Crushing Axes - Black Book - review
Crushing Axes - Black Book - review
Tracklist
01. Skull Crusher02. Barbaric Ways
03. Castle Of Bones
04. Burning Land
05. Last Man Standing
06. Farewell
07. A Good Day For Killing
08. Nights Of Sorrow
09. Scream
10. Evil Out Of The Cage
11. Holyground
12. Finale
A review by
wormdrink414 April 22, 2012
Sometimes.
Thing is, the fact that this is the product of one guy is a bit too evident throughout. I mean, the dude is talented; he can write a mean riff and growl a mean growl and all, but this whole thing lacks the dynamism that's so important for angry, aggressive shit to be really engaging. It's lacking pretty sorely in the magic of a band working together department?magic that some people have captured on their own in the past.
That, and the growling is... iffy. It's got a clarity, an almost spoken quality to it that's unique enough, but "unique" is probably where the positive-ish adjectives have to end. It's not terrible, but it's not really, you know, "good" either.
Some of the solos are shit, too--like "whoa, there's another E-string?" shitty (see "Farewell")--as are some of the riffs.
But it's all balanced out by moments that work well. Overall, this still sometimes sounds really good. And that's worth something. This is stripped down, amateurish death metal. You know what to expect. It could have been a whole lot better, no doubt about that, but it's not terrible to begin with. It'd probably be best to approach with caution, but do take the time to approach if you enjoy simplified death.
Written on 22.04.2012 by
Written on 22.04.2012 by
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Nice to have you back wormy. Judging by your and Doc's reviews, this is not exactly the best year for death metal...
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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Listening to Farewell on YT right now. The vocals are... Okay... But are indeedspoken word growls. But you stated it perfectly, stripped down death metal.
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Posts: 2589 Written by Milena on 22.04.2012 at 21:40 Second that, man can review proper. Doesn't sound even like a remotely interesting album though lol.
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Posts: 1322 Written by Milena on 22.04.2012 at 21:40 But we've had good Asphyx, Spawn Of Possession, Gorod and Aborted albums.  I think that this is not exactly the best year for black metal (at least compared to the devastating 2011, which was an awesome year for black metal records), but were still in April, so who knows what might happen?
---- In that case, man is only air as well.
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Posts: 4603 Written by Oaken on 23.04.2012 at 19:42 I didn't mean you don't have a lot of good things so far, I meant that they get a lot of bad/average stuff to review
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Posts: 1322 Written by Milena on 23.04.2012 at 20:07 Yeah, I noticed a lot of 6.0-6.5 given by Doc to death metal records. I understand what you meant. 
---- In that case, man is only air as well.
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Listen to a few tracks on YT, and frm what I've ehard, I'd rate this a full 2 points lower. The spoken word growls are extremely annoying.
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Posts: 9726 Written by Oaken on 23.04.2012 at 21:57 I'm always afraid it would make me look like I hate death metal...Quite the opposite. Death has taken up the majority of my listening time lately. Made myself a 4 hour death metal playlist and enjoy every minute of it. Sadly, only a select few death metal albums I've reviewed this year are worth making it onto that list, it looks like Wormy might be in the same boat.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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Posts: 1322 Written by Doc G. on 12.05.2012 at 10:42 Point taken. The reviews are quite good BTW. Especially your latest one with the G.I.Joe intro. That was cool 
---- In that case, man is only air as well.
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