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Machine · 03-05-2016, 10:15 PM

IV.I.V.VIII

Not sure what to expect beyond "metal" for this one. Primitive Man is in the related artists so it can't be too bad.

Track 1 Oh okay starting off rather quickly. Heavy ass guitar tones, loving that, also great vocal performance the tone he gets on his shrieks is just bloodcurling. This is much more uptempo then what I was expecting,I was expecting more of a dirge. Need some more of that clean guitar tone that was happening at around 3 minutes that was lovely and a need change of pace. Yay, got my wish! So I'm guessing that's the chorus then, it doesn't really matter anyhow. Great opener.

Track 2 Loving the driving rhythm section. The guitars are more or less giving a sort of atmosphere rather and worrying about being punchy which I think is a good choice as the drums are doing a fine job of that already. The chord progression right where the acoustic guitar comes in is absolutely twisted, absolutely menacing, almost reminds me a Slint-esque progression. This is way heavier than the first song, good stuff.

Track 3 This album is ****ing unrelenting in how brutally heavy it is. Each song goes farther and farther down the rabbit hole of crushing. You know the album cover to the Swans album Filth? Yeah well this is that photo personified. The vocals might be my favorite thing on this album right now, they crush. Woah complete change up right in the middle here, tempo change and stylistically from sludgy to more mid-tempo black metal influenced riffing. Back to section 1 again, love the little transitions they keep using. Are those strings I hear in the back?

Track 4 This sounds straight out the depths of hell. The sluggish riffs are just killing me. Nice wash over chorus laden guitar as well, that's nice touch. Not too much to take note of in this one, by no means is that a bad thing, just a more standard verse chorus verse chorus type deal. What's with the tin can percussion that just sort of pops in out of nowhere during some of these. Not bad, a little tame compared to the others, but not bad.

Track 5 Oh my **** that guitar tone is crazy. I couldn't imagine trying to scream like that all the time, I'd die. This sounds like a blend of sludge and BM and it rules. What effect is being used on the second guitar? It has the spacey vibe to it that I'm 100% getting behind. And nice ****ing touch withe tribal percussion coming in for a moment there. Oh this is beyond heavy at this point. And it got downright strange there un momento. This albums got it all, heavy enough for the metalheads and experimental enough for the pretentious hipsters like myself. Yeah this one is golden.

Track 6 This one is starting off straight outta Norway with some black metal flavored playing. Alright we back to America with the riff in the verse. Dare I say it... this one is downright catchy. Simple and memorable, at least so far anyways.A couple tempo changes throughout this song that are just perfection. Oh yeah, damn good closer.

Final Verdict: This was surprisingly amazing, I was just expecting to kinda like it, but I loved it all the way. Nothing is better than some metal that isn't trying to pussyfoot around metal and just be ****ing metal. And let me tell you, this album is ****ing metal as hell. This riffs were hard hitting, the drumming was powerful yet on tempo and in the pocket, the vocals were astonishingly good, and stylistically this hit the sweet spot. Some variation in the songwriting would have been nice, but honestly it didn't me liking this too much.

8/10

The Batlord · 03-05-2016, 10:51 PM

**** yeah. There are plenty of death/doom bands, but sadly few blackened sludge ones. I really can't think of a band which has nailed both genres so well, let alone combined the two so seamlessly. I see Coffinworm as sort of a new-age Celtic Frost, with Eyehategod and Darkthrone replacing Motorhead, Black Sabbath, and Discharge. Their first album is also well worth a listen, though it's not as sophisticated, and sometimes falls back on repetitive droning a bit too much. This album definitely raised the stakes for the band, and might just be the defining blackened sludge release. Totally waiting to see where they go from here.

Next rec...

Coffins - Buried Death

Machine · 03-06-2016, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

**** yeah. There are plenty of death/doom bands, but sadly few blackened sludge ones. I really can't think of a band which has nailed both genres so well, let alone combined the two so seamlessly. I see Coffinworm as sort of a new-age Celtic Frost, with Eyehategod and Darkthrone replacing Motorhead, Black Sabbath, and Discharge. Their first album is also well worth a listen, though it's not as sophisticated, and sometimes falls back on repetitive droning a bit too much. This album definitely raised the stakes for the band, and might just be the defining blackened sludge release. Totally waiting to see where they go from here.

Next rec...

Coffins - Buried Death

I'll definitely check out their other album seeing how good this one was. Also I don't really mind "repetitive" droning in my sludge metal, take Primitive Man's Scorn I love that album and there's a ton of droning on there.

Also sorry to say, but the album you recced is the only album by them not on Google Play Music, so if you want to either change it or get a link or something go for it.

The Batlord · 03-06-2016, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Machine

I'll definitely check out their other album seeing how good this one was. Also I don't really mind "repetitive" droning in my sludge metal, take Primitive Man's Scorn I love that album and there's a ton of droning on there.

Also sorry to say, but the album you recced is the only album by them not on Google Play Music, so if you want to either change it or get a link or something go for it.

Boom.

Zippyshare.com - Coffins - Buried Death.rar

Machine · 03-06-2016, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Boom.

Zippyshare.com - Coffins - Buried Death.rar

Thank ya thank ya

YorkeDaddy · 03-06-2016, 11:07 AM

Fervor

Machine · 03-07-2016, 08:28 PM

Dead As Dreams

The way Mondo has been hyping this I'm expecting like a 10/10 album.

Track 1 This one just starts right off with the guitar. Holy **** what even are these vocals?! They remind me a tad of The Body's vocals, but maybe with a bit more substance to them. There's also these chiming bells in the back of the verses that reminds of something from Liturgy's last album. The drumming is right in the pocket which is good because a lot of times the drums get off on bm records. The chord progressions are immense. Loving how progressively minded this song is, it just goes through part after part seamlessly. Is this a guitar solo??? That is not something I'm used to in a black metal album at all; on top of that it's a pretty damn interesting one too. Great great opener.

Track 2 This is the long track of the album and also the title track. It's starting with some ambient guitar feedback. Now an extremely atmospheric guitar passage is working its way in. Why can't more post-metal/post-black metal sound like this exactly? Deafheaven wishes they could write something with this impact. Okay now back to a more traditional black metal sounds, although not really it's still quite strange. I can definitely hear the Americanisms in the band's playing, but that is by no means a bad thing, in fact it achieves something not a lot of USBM can achieve, a melding of American styled metal with European black metal. I'd say this almost has a prog influence about it, the track has an ever changing scope in sound and style that I've never heard in black metal before; in fact the closest example I could provide would be Thantifaxath if they were proggier or Liturgy if they were more "metal". The sound the guitars get is almost hypnotic and psychedelic instead of chilling and wintry like lots of BM. Oh this ending is wonderful, the use of jazz chords is ****ing incredible, and provides an entire change in pace for the epic of a song. Incredible honestly.

Track 3 Got this galloping beat behind this one that is making me actually want to dance a little. The music itself feels incredibly uplifting and powerful, also it's one of the first black metal songs to be played in a straight up major key, the screams are still twisted which just adds to the empowered aesthetic. Nvm total change in pace to a slower more solemn fell which provides an interesting divide between the two parts of the song so far, not to mention the chord progression is amazingly interesting without the explanation. I like that as this song progresses it gets increasingly twisted and sinister with each passing section, it makes for some very interesting tonal interplay. Also did I mention how top notch the vocals are? Because they are... they are gut-wrenching and at the same time completely anguished, heartbreaking even. Great outro to another phenomenal song, more post-bm shaz that I can't get enough of, and some surprisingly thrash tinged stuff right at the very end.

Track 4 Oh. ****. Yes. This is already a banger straight out of the gate. Great thrashing guitars and our man the vocalist going nuts over all of the madness. Funny enough the main riff has this swinging feel to it that is so ****ing infectious it makes me want to dance. Huh' for a a black metal album this can get surprisingly dance able. There was tasty little bass interlude somewhere in there that I felt was at least worth noting. Right after there's this descending chord pattern that keeps repeating that just feels so satisfying everytime it goes around. Lots of thrash influence all over this one which I'm completely 100% digging as a change in pace for the album.

Track 5 This is really the first instance of droning black metal on this album, it reminds me of more blackened, blackened sludge metal (a la Primitive Man or Coffinworm). Alright change of pace into a more recognizable form of atmo black metal, so far this track is on par with the rest of the album. The section at around the 7 minute mark is just absolute gold, some of the most melodic, beautiful guitar playing this album has had to offer so far. Everything about this song has just come together perfectly, godammit I love this so much.

Final Verdict: Everything about this album from the performances to the songwriting was absolutely incredible. It's influence is more than visible in the modern scene of black metal bands. I don't have too much more to say than what has already been said in the review, so with that I give this...

9/10

Mondo Bungle · 03-07-2016, 10:15 PM

Krallice - Krallice

Ight that's good, I feel like I've been overloading you with recs

Machine · 03-09-2016, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Fervor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Krallice - Krallice

Ight that's good, I feel like I've been overloading you with recs

Will add both of these

Machine · 03-11-2016, 10:51 AM

Taking a quick week long break from this, it'll be back sometime next week.

03-05-2016, 10:15 PM	#251 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	IV.I.V.VIII Not sure what to expect beyond "metal" for this one. Primitive Man is in the related artists so it can't be too bad. Track 1 Oh okay starting off rather quickly. Heavy ass guitar tones, loving that, also great vocal performance the tone he gets on his shrieks is just bloodcurling. This is much more uptempo then what I was expecting,I was expecting more of a dirge. Need some more of that clean guitar tone that was happening at around 3 minutes that was lovely and a need change of pace. Yay, got my wish! So I'm guessing that's the chorus then, it doesn't really matter anyhow. Great opener. Track 2 Loving the driving rhythm section. The guitars are more or less giving a sort of atmosphere rather and worrying about being punchy which I think is a good choice as the drums are doing a fine job of that already. The chord progression right where the acoustic guitar comes in is absolutely twisted, absolutely menacing, almost reminds me a Slint-esque progression. This is way heavier than the first song, good stuff. Track 3 This album is **ing unrelenting in how brutally heavy it is. Each song goes farther and farther down the rabbit hole of crushing. You know the album cover to the Swans album Filth? Yeah well this is that photo personified. The vocals might be my favorite thing on this album right now, they crush. Woah complete change up right in the middle here, tempo change and stylistically from sludgy to more mid-tempo black metal influenced riffing. Back to section 1 again, love the little transitions they keep using. Are those strings I hear in the back? Track 4 This sounds straight out the depths of hell. The sluggish riffs are just killing me. Nice wash over chorus laden guitar as well, that's nice touch. Not too much to take note of in this one, by no means is that a bad thing, just a more standard verse chorus verse chorus type deal. What's with the tin can percussion that just sort of pops in out of nowhere during some of these. Not bad, a little tame compared to the others, but not bad. Track 5 Oh my that guitar tone is crazy. I couldn't imagine trying to scream like that all the time, I'd die. This sounds like a blend of sludge and BM and it rules. What effect is being used on the second guitar? It has the spacey vibe to it that I'm 100% getting behind. And nice ing touch withe tribal percussion coming in for a moment there. Oh this is beyond heavy at this point. And it got downright strange there un momento. This albums got it all, heavy enough for the metalheads and experimental enough for the pretentious hipsters like myself. Yeah this one is golden. Track 6 This one is starting off straight outta Norway with some black metal flavored playing. Alright we back to America with the riff in the verse. Dare I say it... this one is downright catchy. Simple and memorable, at least so far anyways.A couple tempo changes throughout this song that are just perfection. Oh yeah, damn good closer. Final Verdict: This was surprisingly amazing, I was just expecting to kinda like it, but I loved it all the way. Nothing is better than some metal that isn't trying to pussyfoot around metal and just be ing metal. And let me tell you, this album is **ing metal as hell. This riffs were hard hitting, the drumming was powerful yet on tempo and in the pocket, the vocals were astonishingly good, and stylistically this hit the sweet spot. Some variation in the songwriting would have been nice, but honestly it didn't me liking this too much. 8/10 __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

03-07-2016, 08:28 PM	#257 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Dead As Dreams The way Mondo has been hyping this I'm expecting like a 10/10 album. Track 1 This one just starts right off with the guitar. Holy ** what even are these vocals?! They remind me a tad of The Body's vocals, but maybe with a bit more substance to them. There's also these chiming bells in the back of the verses that reminds of something from Liturgy's last album. The drumming is right in the pocket which is good because a lot of times the drums get off on bm records. The chord progressions are immense. Loving how progressively minded this song is, it just goes through part after part seamlessly. Is this a guitar solo??? That is not something I'm used to in a black metal album at all; on top of that it's a pretty damn interesting one too. Great great opener. Track 2 This is the long track of the album and also the title track. It's starting with some ambient guitar feedback. Now an extremely atmospheric guitar passage is working its way in. Why can't more post-metal/post-black metal sound like this exactly? Deafheaven wishes they could write something with this impact. Okay now back to a more traditional black metal sounds, although not really it's still quite strange. I can definitely hear the Americanisms in the band's playing, but that is by no means a bad thing, in fact it achieves something not a lot of USBM can achieve, a melding of American styled metal with European black metal. I'd say this almost has a prog influence about it, the track has an ever changing scope in sound and style that I've never heard in black metal before; in fact the closest example I could provide would be Thantifaxath if they were proggier or Liturgy if they were more "metal". The sound the guitars get is almost hypnotic and psychedelic instead of chilling and wintry like lots of BM. Oh this ending is wonderful, the use of jazz chords is ing incredible, and provides an entire change in pace for the epic of a song. Incredible honestly. Track 3 Got this galloping beat behind this one that is making me actually want to dance a little. The music itself feels incredibly uplifting and powerful, also it's one of the first black metal songs to be played in a straight up major key, the screams are still twisted which just adds to the empowered aesthetic. Nvm total change in pace to a slower more solemn fell which provides an interesting divide between the two parts of the song so far, not to mention the chord progression is amazingly interesting without the explanation. I like that as this song progresses it gets increasingly twisted and sinister with each passing section, it makes for some very interesting tonal interplay. Also did I mention how top notch the vocals are? Because they are... they are gut-wrenching and at the same time completely anguished, heartbreaking even. Great outro to another phenomenal song, more post-bm shaz that I can't get enough of, and some surprisingly thrash tinged stuff right at the very end. Track 4 Oh. . Yes. This is already a banger straight out of the gate. Great thrashing guitars and our man the vocalist going nuts over all of the madness. Funny enough the main riff has this swinging feel to it that is so ing infectious it makes me want to dance. Huh' for a a black metal album this can get surprisingly dance able. There was tasty little bass interlude somewhere in there that I felt was at least worth noting. Right after there's this descending chord pattern that keeps repeating that just feels so satisfying everytime it goes around. Lots of thrash influence all over this one which I'm completely 100% digging as a change in pace for the album. Track 5** This is really the first instance of droning black metal on this album, it reminds me of more blackened, blackened sludge metal (a la Primitive Man or Coffinworm). Alright change of pace into a more recognizable form of atmo black metal, so far this track is on par with the rest of the album. The section at around the 7 minute mark is just absolute gold, some of the most melodic, beautiful guitar playing this album has had to offer so far. Everything about this song has just come together perfectly, godammit I love this so much. Final Verdict: Everything about this album from the performances to the songwriting was absolutely incredible. It's influence is more than visible in the modern scene of black metal bands. I don't have too much more to say than what has already been said in the review, so with that I give this... 9/10 __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

03-11-2016, 10:51 AM	#260 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Taking a quick week long break from this, it'll be back sometime next week. __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.