Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals - Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue
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Aside from everything else that can be said about Phil Anselmo, of which there is an unfortunately large amount, it is impressive that someone who has spent as long making music and had as much success as him can still summon up the Biblical levels of anger that he has displayed on recent musical records. However, Anselmo, arguably the face of chest-beating primal aggression in metal, had perhaps too much bile to unload on the debut record of his solo band, Walk Through Exits Only, to the extent that the songs (or at least the few I could bear to listen to) began to collapse in on themselves from all the untamed rage unleashed and turned into semi-incoherent messes. Now, with the release of their sophomore record, Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue, there is the hope that Phil Anselmo And The Illegals have learned to channel their raw emotion into a more refined output. Read more ›› |
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Hell-maddafakking-yeah.
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Album Release day (January 26, 2018)
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Album Release day (January 26, 2018)
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Fucking badass this one, here's the official full stream from Season of Mist.
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That rating is a travesty. This is a 2018 highlight so far: hyper aggressive, angry sludgy-grind (it's definitely more a grind album than a sludge one) that's also riffy and dynamic as hell.
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Yeah this is a huge improvement over the first album. Way more focused, yet still aggressive.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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Hehe I never expected to give a 9 to anything related to Phil Anselmo after Pantera, but here we are.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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Is the rating low just because it's Phil Anselmo involved in this? So people are like "ohhh it's Phil lol there's no way he could still be releasing good material these days" on assumption? I thought the same thing until I actually sat down and listened to it.
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Between a 7 and 8 for me. The biggest flaw on this album is the base drum sound imo. It's completely drowned out in the mix which is kind of unfortunate imo.
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I can justify a rating as this record came across nothing short of cacophonous layered in vomit-style vocals. It is screeching since the start and went all the way down to the point you are just absolutely vexatious.
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Posts: 9576 Written by tominator on 08.10.2018 at 02:35 Yeah the drum production is absolutely terrible.
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