01. The Blood-Dimmed Tide 02. Forging Towards The Sunset 03. To Spite The Face 04. Todos Somos Humanos 05. In Coelo Quies, Tout Finis Ici Bas [feat. Dave Nassie] 06. You Can't Save Me, So Stop Fucking Trying [feat. Elena Vladimirova] 07. Make Glorious The Embrace Of Saturn 08. Feeding The Beast [feat. Steeve Hurdle] 09. Of Fire, And Fucking Pigs 10. A Metaphor For The Dead
Death metal bands trying to play punk? The funny thing is that I listen close to no punk at all. Some bands I dig have punk elements but that's it. I never felt you had to like punk to like grindcore or that you can't like grindcore if you already don't like punk.
But yeah.... There is shittons of grind in Anaal Nathrakh. I honestly have no idea how to explain that to you since it me it's natural.
Well that's just what I hear in my own head. I'm not saying people who like grind will like punk or people who like punk will like grind. Just that in my head when I listen to a grind band (or what people tell me are a grind band) I hear what sounds like either a death metal band playing punk or punk band playing death metal (take your pick but basically it sounds to me like death/punk or deathened punk or punked death metal or whatever you wana call it but there sounds like a heavy punk element to me) and just me personally I don't care for punk so that connection in my head makes grind an unappealing genre for me. And when I listen to Anaal Nathrakh I don't hear what I perceive to be grind, I hear blackened death metal. Maybe you could recommend to me some grind bands that play grind like Anaal Nathrakh apparently play it?
I like to think of myself as a bit of a genre nerd when it comes to metal but grind is a genre that I have never cared for and I have tried to get into it several times over the years but never can so it is not something I have strong basis of knowledge about.
Surprisingly straightforward and accessible. I haven't listened to this band in years so I don't know the direction they've taken recently, but I remember them being a lot stranger. That may be in part because my ears have adapted to extreme music, though.
Enjoying the first few tracks so far, though. I love how Forging is both incredibly catchy and melodic, but also noisy and abrasive.
Really liking it. Given the trend of mediocrity in their recent albums, i'm saying this is their best since Eschaton, nice.
They'll probably never go back to the amazing, blackened grind of their debut. But I do really like the more melodic moments on this album, which would normally turn me off on a release like this.
Wow... I usually only give 10's to all time favorite albums, so this is only a 9. Easily the best release this year for me. This album is the definition of controlled chaos, just perfect.
Ahh, fuck it, i'll give it a 10 nontheless... after days of listening to nothing else, it just keeps getting better.
Blending the brutal aggression of death metal, the atmospheric melancholy of black metal and the sick craze of grind in such a mesmerizing way isn't an easy feat. I also enjoyed the industrial touches, and the clean vocal choruses are fantastic. As good as Passion IMO.
I would have said the same thing a few years ago. Then my taste in music got better.
I can't say that mine will not be, but i opened forging towards the sunset track, after one minute the vocalist started to shouting, seriosusly that didn't seem to me brutal, he was shouting
I wouldn't be too hard on him. Noise both a vague word in the English language and a specific genre of music. "That noise is giving me a headache" doesn't mean somebody's blasting a Merzbow record outside your window, any more than calling music heavy means you think it's traditional heavy metal.
But yeah, this is incredibly accessible, catchy and well-produced to anyone whose ear is a bit accustomed to extreme music. Didn't think I'd fall in love with it this much, might make it my top 10 metal albums of the year.
This site has a very skewed perspective on the last couple of albums. Passion was probably one of the most underwhelming albums of 'Rakh's career, and I felt that I shared that opinion with quite a few of their more hardcore fans. When this released, the first couple of listens were all I needed to make the decision that this was a ways better than that, and was on par with 'Constellations'.
But somehow 'Passion' has around the same rating as this, and has a better rating than 'Constellations'? I...don't understand that. At all.
Oh well, I'm probably taking the ratings here a bit too seriously. Album rules, \m/, etc.
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Learn to adapt to the change, or get washed away like tears in the rain.
Oh well, I'm probably taking the ratings here a bit too seriously. Album rules, \m/, etc.
Lol. Yea, you are. Aside from that it's just users opinions. AR are probably not a well known enough band to be subject to Ratings abuse but ya never know so that could be part of it too.
I only recently finally started loving this band with this release, in prior years I have just never gotten into them and I have been playing catch up so I can't really form an opinion of Passion over Constellations or Vanitas yet other than to say that Vanitas and Constellations are defintitely amazing albums.
I wouldn't be too hard on him. Noise both a vague word in the English language and a specific genre of music. "That noise is giving me a headache" doesn't mean somebody's blasting a Merzbow record outside your window, any more than calling music heavy means you think it's traditional heavy metal.
Either rating abuse is getting worse, or music in general is getting worse. I think I know which it is haha.
If this album was released a few years back, it would probably be rated 8.4-8.5.
Either rating abuse is getting worse, or music in general is getting worse. I think I know which it is haha.
If this album was released a few years back, it would probably be rated 8.4-8.5.
I think that the fact that more and more users register to the site each year has something to do, since the top albums receive bigger amounts of votes each year and more opinions clash.
It's just a theory, but one would have to compare the amount of votes for each no.1 album as well.
I'm not a big fan of this kind of metal... in overall it's too hardcore, too loud, noisy and chaotic for me. So after first listening I said "that's enough". But there is something in that album what have left in my mind and forced me to listen to it again... and again... and again. Now I can't stop listen to it and every time I discover new amazing parts. There are some parts of vocals making me screaming with Anaal, there are amazing rhythmic parts with powerful guitars, sometimes bass plays something amazing for 2-3 seconds... I'm totally crashed and by Vanitas Perfect album.
This is what extreme metal should sound like in my opinion - brutal, chaotic but at times epic and melodic. I really liked they previous couple of albums but "Vanitas" just turned me inside out.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
One of the best extreme metal releases of 2012, and consequently one of the best albums by Anaal Nathrakh. 'Todos somos Humanos' and epic closer 'A metaphor for the dead' in particular amaze me with their songwriting.