![]() ![]() He wrote three songs for the new album, while Webster and Barrett wrote four each. Rutan’s influence on the band’s sound is immediately obvious. Given all of this, Erik Rutan of Ha te Eternal (who had produced the band’s albums Kill, Evisceration Plague, Torture, and Red Before Black) came on board as a live lead guitarist, and as of this album, has joined as a full member. His house caught fire, and was discovered to be basically an arsenal, including 50 shotguns, multiple semi-automatic rifles, and several flamethrowers. Part of that was due to extra-musical upheaval Pat O’Brien was arrested in 2018 for breaking and entering and assaulting a sheriff’s deputy. ![]() Violence Unimagined is Cannibal Corpse‘s 15th album, their first in four years. The only members who’ve been around since Day One are bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz, who also write most of the band’s infamous lyrics. Pat O’Brien joined in 1997, and stayed until last year Barrett, who’d left in 1997, returned in 2005. Guitarists have come and gone, too original lead guitarist Bob Rusay left in 1993, replaced by Rob Barrett, while front-line partner Jack Owen stayed until 2004. Back when bands went on tour, they were one of the most reliable live draws in the genre, heading out on the road every year, usually as a headliner (because who would want them opening the show)? In keeping with their institutional status, they’re a brand name as much as a collection of musicians - they changed vocalists after their fourth album, with Chris Barnes leaving to form the vastly inferior Six Feet Under and the genial, thick-necked George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher coming on board. They’re an institution their debut album, Eaten Back to Life, turned 30 last year. You can’t keep the wanderer down.Cannibal Corpse are the best-selling death metal band in the world. Geister is the perfect follow up in that it trades length for brevity, grandeur for aggression, largess for punch, and lots of indecipherable screaming at the beginning of every song. Wintherr is a generous man, gifting us a compendium of long, atmospheric masterworks last year with Im Wald, and then immediately following it up with this. This one belongs in that category as well. One of the best black metal albums of the year, by far. On his latest album, Pale Swordsman, the Crying Orc picks up where he left off, but plucks some of the extraneous pedals from the rose to make for a truly fantastic piece of black metal art. A raw black metal opus, the album mixed its pure devotion to rawness and riffs with a curious penchant for sad and romantic poetry almost bordering on goth or emo. “Īt the end of 2019, on the eve of our pandemic-era nightmare, this solo Ukrainian project put out the brilliant Night & Love. The production is good here, a little polished, but hey, that’s them. There are some weird moments, but all in all it’s basically what the Crown are known for. “So, here’s the deal, with a healthy dose of doom, hardcore punk, but this is a death/thrash record, and not a bad one at all. “įrom our resident African Grey’s commentary on Royal Destroyer: “The overall richness of this release is stunning, be it the staircasing whorl of “Slowly Sawn,” the weird spatial patterns of what should’ve been the album closer, “Overtorture,” the thematic red herring of “Follow the Blood” or the fact that the latter’s lead at 3:03 evokes-against all fucking odds-Crimson Glory’s Transcendence. ![]() Paint The Sky With Blood by Bodom After Midnight To end his career with these two songs is neither a disgrace nor a high point Bodom fans will surely appreciate them as the bonus that they are, and rue the lack of further Laiho compositions.” Laiho’s guitar playing is more fluid than technically flamboyant here, but that is also true of much of his past work. The keyboards are not as prominent as on some past COB albums, but still get locked down onto the guitars at key moments, repeating one of their most distinctive quirks. The new rhythm section, ex-Santa Cruz bassist Mitja Toivonen and Paradise Lost drummer Waltteri Väyrynen, keep up the high-tempo pace of these final two Laiho compositions. “Unsurprisingly, the two original songs here, “Paint the Sky With Blood” and “Payback’s a Bitch,” could well have fit onto any past COB album. Bodom After Midnight – Paint the Sky With Bloodįrom our review of Paint the Sky With Blood: Sure, most of you will know about the new Cannibal Corpse, but that doesn’t mean we can’t boost the death metal titans’ new album one more time! Along with them you’ve got some solid death-thrash, the swan song of Lake Bodom, and my two favorite albums of the year so far (scroll to the last two). While there’s definitely a lot of good stuff coming out today, there are just some records I need to make sure are on your list. We’ve got some catching up to do over here. ![]()
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