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2008-04-15 13:48:00 For easy reference, here is the full best of 2007 list, with links for each album's review.It's been some work, but great fun to do. From now on, the blog will resume its regular activity, with posting still frequent. Hopefully.What did you think of it? What would you change for your own lists? Did you discover anything with my list? Let me know!too.many.records. - best albums of 2007Album Of The Year. Neurosis - 'Given To The Rising'2. Black Sun - 'Hour Of The Wolf'3. Ulver - 'Shadows Of The Sun'4. Rotting Christ - 'Theogonia'5. Primordial - 'To The Nameless Dead'6. The Angels Of Light - 'We Are Him'7. Cobalt - 'Eater Of Birds'8. Deathspell Omega - 'Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum'9. Pig Destroyer - 'Phantom Limb'10. High On Fire - 'Death Is This Communion'11. Orthodox - 'Amanecer En Puerta Oscura'12. Cephalic Carnage - 'Xenosapien'13. Lake Of Tears - 'Moons And Mushrooms'14. Mayhem - 'Ordo Ad Chao'15. Caïna - 'Mourner'16. Stinking Lizaveta -... More About: List , Full , The List
2007 album of the year
2008-04-15 12:06:00 neurosis - 'given to the rising' It was obvious, wasn't it? It's funny that you see Neurosis' name thrown around a lot these days (hell, I'm guilty of that in spades, I can find a Neurosis reference point in just about any album you can throw at me, it's like a superpower or something), but especially by people who can't find anything else to say about an ambient/drone/monolithic riffing/rather unclassifiable record and just lump everything together in the one-size-fits-all "oh, they sound like Neurosis and Isis and Cult Of Luna" dropword. Well, fuck that. Neurosis aren't a band to be lumped in with any other bands, good as they might be, or with any movements, or trends, or anything. As the most essential and primordially true musical entity of the post-Swans era, Neurosis are their own movement. They have followed their own individual way on every single thing they've done and that is why they are so revered, considered so influential and also so misunderstood. As with a... More About: Album , Year
Best of 2007 - #2
2008-04-14 13:19:00 2. black sun - 'hour of the wolf' Here's the reason why some people call me a schizo. On the very podium of my favourite albums of last year, there's the direct leap from Ulver's album, the most quietly beautiful release of the year, to this - the most abrasively noisy piece of ugly dirtiness of the year. No subtlety, pleasantries or any kind of remorse in sight, Black Sun just beat you into a fucking pulp until you stop moving and then they keep doing it and doing it and doing it until they're satisfied with the mess you're in. And then they do it for a long while more. Many parts of songs consist of ripping the same THUD! chord out of their instruments for several minutes while spewing forth some words of hatred, while others ooze the sludgiest, grittiest riffs this side of fuck knows what. I had this to say when I reviewed the wretched thing for issue #154 of Terrorizer magazine, and it's pretty accurate still:With James Plotkin doing the mixing and mastering of the album...
Best of 2007 - #3
2008-04-14 12:56:00 3. ulver - 'shadows of the sun' When I first conceived this list, 'Shadows Of The Sun' was well positioned, a top ten record, yes, but not this well positioned. However, in the few months since the first version of the list was dreamt up (and that's the coolest thing about lists that people who argue bitterly about them never seem to get - they're not set in stone, they evolve just like we do and any list is just a picture of a moment), this album has been steadily, quietly and very enjoyably listened to on an almost daily basis, and it seems set to stay that way. It's a perfect situation-album if there ever was one - it's the perfect album to put on when you're going to sleep, when you're on a long journey, when you want to make a certain kind of love to your partner, in the early morning when you feel like being quiet, you name it. As a mood-setting album, there are precious few, ever, that can match it. In yet another one in the long list of Ulver style-jumps (we're ta...
Best of 2007 - #4
2008-04-13 00:46:00 4. rotting christ - 'theogonia' This is it - this is the album that Rotting Christ have been hinting at for over a decade and a half. Although they are already part of extreme metal's history, with their historial (and very important for their time) first albums, most notably 'Non Serviam', way back from 1994 (this is how we music geeks notice that we're getting old!). However, the development of their career has seen them waver unstably between their mediterranean metal style (an expression which I don't really like, but it fits as a description somehow) and a mid-90s Century Media-style dark metal, with some good and some less good results. Even in the less inspired albums, though, there has always been something noteworthy, a couple of songs that have made us all wish that they would always be like that. 'Theogonia' marks Rotting Christ's 20th anniversary, and as a celebration, no fan could have wished for more. Sakis has revealed how grueling the preparation for this a...
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2008-04-11 17:23:00 Quick break to tell you that most of the .mp3 from the entries previous to the last one (Primordial) aren't working due to a bandwidth issue, I'm in the process of migrating the files and I expect everything to be done in a few days. Apologies for that. In the meanwhile, entertain yourself with the teaser for the forthcoming SWR festival in Barroselas, in the north of Portugal. Don't miss it!
Best of 2007 - #5
2008-04-11 17:17:00 5. primordial - 'to the nameless dead' The growth of Primordial has been staggering. These Irish warriors are one of those bands that make you wonder how on earth they're going to make another album at each of their releases, such is the monumental scope of their music, and then a couple of years later they do and it all seems perfectly natural evolutionary step. Albums like 'Journey's End' or 'Spirit The Earth Aflame' were tremendous, and some of the few in metal history to actually merit the word 'epic' which is so casually thrown around these days. However, the one big leap in Primordial's career has been 'The Gathering Wilderness'. Their 2005 album is one of the finest musical creations of the 00s, a rousing and moving glorious lament that is equal parts standing-on-a-windswept-moor chest-beating inspiring as it is infinity-gazing Neurosis-like everything-metal. It collected album of the year accolades just about everywhere and it's a career-defining moment that is...
Best of 2007 - #6
2008-04-10 13:43:00 6. the angels of light - 'we are him' Michael Gira and Jarboe have taken very different paths ever since the dissolution of the Swans, who are, along with Neurosis, the most seminal, important and underlyingly influential band of the last 20 years. Of course, being part of something so essential is both a blessing and a burden, as none of them will ever be seen outside the Swans context for the rest of their careers, especially by Swans loony-fanatics like yours truly. However, both are talented enough to not let that lingering shadow cloud their subsequent projects in a negative way. Jarboe has proceeded with her harrowing solo work, as well as collaborating with some of (alt-)metal's most gifted visionaries of today, like Neurosis themselves, Justin K. Broadrick (of Godflesh and Jesu fame), Cobalt and even Attila Csihar (Mayhem) and Phil Anselmo, who will guest on her next record. Gira, for his part, has wandered further into the left-field, both on the artists he signs on his ...
Best of 2007 - #7
2008-04-02 12:44:00 7. cobalt - 'eater of birds' [review published on issue #161 of Terrorizer magazine]This album will surely get a lot of attention of some circles from which it probably wouldn?t otherwise, because of the presence of Jarboe?s unrivalled, haunting vocals on two of the songs. While this seems a bit unfair, because her contribution, while excellent in creating some chilly moods in those songs, really isn?t all that meaningful to the outcome of the album, it?s actually a good thing. Because most of those people will really want to hang out a while with ?Eater Of Birds? once they taste their initial morsel of it. The straightforward violence of their debut ?War Metal? has been considerably twisted into something much darker in the two years that have passed since its release. Not that it?s any less violent, on the contrary ? the songs on ?Eater Of Birds? positively drip with black bile, a thick miasma surrounding them in a way akin to early Anaal Nathrakh. Nevertheless, the Colorado duo...
Best of 2007 - #8
2008-04-02 12:43:00 8. deathspell omega - 'fas - ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum' Wanna know what this sounds like? The title of the album means, in Latin, 'By divine law, go, you cursed, into the eternal fire!'. That's more or less it. Okay, I'll try to resist the temptation of ending this analysis right here with a loud 'GO GET IT!'. This tempation is strong, because 'Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum' is daunting. In every way. Thematically, it's already the second chapter on a complex trilogy that goes so further into the probing of mankind's relationship with faith and its rejection that this would turn into a mini-course in theology if we'd get into it properly. So, erm, let's not, but you'd be well advised to read, search and investigate about it if you really want to enjoy this record properly. The initially aparent randomness of the album is disconcerting and you need any foothold you can get to get to grips with it, and after a while (a long while, probably) it will daw...
Best of 2007 - #9
2008-04-02 12:07:00 9. pig destroyer - 'phantom limb' [review published on issue #78 of LOUD! magazine, translated and slightly adapted for too.many.records.]The incessant racket that was Pig Destroyer's previous album 'Terrifyer', had a accompanying counterpoint to it, the mysterious DVD-audio that contained one single sinister, slow and oppressive 37-minute song called 'Natasha', for which you needed even more stomach to listen to in its entirety than for the album itself. Aware of the effect that these contrasts provoked in their listeners (or victims?), Pig Destroyer have on 'Phantom Limb' a sort of mix of both. Of course, the minute-and-a-half insane discharges are present and accounted for, but roughly half the songs here are over three minutes long, showing a complexity and different arrangements that make the record a much more intimidating whole than the constant grind of yore. Expect no mercy, however. Everything hits you, and it hits you hard. Harder than before, even - as the dynam...
Best of 2007 - #10
2008-04-02 11:53:00 10. high on fire - 'death is this communion' Matt Pike, High On Fire's legendary frontman (he was in Sleep with Al Cisneros) said in an interview shortly after the release of 'Death Is This Communion' that he doesn't need to dress up in a warrior's costume covered with blood and guts to prove that this band is for real, and that is the perfect way to start to understand High On Fire. Crystallizing like few others the true spirit of what rock and metal really are, High On Fire are just a kickass power trio like they used to make 'em, belting out fist-to-the-face tune after fist-to-the-face tune, grooving wildly as if the devil himself was whistling a tune. It all sounds loose and devil-may-care, but underneath it all there is a rock-solid structure that makes this album one of the strongest of the year on a musical level as well, besides the unbeatable feeling. The balance of songs is spot-on, and you'll be sorely missing out if you just hear an isolated song from this. It'...
Best of 2007 - #11
2008-03-27 17:02:00 11. orthodox - 'amanecer en puerta oscura' [review published on issue #8 of Rock-A-Rolla magazine]Sevilla?s Orthodox are everything but ? already on their first album, ?Gran Poder?, a relatively hidden gem, it could be perceived that these Spaniards were on to something special. Although the album got lost in its own meanderings a bit too often for its own good, that unmistakable feeling of a band on to something unusual was there. ?Amanecer En Puerta Oscura? confirms that, and a lot more besides. Still a remarkably difficult album, even more so than its predecessor, as sombre, unsettling passages alternate with urgent jazzy labyrinths to create an unpredictable tapestry that will require a lot of dedication for it to make any sense. Structures seem loose and vague, which helps the eerie, trance-like quality of most of the music, but once you get used to it the underlying thread becomes apparent, a moving force similar to later Neurosis. Most of the record is instrumental, and wh...
Best of 2007 - #12
2008-03-27 16:57:00 12. cephalic carnage - 'xenosapien' [review published on issue #9 of Rock-A-Rolla magazine]?Xenosapien? is a rare beast ? a bomb of a record that manages to grab you by the neck instantly, such is its catchiness and extra sense of groove (in comparison with their previous albums, which weren?t exactly groove-less monoliths), but which is not an immediate record at all, as it also keeps revealing itself in hundreds of brilliant little details as you listen to it more and more. And listen to it you will. Previous Cephalic Carnage albums, ?Lucid Interval? especially, but also 2005?s ?Anomalies?, have been extremely impressive but have also left the impression that they were trying to do too much. Not that they?re not capable of it, given the stratospheric technical level of these musicians, but as bassist Nick Schendzielos proclaims in this issue?s feature, sometimes less is more. ?Xenosapien? is a perfect example. Encapsulating all the moods found in CC?s music before, be it the gri...
Best of 2007 - #13
2008-03-27 15:15:00 13. lake of tears - 'moons & mushrooms' One of the most unfairly underrated bands of the last decade, Lake Of Tears nevertheless soldier on, with each album always a surprise in terms of musical direction taken. ?Moons And Mushrooms? is a sort of combination of all that was good about the past six records but much more guitar-focused, with melancholy, catchy choruses and their indefinable fantasy quirkiness greatly enriched by the wonderfully strong guitar sound. Much darker and heavier than before, it?ll appeal to anyone into any kind of melodic metal., read my review on issue #159 of Terrorizer magazine. Unfortunately, that was all the space I got to write about 'Moons And Mushrooms', but there would be much more to say, as there would about most Lake Of Tears albums, a band that has been consistently underrated throughout their career. On 'Moons And Mushrooms', if you still don't know Lake Of Tears, you have the perfect entry point, because the album is a sort of summi...
Best of 2007 - #14
2008-03-11 12:45:00 14. mayhem - 'ordo ad chao' Actually, if you don't mind me lapsing out of my Mr. Reviewer tone for a while, I've got the perfect real life episode to explain exactly what it feels like to listen to 'Ordo Ad Chao'. It was a night of intense, erm, alcohol sampling, and my friends who participated in the event stayed at my place, after locomotion slowly stopped being an option. One of them stayed on the sofa on the living room, where we had been listening to some music on an mp3 player, which was left on by forgetfulness. After a while, and we are talking about someone who's into the most fucked-up music you can think of, he woke up, uncomfortable and confused, from an unpleasant sleep, wondering what it was that was giving him such a nasty feeling. It turned out that the mp3 player that had been left on had reached 'Ordo Ad Chao'. Asleep or awake, this is exactly what this album will do to you. The way I see it, Mayhem have been searching for their direction ever since the bl...
Best of 2007 - #15
2008-03-07 12:28:00 15. caïna - 'mourner' [review published on issue #80 of LOUD! magazine, translated and slightly adapted for too.many.records.]Shortly after Alcest blew me away, the perfect companion for 'Souvenirs D?un Autre Monde' came out, and companion can even be interpreted in several ways. Alcest's album is a soft, pastoral affair, essentially feminine in its aesthetics and sensitivity, while 'Mourner' is a sort of masculine counterweight to the environments lived in Neige's work. Equally born from a solitary musician's work, young Andrew Curtis-Brignell, who doesn't feel at all the need to hide behind a demoniac alter-name (despite being a LaVey follower), 'Mourner' is the dark and disturbed face of the ambient genre. Something so scarily enveloping as 'Hideous Gnosis' is an eloquent demonstration of what you can expect of a record of this magnitude - a spartan beginning, threateningly minimalist, in which Curtis-Brignell softly sings Who?s on the side of the angels and who?s o...
Best of 2007 - #16
2008-03-07 01:08:00 16. stinking lizaveta - 'scream of the iron iconoclast' [review published on issue #9 of Rock-A-Rolla magazine]With instrumental rock and metal on the rise like it would have been crazy to think about a decade or so ago, and bands popping out everywhere, each of them trying to out-warp the previous one, it?s very refreshing that there are three guys from Philadelphia keeping it pretty simple, with mammoth riffs shot out one after another, super tight, pounding rhythm section and squealing fuzzy solos are the norm here. Within this apparently limited framework, Stinking Lizaveta carve out sixteen dirty, rocking hymns. With lots of variety ? take for example the opposition between the charging 2-minute ?Gravitas? and the slower, sunnier 6-minute ?Unreal? - throughout which your interest won?t dwindle one iota. On the contrary. Risking a big claim here, this is the most addictive and replayable instrumental rock album of the past few years. Fortunately for the band, everything seems ...
Best of 2007 - #17
2008-03-07 01:06:00 17. minotauri - 'ii' At some point, you just want to rock. For all the wonderful creativity, emotion, brutality, innovation or just plain weirdness that we music geeks like to look for endlessly in our piles and piles of precious records, sometimes we all just feel like putting something on that will rock. No frills, no complicated atmosphers, no heavily layered vocals, no journeys into an inner world of splendid depth - just the comfort that there are still people who can call a song 'Doom On Ice' and get away with it, tongue-in-cheek, just because they can. That's when we put on Minotauri. A cool way to look at this Finnish band is to imagine they're a sort of even more stripped down version of fellow Finns Reverend Bizarre. There's the same sort of back to the basics, old heavy stuff worship approach, but without the mysticism and cult leanings of the Reverend. 'II', tragically Minotauri's final album (even on that announcement they're simple - 'now we're dead! fuck ...
Best of 2007 - #18
2008-03-05 15:56:00 18. portal - 'outre'' [review published on issue #82 of LOUD! magazine, translated and slightly adapted for too.many.records.]Profound Lore's releases have been consistently brilliant so far, especially in 2007, and Portal is no exception. These mysterious, hooded Aussies, with their second album, take the rotten carcass of death metal, decomposed and eaten by whatever creatures that come out of this portal, to levels of unimaginable degradation. At the core of their line-up, a couple of members from Star Gazer (if you don't know them, go get 'The Scream That Tore The Sky'. Like, now.), a band that does their own sort of sinister, cosmic death metal - Portal is just the opposite. Organic, mouldy, subterraneously monstrous. This music is abject, ugly and at first glance not subtle at all, but at the same time it exhales a ritualistic feeling that provides some haunting to the cavern where it takes place. Gone are the days when extreme music used to really scare us, but hideous...
Best of 2007 - #19
2008-02-29 12:29:00 19. evoken - 'a caress of the void' As the more extreme forms of doom, and funeral doom in particular, become a more broadly accepted proposition, more and more bands of the sort begin to show up, either newly formed, or being picked up more easily by record labels. It's also a time, however, to remember the ones who have been here before, and who still are the natural leaders of the genre. Direct spiritual descendents of the two entities that basically formed the entire blueprint for the genre, Disembowelment and Thergothon, they have been spreading their miserable, crawl-paced terror since the frightening 1996 EP 'Shades Of Night Descending'. Always at the forefront with such monuments of heavy slow doom such as 1998's 'Embrace The Emptiness' or the recent 2005's 'Antithesis Of Light', Evoken have now delivered an album of a magnitude that can rival with anything they've done before. 'A Caress Of The Void' is a bottomless pit of despair, and a much more dangerous one...
Best of 2007 - #20
2008-02-25 11:37:00 20. whiskey priest - 'hungry' And then, sometimes, you need to rest. You need to sit down, dim the lights and be quiet, let your troubles and your tiredness sink in. That's when you put 'Hungry' on. Whiskey Priest is Noah Hall and his guitar, together with a few friends, and it's the acoustic album of the year. The first line of the band's description on their MySpace reads I like quiet songs. I like honest songs., and that's precisely what 'Hungry' delivers. Songs that whisper and gently strum their words and chords to you, but also songs that resonate deeply very long after you've heard them because of the brutal honesty with which they are delivered. Noah also says love makes me want to sing songs about love, but don't think by that quote that you're getting into some sappy pink album. At its core, 'Hungry' is wounded and heartbroken. It's not completely hopeless and bleak, but hope is a distant concept, one that is there merely as a little beacon of light (should...
Best of 2007 - from #25 to #21
2008-02-21 23:38:00 25. watain - 'sworn to the dark' / ixxi - 'assorted armament' (watain) (ixxi)A double-header! I could go into all kinds of wonderful justifications to have two records sharing one spot, and they'd actually be valid, like both Watain and IXXI embodying what's still relevant about black metal these days, kind of torchbearers for the genuine core of a genre, how both albums are similar beasts of misanthropic aggression, all that. All true, but this is actually a bit of a cop-out to hide the fact that I discovered IXXI, shamefully, when this list was already well underway, and 'Assorted Armament' is way too good to leave out. While we were furiously headbanging in the car to it, noticing that it wasn't a million miles away from 'Sworn To The Dark', my bestest friend JMR suggested that I slip them both in the list side by side, so here it is. Watain is Watain, if you're not into them, you're not into black metal, period. 'Sworn To The Dark' might not be as essential as ...
Best of 2007 - from #30 to #26
2008-02-20 13:59:00 30. the great deceiver - 'life is wasted on the living' [review published on issue #163 of Terrorizer magazine]Shame that metalcore has become such a dirty word, otherwise it would be a perfect term to describe bands that actually can appeal to the sensitivities of both hardcore and metal audiences by doing a bit more than just mixing clean and rough vocals and doing a lot of breakdowns. As it is, it?s hard to describe The Great Deceiver?s new album without alienating the genre purists by the end of the first sentence. It?s their loss anyway. Tomas Lindberg (ironically enough, as At The Gates are often cited as an influence on the current ?metalcore? bands) and Kristian Wahlin?s band has defied easy categorization ever since 1999?s ?Cave In?, with each album a potent cocktail featuring a different balance of genres, and here that balance has clearly gone the way of the hardcore punk. The intensity is enough to bring Converge to mind often, while the creativity and agility of the g...
Best of 2007 - from #35 to #31
2008-02-19 19:24:00 35. iron and wine - 'the shepherd's dog' It's been rather hard for those of us who fell in love with Sam Beam's first couple of softly hushed, minimalist guitar-picking albums, the unforgettable 'The Creek Drank The Cradle' and 'Our Endless Numbered Days', to follow his inevitable evolution into a more arranged, structured kind of composition, with more instruments and a few people around him colouring the songs. The 'Woman King' EP was okay, but it sort of passed you by, which raised my fears a bit for this album, but in the end Sam has been able to prove that no matter what the form is, the essence of his music can and will touch hearts regardless. Truth be told, there was little else to do with his old style anyway, and in this album he has thrown the doors of experimentation wide open. It's not wild "avantgarde" experimentation, but it's stuff like the fabulous dimension of 'Boy With A Coin', a song that is at the same time creepy and jolly, the little beat of 'H...
Best of 2007 - from #40 to #36
2008-02-19 00:28:00 40. vital remains - 'icons of evil' I was utterly exhausted, devastated by three whole days of Wacken and a couple of hours away from a whole-day bus+train+plane ride without sleeping, but was still quite pissed off when Vital Remains didn't show up for their gig at the big German festival. And there's a reason - after 1349 played, I couldn't have imagined a better way to finish the whole thing off than a show heavily based on this ugly motherfucker of a record. 'Icons Of Evil' is the perfect companion piece to Deicide's trailblazing 'The Stench Of Redemption' (and Benton fronts the band here too). Everything that makes a good death metal album is here, as 'Icons Of Evil' is simultaneously vast and claustrophobic, sweeping and crushingly to-the-point. The tempo doesn't vary much from halfway through mid-pace and speedy, but this helps the stomping feel, as if each riff and each blastbeat is yet another nail hammered into the body of that christ dude. Perfect Erik Rutan ...
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2008-02-14 17:01:00 If you would allow the shameless plug, I would like to inform you that a new companion blog for our beloved (well, mine anyway) too.many.records. has been created. It's called too.many.photos. and its name is self-explanatory, I would think.I will try to keep it as straight to the point as this one. If all that matters here is records, then all that matters there is photos. It is not supposed to be a photographer's blog, as I don't think knowing which lens or shutter speed I used would significantly improve your experience of looking at it. It's time to let the images of our favourite musicians do all the talking.I hope you will enjoy it.Now, enough non-recordspeak. Onward! More About: Short , Graphical , Pause
Best of 2007 - from #45 to #41
2008-02-12 00:51:00 45. red harvest - 'a greater darkness' [review published on issue #34 of Unrestrained! magazine, slightly adapted for too.many.records.]Always a left-field band, Red Harvest have gone one step further into the unusual with this. These Norwegians have been refining their innovative industrialized thrash for well over a decade now, with Cold Dark Matter their most accomplished work to date, but A Greater Darkness is one mean motherload of an album that eclipses everything they?ve done so far in terms of sheer quality. The most phenomenal difference towards the other albums is the threatening, poisonous atmosphere of terror that stains the whole thing. The darkness on this album is indeed much greater than before ? check out the coiled, about-to-explode venom of 'Hole In Me' or the dissonant creepiness of 'Dead Cities' for textbooks examples of sonic evil. This unique ambiance is achieved through a slightly different approach to songwriting, as the sound feels much less mechanica...
Best of 2007 - reaching halfway! From #50 to #46
2008-02-08 12:59:00 50. behemoth - 'the apostasy' [review published on issue #162 of Terrorizer magazine]Behemoth have been worryingly average for a while now, and the fact that this less inspired (by their standards) period has coincided with a rise in their commercial status, especially in the United States, is a very valid cause of concern for fans of these Polish giants. ‘Demigod’ was a step further into their definitive affirmation as a death metal band, as opposed to their blackened earlier output, but it was a bland, uninspired step which left several question marks on what would be the ideal direction to follow on the next release. Their commercial future might be relatively secure, with the kind of popularity they seem to hold now, but purely musically speaking, a lot hangs on ‘The Apostasy’. So it’s good that ‘Slaying The Prophets Ov Isa’, the first track proper after the moody intro, will kick any lingering doubts and anxieties from your mind with all the violence you could w...
Best of 2007 - from #55 to #51
More articles from this author:2008-02-08 00:01:00 55. entombed - 'serpent saints' Seventeen years, nine full length albums. Time flies, doesn't it? I'm not aware of the demographics of my readership, but I assume that some of you guys were toddlers when 'Left Hand Path' came out. Man, do I feel old. Entombed, however, don't - 'Serpent Saints' is yet another slab of dirty, heavy Entombed-metal that fits perfectly alongside their past discography. Entombed's career, like almost every band that has had a massive influence towards a genre, has always been marked by those first albums, up until 'Wolverine Blues' more or less. Unlike many of those bands, though, and even if every fan seems to have a different album to pick on, the fact is that Entombed have never released a bad album, not even an average one, if you look at it unbiased by your own expectations. 'Serpent Saints' even sidesteps the more-of-the-same issue (although it's a very wonderful same!) that might have been valid on some other albums, because they're ... 1, 2, 3 |
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