Of Empty Praise, Sick Salvation. The track that has grown on me the most with each listen has been Mouth Of Empty Praise. I like the end because it sounds so creepy.

Generally, I have not cared for the new soloing really. They don't seem to go anywhere. For me, they are just shredding solos with no emotion except to just shred, ha. I like the solo around the 1 minute mark in Mouth Of Empty Praise though. It seems to have a little more feeling than most of the other solos. The solo at the end of the track is also alright. I don't know if it is considered a solo, but the part around 1:40 on Blasting The Virginborn is also sweet. It actually has feeling to me. I guess it is a pre-solo of sorts, but I don't like the solo that follows very much.

So, that is my take so far. Everything could change eventually though, so I may have a completely different opinion sometime down the road. We will see. Again, I do enjoy it, but it is definitely not like the other releases for me.
 
Ha, I just noticed a pretty sweet pinch harmonic in Blasting The Virginborn at 2:47, and it occurs again towards the very end. There is another one at the end of the solo that is weak though.
 
Deadlift said:
Good production and good vocals. The music is performed well. The problem for me is that I can't remember the songs after hearing them several times. Kind of ordinary and pretty boring sounding death metal. I miss songs like Eaten or Like Fire that you remember. 3/5 (I only give it 3 becasue Mike sings very good on this) Maybe I need to listen more...
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Eaten is a cliche stereotypical generic chug fest death metal song. I'm really glad there is nothing like Eaten on this e.p because while not being a bad song is just not fitting for the band.
 
Death Delirium said:
Eaten is a cliche stereotypical generic chug fest death metal song. I'm really glad there is nothing like Eaten on this e.p because while not being a bad song is just not fitting for the band.
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word.
my bandmembers wanted to play "eaten" at our concerts, and after 50 times of practicing that song, it gets extremely boring, because, as stated, it's a chugga-chugga-no-big-changes-to-keep-it-interesting-song...it's come to the point where i can't even listen to it anymore.
i actually always dreaded practicing this song...
weak aside would be awesome to cover...:headbang:
 
I love the chugging that Dan used in his songs, but I have always believed Eaten to be the most overrated song. If not for the lyrics, it wouldn't be as big of a favourite that it is. When the chugging was tasteful, it was great. Like Fire and The Soulcollector in particular.
 
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