ORIGINAL: MetalAddict

Any1 here had a chance to listen to LoG's new CD Wrath?

 
it would appear to be streaming in full for free here:
http://www.myspace.com/lambofgod
 
not bought it myself yet, don't want to listen to it until I have, but both Metal Hammer and Rock Sound gave it 9/10
 
acquired KMFDM Vs. Skold today, I'll post a review once I've given it a few listens and digested it.

ORIGINAL: offspringofpumpkins

acquired KMFDM Vs. Skold today, I'll post a review once I've given it a few listens and digested it.

thanks for this nugget of information, I actually went into town wanting to purchase this thinking it was out, either I was wrong or hmv are just rubbish... going to have to be the unlawful way instead - for now!

For those of you interested int the sort of new wave of Death Metal

the band is from england - The eyes of a traitor

Had a chance to listen to 'Everyday Demons' by 'The Answer'....




Awesome album....got to say hope they can find the time out of their busy touring schedule with AC/DC to play Download again !!!

http://www.theanswer.ie   
 
http://www.myspace.com/theanswerrock

ORIGINAL: debbywebby

Had a chance to listen to 'Everyday Demons' by 'The Answer'....




Awesome album....got to say hope they can find the time out of their busy touring schedule with AC/DC to play Download again !!!

http://www.theanswer.ie   

http://www.myspace.com/theanswerrock

This album most certainly kicks ass. I agree hopefully they will be at download again where they belong, rumours suggest good chance of this happening. Lets fookin' hope so.

Any1 here had a chance to listen to LoG's new CD Wrath?

It's good album, but personally I don't think it's as good as Sacrament.

Limp Bizkit : Chocolate Startfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water.



If you were 12 in the year 2000, this was the funk soundtrack that got you through secondary school in the uk, and made you remember that you were and still are in fact, cooler and more likely to produce offspring more than anyone else you hated once you got hold of your gcses.

Many years later many "tr00-metallers" will encourage you to turn away from this album and instead spend spare time inside listening to songs about burning churches because its "good music by bad people" and bitch on the internet about how much raprock sucks. The more casual yet still hardened metal fan will tell you to check out Blood Mountain instead of this Limp Bizkit garbage because remembering a meandering, choppy and pointless jam and slapping drums and lists of things for vocals on the top of it, forgetting the crushing hooks and punches of Remission and Leviathon makes it COMPELLING. (IM SORRY MASTODON. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO CRACK THE SKYE.DONT KILL ME) The guy who buys NME that adores babyshambles and yet, also enjoyed Metallica at leeds festival last year will just pass all Bizkit off Slipknot saddo garbage compared to Radiohead, and so does that guy that wears that scarf all the time that thinks Mat Bellamy is the best guitarist eva because he can hold a riff for more than 2 bars without going over fret 12 thus making it fret****ingnonindie terra tory. Even Metal Hammer so sad enough to spite the Bizkit in one of its recent readers polls, despite giving Metal Hammer number one band My Chemical Romance coverage a few months or years ago, tapering along in this "Rap and Rock together wasnt ever cool ever" message. Even with fretboard trickery, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium and some other metalcore bands may attempt to replicate, but will never rise to the brilliance of Durst and co's messages of teenage life : those of rebellion (My Way), withstanding verbal abuse(Full Nelson), optimisim (The One, Itll Be OK), friends (My Generation), lost love (Hold On), millenium **** (Getcha Groove On), ****ed up **** (Hot Dog), and shutting the **** up (Rollin : air raid and urban assault Vehicle).

And when you find out the world hates on Limp Bizkit for its rap rock glamourization...you gotta be sure that Anthrax and Public Enemy had a take on it prior. And it was great.


So if you gotta bad thing to say about this album, get out more.

4/5

The review was great until you mentioned "Durst's messages of teenage rebellion" don't get me wrong I love this album and I put in on alot just to bounce around my room to / shoot people on TF2.
But if you think for a second that the lyrics are anything other than ****, you havea problem.

ORIGINAL: Bamshimgang

Muse - Any album

0/10  Pure shite


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People like you make me laugh You're views are rendered null and void due to the fact you have Hollywood Undead in your pic. Better look next time!

Last few I've bought;

Dream Theater - Greatest Hit (and 21 other really cool songs!) 5/10
The songs themselves are superb and fully worthy of being called greatest hits. However, separating out the heavier songs (that IMO Dream Theater are best at) and a set of acoustic type songs, onto two separate discs, disjoints the whole thing. I'm a non fan of Dream Theater and would've prefered more of the 'traditional' Dream Theater songs, with acoustic songs thrown in. A whole disc of acoustic songs is hard work to get into. So, basically, good songs, but being an outside fan, it's not a well balanced intro to Dream Theater.

Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory 7/10
It's a fairly standard Hammerfall album, so if you not a fan of them or power metal, nothing will change. Only thing they've done is steered slightly away from full on power metal, and more into trad metal, Saxon/Priest type territory. And some of the songs seem simpler in structure to the rest of their stuff. They're definitely missing Stefan Elmgren (ex lead guitarist)
 
Lamb of God - Wrath - 9/10
Seems like a follow on in style to Sacrament really, but cracking album. Not a weak member in that band, every department superb.

ORIGINAL: SteviB

Limp Bizkit : Chocolate Startfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water.



If you were 12 in the year 2000, this was the funk soundtrack that got you through secondary school in the uk, and made you remember that you were and still are in fact, cooler and more likely to produce offspring more than anyone else you hated once you got hold of your gcses.

Many years later many "tr00-metallers" will encourage you to turn away from this album and instead spend spare time inside listening to songs about burning churches because its "good music by bad people" and bitch on the internet about how much raprock sucks. The more casual yet still hardened metal fan will tell you to check out Blood Mountain instead of this Limp Bizkit garbage because remembering a meandering, choppy and pointless jam and slapping drums and lists of things for vocals on the top of it, forgetting the crushing hooks and punches of Remission and Leviathon makes it COMPELLING. (IM SORRY MASTODON. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO CRACK THE SKYE.DONT KILL ME) The guy who buys NME that adores babyshambles and yet, also enjoyed Metallica at leeds festival last year will just pass all Bizkit off Slipknot saddo garbage compared to Radiohead, and so does that guy that wears that scarf all the time that thinks Mat Bellamy is the best guitarist eva because he can hold a riff for more than 2 bars without going over fret 12 thus making it fret****ingnonindie terra tory. Even Metal Hammer so sad enough to spite the Bizkit in one of its recent readers polls, despite giving Metal Hammer number one band My Chemical Romance coverage a few months or years ago, tapering along in this "Rap and Rock together wasnt ever cool ever" message. Even with fretboard trickery, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium and some other metalcore bands may attempt to replicate, but will never rise to the brilliance of Durst and co's messages of teenage life : those of rebellion (My Way), withstanding verbal abuse(Full Nelson), optimisim (The One, Itll Be OK), friends (My Generation), lost love (Hold On), millenium **** (Getcha Groove On), ****ed up **** (Hot Dog), and shutting the **** up (Rollin : air raid and urban assault Vehicle).

And when you find out the world hates on Limp Bizkit for its rap rock glamourization...you gotta be sure that Anthrax and Public Enemy had a take on it prior. And it was great.


So if you gotta bad thing to say about this album, get out more.

4/5

Why are you so annoying?

metamorphosis- papa roach
great album best of 09 so far!
songs to reccomend from it:
Hollywood whore
Lifeline
march out of the darkness
state of emerancy
 

Nothing More - The Few Not Fleeting



Can't quite comprehend how to describe this album right now, least not in any way that will do it justice. I just think it's awesome, a good fusion of styles sounding like a mash-up of Coheed & Cambria, The Mars Volta, Breaking Benjamin and Billy Talent. To me, it just sounds fresh, and so much more interesting to everything else at the moment, definately worth a look if you're wanting something new to listen to

4.5/5

Key Tracks: Salem, Fat Kid, Bullets And Blue Eyes

http://www.myspace.com/nothingmoremusic

Gamabomb - Citizen Brain



Citizen Brain has 15 tracks jam packed full of zombie, alien, thrashing, drinking, gaming mayhem. First of all i'll just say if your not a big thrash fan you most probably won't like this album, but if you already like bands such as municipal waste, bonded by blood, evile etc check em out.

I would say this album is kinda unique compared to alot of the new wave thrash albums that have been coming out lately, were as bands like municipal waste have more speedy riff based songs with some tiny bits of lead work, gamabomb has the speeding riffs and the technical guitar work, which for me as a guitarist makes the songs more interesting. Alot of the tracks contain sweep picking, tapping and more technical guitar work than you would regularly see on thrash albums, at one part in the song 'Final Fight' Domo Dixon on lead guitar, plays some mario sound fx and goes into the tetris theme in the solo which I found really cool. The lyrics provided by Philly Byrne are pretty much humour based throughout the album which I enjoyed, he does get a bit high pitched every now and again but as a big judas priest fan I don't mind that sound in vocals. Most of the tracks on the album are definately influenced by zombie movies, alchohol, comics and stuff like that, which for me is cool cause i'm into all that stuff. Unlike some modern thrash albums Gamabomb doesn't seem to be riping off any tracks from past thrash bands, but you can here the anthrax influence in there riffs. The only thing I can complain about on this album is that some of the riffs get a bit repetative but other than that good production, nice front cover, fun vocals and great lead guitar work, definately one of my favourite new wave thrash albums.

Best songs: Final Fight, Zombi Brew, Zombie Blood Nightmare, Return Of The Technodrome and Hammer Slammer.
Worst songs: Global Warming.

I shall give it 4/5 woofs.

o.o oh happy day I found a review thread :P

I might just have to read some of these and head hunt for, writers for my review site :P

Daath - The Concealers



Released the same day as Chimaira's latest full-length, Daath's 'The Concealers' was always going to be the underdog of the 2 releases, however, to ignore this album is to miss out on some top-notch metal.

Going by the band name (Daath - looks very close to Death) & the fact that Dying Fetus/Chimaira drum-god Kevin Talley is now manning the drum-stool in the band, you can forgive assumptions that this will be another modern death(core) band & album.

However, Daath do not bog themselves down in genre restrictions, sure there's blast beats & cookie monster vocals to be found, but there's also abundant groove riffery, plenty of understandable (but not clean) vocals in most songs & top-notch soloing. This is a band where all members deserve recognition. Tying in with the musicianship on display, mention also has to be given to Jason Suecof's production. Since Trivium's 'Ascendancy' I've felt Jason was on his way to becoming a modern version of Scott Burns / Ross Robinson, where every release produced by him would have his 'sound' (in this case, a too polished/clean sound for the bands he was producing). However, something changed for this release - I don't know what, but 'The Concealers' sounds a lot less sterile or pedestrian compared to other albums he produced - this is for the better as the album has a raw sound to match the content.

Right from the opening track 'Sharpen The Blades', this is an album that refuses to take prisoners; the songs are catchy enough to stick in the head from listen 1, yet those who will put the album on repeat will pick up new facets/quirks to the songs. Also refreshing is the fact that while each track has a signature 'Daath Sound', they don't blend into each other, due to the band not sticking rigidly to a particular song template - something far too many identikit 'me too' metal acts are guilty of.

Disappointed by the speed of Chimaira's The Infection? - wanted more mid & fast paced tracks? Then go get this album, & make sure to see Daath when they hit the UK.

Top tracks:

Sharpen The Blades
Self-Corruption Manifesto
The Worthless
Translucent Potency
Wilting On The Vine
Silenced

ORIGINAL: ryandevlin

The Offspring - Rise and Fall Rage and Grace



Their first studio album in almost a decade and we couldn't have asked for much more. The only problem is most of the riffs and sounds are the same. However the pop punk masterpeices of Hammerhead and Half Tantrum soon make up for that. There  isn't a boring slow moment in this record. Pure pop-punk excitement at it's finest.

7/10.

This is one of my faves now, can't stop listening to it!

From the new stuff i've got recently
 
Your Demise- Ignorance Never Dies 9/10 Tracks To Hear:
Nothing But Regret,Burnt Tongues,Ignorance Never Dies
 
Chimara- The Infection 2/10
 
Just really bad, really not feeling it.
 
Hatebreed- For The Lions 7/10
 
Some really good covers, especially sepultura's refuse/resist and slayers ghost's of war
 
Gallows- Grey Britain 9/10
Tracks: Leeches,Black Eyes,London Is The Reason,Graves

Man Raze's Surreal album is far more punk than anyone would expect, go grab it.

Dig Out Your Soul by Oasis is their best album since Morning Glory (I know Don't Believe The Truth and Heathen Chemistry were too, but they're just rising and rising this band).

Not gonna attempt to defend Chris Cornell's album from critics since they won't listen but I'll say that the singles that have had music videos are a poor representative of the album. Check out "The Enemy" - that one even has some heavy guitars in it at one point, they come out of nowhere.

ORIGINAL: the_deeper_vileness

Gallows- Grey Britain 9/10
Tracks: Leeches,Black Eyes,London Is The Reason,Graves

 
man i love that album,
id prolly give it 9/10 too