I love this album, so much better than Christ Illusion and the ones before it. They sound mean and metal here, up there with Endgame.
World Painted Blood
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poundingmetal74
Demons Will Fly
Was this given the new standard of Rubin's productions with insane compression and clipping ala Death Mag.?
Vicious Robbie
Faithful Neon Dreamer
I've been listening to the album a few times and it's definitely their best material in a while. Still, I feel there's some filler like Psychopathy Red, Not of This God and Public Display of Dismemberment, songs that are the standard Slayer fare. I think the album shines in the slower tunes as the band can delve into more interesting stuff (Americon, Beauty through Order, Playing with Dolls and Human Strain). The beginning is fantastic with three great fast tunes but I believe the album loses steam by the end. Nonetheless, a good effort 
Psychonaut
God Of Emptiness
I'll have to check this out. The last one wsa pretty bland so this one was hanging low on the priority list.
KMADD
The Ancient Metalhead
sixxswine
rockandrollazine.blogspot
It's damn good! And the production is great. Very roomy and with lots of space in between the instruments. I love the fast songs of this one. They sound really intense.
Funny: my brother is married to a Chinese from the northeastern city Harbin. He was married there and invited me to come to the wedding in Harbin China in October 2001. While I was there I was told of a concentration camp in the vicinity where during the war the Japanese did brutal experiments on prisoners.
After reading an interview with Kerry and Tom about the new album they told about the lyrics of a song called 'Unit 731'. And it's subject is the experiments in the concentration camp near Harbin. Weird hu?
More info? See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
A quote:
"Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).
More than ten thousand people, from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai, were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731.
More than 95 percent of the victims who died in the camp were Chinese and Korean, including both civilian and military. The remaining 5 percent were South East Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of the prisoners of war from the Allies of World War II."
Funny: my brother is married to a Chinese from the northeastern city Harbin. He was married there and invited me to come to the wedding in Harbin China in October 2001. While I was there I was told of a concentration camp in the vicinity where during the war the Japanese did brutal experiments on prisoners.
After reading an interview with Kerry and Tom about the new album they told about the lyrics of a song called 'Unit 731'. And it's subject is the experiments in the concentration camp near Harbin. Weird hu?
More info? See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
A quote:
"Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).
More than ten thousand people, from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai, were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731.
More than 95 percent of the victims who died in the camp were Chinese and Korean, including both civilian and military. The remaining 5 percent were South East Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of the prisoners of war from the Allies of World War II."
Platinum Maze
Random Star
Well, before I visited the region I never heard of that either, and I studied history. There are many things in the history of Asia that 'we' in Europe and the US don't know, or know very little about. That's normal I guess. Time is limited and we have to make choices.
Thoth-Amon
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Does anyone know what they are mumbling at the beginning of world painted blood? i replayed it a few times and i couldn't figure it out, didn't sound like English.
Apparently it's a Navajo Indian talking in his native tongue about the end of the world
Hail The Wizard!
Baptised by Gasoline
poundingmetal74
Demons Will Fly
Man, go figure! I hadn't heard of this until a week ago when I stumped upon a link from an almost unrelated wiki article and started reading. Really fascinating stuff.
I think I read that unit 731 was inspired by the nazis, no?
sixxswine
rockandrollazine.blogspot
I like this album just as much as Christ Illusion maybe slightly more. I can't complain...
Thoth-Amon
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poundingmetal74
Demons Will Fly
I know that, I meant where Unit 731 got the idea. Germany and Japan were allied, perhaps Japan got the idea from Germany to create the camp?
Hail The Wizard!
Baptised by Gasoline
Maybe it's because I think flesh storm is a super awesome song, but both albums are great.
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