Dumper - Rise Of The Mammoth - review
Dumper - Rise Of The Mammoth - review
Tracklist
01. Dumper02. Volts
03. Black Eyes
04. Drag Me To Hell
05. The Melting Eye
06. Rise Of The Mammoth
07. On And On
08. Lamb To The Slaughter
09. Ticket To Ride [The Beatles cover]
10. The Revenge Of Scylla
A review by
Darkside Momo June 13, 2011
There's quite a small problem, however: the vocals manage to be both great and catastrophic. Eddie Cantoni's voice has the hard-rock vibe for sure, this raw, whisky-abused tone that's just classical. But his singing drag everything down as soon as it gets slower... There's no energy, not unlike a 60 years old guy who's totally burned out. OK, OK, I exaggerate a bit, but not as much as I'd like to. Check the title track and its "It's the rise... of the mammoth... Yeaaah!" Then tell me it's not pathetic. On the other hand, the rare high-pitched parts fit nicely (like in "Volts"). Instruments-wise, the drumming's nice, the bass is catchy and powerful, the riffing is cool, the solos are hard-rocking great, no critics to be made, really... But they all manage to be lame on the aforementioned "Rise Of The Mammoth". The song is indeed really cohesive, the guitars lack energy because they follow the tired and pitiful vocals.
And this leads me to what bugged me the most with this album. It starts with energy (the first two tracks), but then the songs then drag themselves with a drowsy mid-tempo. And from "Black Eyes" to "Rise Of The Mammoth", time moves sooooooo slowly. You're like the mammoth on the cover, slowly sinking in a tar pit, and certainly not rising at all! It's a shame for sure, as there are pretty good songs in there, like "Volts" or the excellent closer "The Revenge Of Scylla". This last song is pretty great, could even make me say that this band's got talent, but kinda wastes it.
So well, nothing groundbreaking here (granted, that's pretty hard in this field), but this is a nice groovy hard-rock EP. Yes, EP: be sure to skip those sleep-inducing tracks!
Written on 13.06.2011 by
Written on 13.06.2011 by
Once your regular Hellfest reporter, now retired. I (strangely enough) listen to a lot of metal. And enjoy good beers, comics, novels and role-playing games. Comments
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Dumper? What a horrid name for a band.
---- Learn to adapt to the change, or get washed away like tears in the rain.
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Posts: 647 Written by The Benighted on 14.06.2011 at 20:10 Haha that's what I thought, I was expecting a band based on bowel movements...
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Posts: 268 Written by The Benighted on 14.06.2011 at 20:10 Beat me to it.
---- The word gen means "illusion" or "apparition." In India, a man who uses conjury is called a genjutsushi ["a master of illusion technique"]. Everything in this world is but a marionette show. Thus we use the word gen.
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Posts: 9126 Written by Fat & Sassy! on 14.06.2011 at 21:59 The logo is better than the cover: 
---- My Author's Blog (in French)  "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" "I've lost too many years now I'm stealing back my soul I am awake"
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Awesome. I dunno... I think the band name is kinda... cute?  Terrible, but cute.
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