Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos review
| Band: | Corrupted |
| Album: | Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos |
| Style: | Doom metal, Sludge metal |
| Release date: | 2004 |
| A review by: | Lucas |
01. Gekkou No Daichi
02. Rato Triste
03. Sus Futuros
One of Japan's most interesting bands is the sickening Sludge/Doom ensemble Corrupted. Being completely averse to any form of promotion, they do not do interviews, but instead decided to let their music represent them. And with a stunning total of 13 splits, 7 ep's and four full-lengths (at the moment), they could not ask for a better spokesperson.
"Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos", their third full-length, was the first album that came across my path in physical shape. As I was familiar with the name, and acquaintances had made a lot of promises about the band, I had no choice but to pick it up. At that time, little did I know it would turn out to be one of the most bewildering and obsessing experiences in ages.
Opening up with a warm and comforting acoustic strumming, my expectations rose higher and higher. Sure, it is always a good idea to cheat the listener with a calm intro, to ensure maximum effect when hell finally breaks loose. When the first few minutes passed, my patience become more and more troubled to maintain itself. An appalling feeling stealthily took a hold of me. When the slideguitar kicked in after more than five minutes, I panicked. Was this a mistake? Some kind of sick joke? Finally, I had a chance to get Corrupted on some cd, and someone accidentily gave me the wrong disc. But hadn't the cd itself had "Corrupted" printed on it, bright and clear? I settled down again. Perhaps I had just picked their only acoustic cd. What also worked soothingly was the immense quality of the music, which I only noticed at that point.
The tender, gentle and warm guitars are an absolutely delight to the shattered, blood-stained eardrums of every seasoned metalhead out there. The powerful, sonorous bass of vocalist Hevi works better than the best herb out there to reach utter relaxation. His unintelligible lyrics allow the listener to release focus and slowly drone away. The full seventeen minutes that this song lasts, are an absolute oasis of peace.
But then. Of course, in the unholy land of Heavy Metal, such a comfortable state of mind can never sustain itself long. As soon as "Gekkou No Daichi" ends, the second song "Rato Triste" violently crushes every bit of peacefulnes around you. With its squeeling guitars, monstrous bass and hellish old school death growls it morphs every listener into a mindless zombie, with only one thought in mind: SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. In the third song, they pick up the pace a bit, resulting in a song with the rampaging force equal to a horde of wild bulls. Corrupted are out to destroy, with their unholy mix of old school Death, Doom, Sludge, Drone and a lot of feedback. Nasty shit.
The latter two songs add up to around seventeen minutes as well, so this album is nicely balanced. Tender subtly versus frantic force. A full-out war between heaven and hell, no compromises. Abandon all sanity and become C o r r u p t e d.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 10 |
| Production: | 8 |
 | Written on 12.05.2008 by If you're interested in extreme, often emotional and underground music, check out my reviews. I retired from reviewing, but I really used to be into that stuff. |
Comments
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| Marfere Posts: 65 |
This band uses the same textstyle in their bandname as the good old band Coroner (which starts with the 3 same letters). Just to make it clear 
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427  |
Written by Marfere on 12.05.2008 at 17:40 Yeah I believe it's a pretty common type of letters. Did you check the music out?
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what?  "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
Written by [user id=5080] on 12.05.2008 at 20:47 They are indeed too good to be missed out on, that's why I wrote the review. I will probably review the other two full-lengths I am soon getting too. By the way, those two EP's are only released on vinyl, right? Damn shame.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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| Marfere Posts: 65 |
Written by Lucas on 12.05.2008 at 17:43 Sry forgot to comment on your review  I liked what I read so I actually looked them up and they sound quite good!
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| Lucas Mr. Noise Elite Posts: 13427 |
No problem.  I'd rather have people check out what I recommend, then comment on my reviews, to be honest. That's what it's all about. 
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
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Account deleted Written by Marfere on 12.05.2008 at 17:40 On the other hand, it would be difficult for me to think if a band more different to Coroner than Corrupted... they represent paradigmatically the extreme technic and minimalism in metal respectively... both are among my favourite bands, btw
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| Marfere Posts: 65 |
Written by [user id=5080] on 15.05.2008 at 07:34 I'm glad it is that way though Because otherwise I wouldn't have found out about this band!
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| DreamWeaver Elite Posts: 2034  |
This people should learn some spanish. Anyway, this review has awaken my interest.
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| DreamWeaver Elite Posts: 2034 |
Written by [user id=5080] on 21.05.2008 at 06:35 Well, it's Sueños instead of Suenos. And checking other albums' lyrics like Paso Inferior you can see that their spanish is understandable, but not good at all.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by DreamWeaver on 21.05.2008 at 08:23 So? Many bands have lyrics which are written in terrible English (first one that springs to mind is Dimmu Borgir) are which are sung in horrendous English (Scorpions etc.) as long as it works it's fine by me.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| DreamWeaver Elite Posts: 2034 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.05.2008 at 11:14 My point is that if they insist in singing and writing in other language, the least they can do is learn the language correctly. Maybe some syntax mistakes can be overlooked. But grammar mistakes are just awful, I mean, you just need a dictionary to write a word correctly.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by DreamWeaver on 22.05.2008 at 02:38 Then your reasoning applies to about 90% of all metal bands around. Most horrible grammar around is still Dimmu Borgir IMO
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Dangerboner Lactation Cnslt Posts: 7262  |
Who cares. Lyrics don't matter much, especially if you can't even hear what the dude is saying. As for the album, I'll download it soon enough. I have one of their albums, which I don't care for at all, but I'll give this a try.
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