That's the second Ari Koivunen review I have to report here. Honestly, if it was up to me, that guy would be banned simply for replacing "you" with "u" IN A FUCKING REVIEW!! Don't know about you guys, but in my opinion that's EXTREMELY unacceptable.

This album marks the beginning of a new era for Doro. She made a step forward by leaving the Warlock days behind and developing a sound of her own. I appreciate her effort but it’s still not good enough.
This album sounds like an average rock album with a huge amount of sloppiness. Half of the songs have really uninspiring lyrics. They’re all about Doro dreaming or thinking about some dude she’s in love with. “Only You” could’ve been a decent song if it wasn’t for the stupid and repetitive lyrics that suck more than anything else on this record. “Something Wicked This Way Comes” is probably the weirdest track on here. It’s slow and doomy like Soundgarden’s music. Not one of those things I was expecting from Doro. I enjoy “Unholy Love” and “Broken” just because they are better than the rest of the album. Sure there are other songs that have decent lyrics and can make me move my feet and sing along. I don’t even consider them good though. If you listen carefully to every track on this album, you’ll notice that Doro’s vocals simply don’t fit in the music. She’s wasting her strong and powerful voice to sing these average rock songs. I really dislike this album but that’s just my opinion.

Utterly Crap - 10%

First thing came up to my mind when I first heard this album was "Welcome to the faggyness of Melodic Metal". Seriously ...what the fuck happened?

Well, let's face the fact and show some respect that 8 Foot got me into Metal scene back in early 2003 with their s/t song from Hate Made Me, I remember how much I enjoyed Season For Assault as it was a better, upgraded version of Hate Made Me. They were fine the way they were back then but from the last album, that's when they started going the wrong direction. I clearly remember how horribly I was disappointed with Breed The Pain. I even went to a gig, hoping that I might change my opinion towards the band, but nope, it got worse. Some of the songs were reasonably listenable but what didn't get me were the vocals. They were very weak, sounded like the singer tried to growl like Death Metal but wasn't doing what he was meant to do. Simply he sounded like he was choking. That's when I started losing my interest and respect towards the band. Sure I was an ignorant newbie back then but I knew what was crap and wasn't.

Well, let's talk about this new album. What can I say, the musicianship surely improved since the first album, vocals sound actually fine on this one but it doesn't sound original at all. It sounds like they copied typical sound of Melodic Metalcore such as The Black Dahlia Murder and added some of the typical 8 Foot riffs. Well guess what? It sounds utterly crap. Sure, you guys will earn more fans as NZ is full of Mallcore kids but you guys won't last long. It's not like you guys are going to take my opinion or care about what one of the listeners thinks so I'm not going to go on about it further but you guys will surely get bigger in such places as America.

1. Emancipate - 1 / 5
2. Thumbs, Eyesockets, Love - 2 / 5
3. We, the Termites - 0 / 5
4. Exeunt - 0 / 5
5. Crosses for Eyes - 0 / 5
6. Pirates and Capitalists - 2 / 5
7. The Great Westen Cliff-hanger - 1 / 5
8. For The Birds - 1 / 5
9. Napalm Existence - 0 / 5

Originality: 0 / 5
Musicianship: 3 / 5
Songwriting: 1 / 5
Production: 5 / 5
Lyrics: 3 / 5

(0 - Hopeless, 5 - Amazing)

Finally, even though their music has never been something I really dig or ever listen to, I always gave them extra attention but I guess it's time for me to let go. I'm not nice enough to give them a third chance, especially for a Mallcore band.

DEATH METAL! - 89%
Written by langstondrive on November 11th, 2005

Wow, I randomly picked up this album today because it was on sale, and was pleasantly surprised, as a huge understatement. My search for fresh-sounding death metal has been satisfied with this gem. Dismember truly stand out with their riffs, which are brutal, technical, catchy, and all other good things one can say. The drumming, bass and vocals are solid, but are clearly based around the devestating riffs.

The album opens with "Of Fire", and introduces a theme not often seen in the sludgy pits of death metal - melody. The riffs are well structured, with a lead and rhythm guitar supporting each other. The vocals are aggressive, and the singer makes up for the lack of a growly "edge" with pure aggression. Continually head-banging throughout, Dismember absolutely tear the 12 tracks on here to shreds, and in doing so, give death metal in general a template from which to build future melodic riffs into extremely heavy music.

I know Bekhira before this release just from the Split with Desolation Triumphalis and was really surprised by the high quality in which they present their music on their first full length release. The music is played in a up-tempo style in a raw way, which is maybe rather typical for many French releases. The music transports a lot of hateful emotions what I personally expect from good black metal. Further they create with some slower parts an acoustic guitars an amazing atmosphere and the sparingly used keyboard fits really good in the general view.

All in All Bekhira play rather typical Black Metal in the vain of Kristallnacht, in good sound qualitiy.

Ok, so I heard there was this cool new band with a new album called Dethklok which had members from Norway (a land of great metal) and the USA (a great land) so I thought that was pretty cool. That sounded pretty cool because the profile says it’s Melodic Death Metal. I’m thinking Death Metal is cool and melody is cool too. I slide this bad boy into my CD player and I’m expecting to be pumping in a minute but when the music hits my ears I thinking WTF? What’s wrong with it you ask? Everything! The thing is that this doesn’t sound like metal it sounds like something that brothers would make if they read a description of metal from wikipedia and then played some instruments.

The vokills have no killing power whatsoever. They are totally weak and sound like some guy wheezing into the mike! And also it said Melodic Death Metal so I was thinking this would be like Death Metal songs written around strong melodies and they had melodies right but like a pop song with catchy hooks so that was weird cause the riffs sound like any form of music. It’s like they got just plain ol’ boring riffs and put distortion on them so they’d be sweet metal riffs but it didn’t work.

The drums sound like sandpaper blocks more than a righteous shirtless drummer crashing sticks into heavy metal skins of justice. They sounded dry and kind of stop and starty but they used some double bass peddles because this is Death Metal and Death Metal has double bass peddles, but then it has stuff like long Power Metal Solos in the middle Death Metal songs so I don’t get that at all. It’s like it’s out of place. Actually this is what the whole thing is like some guys who don’t really know what metal is all about but so they take everything that physically constitutes metal and mix it together but it’s like they lack the headbanging righteous spirit of Metal and so when they make it it’s only an empty shell of air vibrations.

I give this a 0% percent based on the music which is a failure of ATTEMPTED METAL on every level…

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=170953

This one's just funny, because it's a thinly veield disguise on the true intent of the review (the 0% makes it obvious).


Dethklok's great at making metal nerds writhe and squirm.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=170953

This one's just funny, because it's a thinly veield disguise on the true intent of the review (the 0% makes it obvious).

Dethklok's great at making metal nerds writhe and squirm.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1391#3417

First word is misspelled and he doesn't even use spaces between commas and periods. Annoying formatting, too.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1391#3417

First word is misspelled and he doesn't even use spaces between commas and periods. Annoying formatting, too.

Purged.

Expunged.

Luca Turilli is on LSD - 95%
Written by Symphony_Of_Terror on February 2nd, 2003

This is the oddest sounding album I have ever heard in my life. I don't know weather this is Epic Power Metal or Atmospheric Apocalyptic Mood Metal. This album sounds like Aliced In Wonderland, A Nightmare Before Christmas manifested themselves into songs and met our good friend Metat. This album is definatly like listening or experiancing a movie, there is so much going on, and its so fast. The choral vocals at times seem like the world is ending, while at other times the keyboards sounds like Luca is playing the chaos theory on them. Once all the mayhem is over, here comes the power metal parts, the epic power metal parts of the song like in rhapsody's where you feel the energy run through you body. Then mayhem and atmospheric elements come back. This is the oddest album of all time, I don't know weather to fear it or embrace it. But I do want to own it. The musical technique's and qualities of this album are amazing. Fear this ablum, and listening to it in a dark room alone and start to freak out! Definatly better than Rhapsody's new album Power Of The DragonFlame.

Ass kicking black fuckin' metal! - 94%
Written by Warriorofmoderndeath on December 29th, 2002

This is probably one of my favorite Black metal albums from the 90's this cd is everything good including intense and power and for those of you who are into riffs yes you will find some riffs here! 2 of the tracks sound alike but that is about the only thing I can find that would make this a turn down and its not a big turn down anyways.
The albums sound is dirty and evil sounding,with lots of blast beats and evil sounding riffs,the vocals are dark and obscure,the sound is insane and catchy as well.
The album kicks you off with "Earth's last picture"and right away you know that this album is going to be some brutal material right there,"Black Winged" sounds simliar to the last track but its a little faster and more technical as well.
I recommend this cd to any fan of both old school and new school black metal..I gurantee that you will like it.

best tracks:Total Death,Earth's last picture,The Serpents harvest,Blasphemer

Dead. He misspelled "aging" in the title too (that's reason alone to kill it).

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Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): aged; ag·ing or age·ing

excellent - 93%
Written by cweed on May 15th, 2005

One of the reasons I think people enjoy Bal-Sagoth so much is because they are so original in what they do. The structure of the songs, the atmosphere, the lyrics, the concepts, the entire Bal-Sagoth experience is pretty incredible. Yes, the band's sound is pretty cheesy and by listening to them you feel more and more dungeons and dragons nerd-like by the minute, but hey, at least for me, that's part of the fun, and I really enjoy a band that can do all of that and pull it off well.
I remember a long time ago when I first the band that they had pretty weird lyrics, so I went to their website to try and read what the lyrics actually were and I was suprised to find a glossary on the site that was an index to all the characters, terms, and events that took place within the world that the music of Bal-Sagoth was about, and as if this wasn't enough, I found a map of this world as well! I'm sure if Byron (the vocalist and lyricist) wanted to, he could probably write a dozen novels at least off of the material presented on the website and in his songs. But anyway, onto the music.
The actual music is quite good, it can change in an instant from an atmospheric spoken word only part into a spastic hyperblast drenched in symphonic keyboards, which brings me to my next point- what I always found interesting about Bal-Sagoth was the fact that instead of using keyboards in the background like many other bands do, Bal-Sagoth use the keyboards as the main instrument that carries the melody, with the guitars not exactly in the background but definately somewhat overpowered by the vastness of the keyboard sound. Personally, I believe this was a wise decision, because it makes the band sound pretty rad. If you've never heard Bal-Sagoth and what I've described of them appeals to you, you should definately check them out because they are amazing. This is the only album I have heard of theirs, but I'm pretty sure all of them are just as good as this one, if not better.

Except the fact that I am a Sodom lover, morbert's review is rather superficial.
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=160652

Intense! - 93%
Written by FrostOfTheBlack on February 20th, 2007

I'm giving this album a 95 because it's an intense piece of modern thrash metal.

I bought this album from a lot, not really expecting anything big from them. I hadn't even heard of them prior to listening to it. Upon listening, I was blown away. This is some intense thrash metal that is VERY well produced, as I would expect for someone who also produced Arch Enemy and other well-known bands.

What to expect? I am not a big fan of thrash metal but the album that this sounds most like for me is Exodus' "Tempo of the Damned," another intense thrash metal album. The drums on here are obviously put on triggers, but they sound great. The bass is easy to hear, and the guitars are tight and have a perfect amount of distortion. I took off a few points because the vocals are only mediocre. They fit the album very well, but they are too high-pitched and aren't very menacing - I expected someone with a slightly deeper voice.

The opening song, "Burn" should give you a good idea of what to think of this album. A slow fade in with a nice riff eventually brings in another guitar and a real simple but fast drum riff. The chorus is infectious: "Burn, burn, burn" and really makes you want to rock out. Then it ends with the line "Ash to ash, dust to f-king duust". Overall the song benefits from a strong rhythm section (bass & guitars), neat riffs on guitar, and aggressive vocals.

Overall I recommend this album for fans of Exodus, Overkill, Horfixion, Slayer, Megadeth, etc. Intense!

Highlights: Burn, Killing Peace, Destroyer of Worlds, Prayer for the Dead.