I feel bad giving “Felony” a 5 now that I’ve listened to the 3 songs on the album that were worth a shit like a hundred times, the same goes for this new piece of brutality. “The Great Stone War” is again, and I can’t stress eought, what Winds of Plague is supposed to sound like. There are a little more “orchestral” parts to it but that makes it all the better. The self titled track being the one that I have listened to the most has a very bizzare beginning, but like a lot of the songs, seems to paint a picture with its rythem. “The Great Stone War” beginning sounds like you are approaching a throne room with a bunch of merciless soliders all lined up and a overly decorated king loungeing in his chair at the end of the long room. “Chest and Horns” sounds very arabian, I picture myself riding through the desert, maybe chasing some locals with my Alitar like white cloak/robe/hoodie on threating to behead them with my trusty scimitar. But it does what music is suppoed to do, entertain, in more then one way. However, at the same time, it does only have 3-4 precious tracks that are worth listening to.
Summary: Audio and Visual, average album but makes up for it in a couple songs.
Songs to check: The Great Stone War, Chest and Horns, Forged In Fire, Classic Struggle.
Worth It
8★/10★
Being that it is alphabetically first in the many albums I downloaded I’ll start with AGATG’s new album Portals. Instantly the game Portal comes to mind for me but whatever. I can’t say that it sounds like any other AGATG album. It has a similar overall theme that makes you thing AGATG when you hear it without seeing that it is. The vocals are a little more boring then what I like. It lacks a lot of the higher screams that “The Game Of Life” had. Some of the songs sounded happy at times, which is rare for metal generally but nice to hear at the same time. I can’t say that I was pleased with the album but it has enough good tracks to keep it alive. Not as bad as “Felony” in comparison but “The Game of Life” and “Hits From The Bow” were much better.
Songs to check: The 42nd Ego, My Cup’s Half Empty, Violence In Fluid: Triceratops, To Playact In Static.
Summary: Not win, not fail. Same sound different album. But with something missing.
Decent
7★/10★
Tags:
Arsonists Get All The Girls,
deathcore,
Portals
Well like most bands you ether start off bad and get better, or you start off good and get worse. Its a little early to predict but Suicide Silence may be taking an alternate route of making “decent” albums and flat-lining there. The Cleansing had a group of 4-5 songs that were good (No Pitty for a Coward, Unanswered, Green Monster, Bludgeoned to Death, The Fallen) and No Time To Bleed does somewhat the same. It sounds like Suicide Silence which is definitely a major plus these days. Not that other bands should sound like them, but bands should hover around a similar style and not change too much. They are however a more mainstream deathcore band which I always like to not get too attached to. I say mainstream because everyone jumped on the No Pitty for a Coward band wagon. Good album none the less.
Songs to check: Lifted, Wake Up, Wasted, …and Then She Bled.
Summary: Sounds like the band should, mainstream deathcore, good overall.
Worth It
8★/10★
Tags:
deathcore,
no time to bleed,
suicide silence
I am somewhat influenced by the reason of that I had to pay $19 for 2 people to go see this. But that has nothing to do with the movie. As above, it takes place in Nazi occupied France and somewhat follows the crew humorously named the “Inglourious Basterds”. They are a misfit crew of mid-southern American soldiers, some with personalities, some without. The movie is broken down into 5 chapters which follows a plot…
… to kill Hitler and his high ranking officials in a movie theater with the use of the 1000’s of rolls of film and extra explosives just in case. Its a little too brutal to be a comedy and too “silly” to be a drama which makes it wired to watch. A large bit of it is in subtitles, which is fine with me personally. However, when they say “Merci” in french, why-the-fuck does it display as “Merci” right after subtitles that were English? Fun? I think not. The action really doesn’t kick in until the last 15 minutes unlike the trailers somewhat depict. Not a bad movie, but not what I expected it to be.
Summary: Tarantino war flick, slow, subtitles, not a comedy, not a drama.
Decent
7★/10★
Tags:
Inglourious Basterds,
Nazi,
Quentin Tarantino
Of course we all love Emmure but we all know deep down inside that Goodbye to the Gallows was their best and will probably remain their best album. Also we know that the only good song on The Respect Issue was Sound Wave Superior because it was made to be a good song for an album if you know what I mean. Again Emmure pumps out another album that seems to disappoint the fans again. But all they do is blow air around, so you may not want to listen to them. But the critics also have stated that it was lacking and sounding less like music, blah blah blah. This is not an album you want to go blow $10 or however much cd’s are these days, this is the album that you go on iTunes and buy the 3-4 decent songs. I think that it was rushed like the respect issue, all three albums are a year apart and I’m thinking thats why the overall quality of the product is so low. Hopefully they will put out something that is close to GttG quality. But for now, you have this.
Songs to check: Bars In Astoria, You Sunk My Battleship, I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me Into Casper.
Summary: iTunes or some other source is your friend here, not another CD for the stack, nothing new or amazing.
Average
5★/10★
Tags:
Emmure,
Felony
