As You Drown - Rat King - review
As You Drown - Rat King - review
Tracklist
01. Conqueror02. Slaves To The Kingdom Of Fear
03. You Should Be Paranoid
04. Rabid Wolves In Sheep's Clothing
05. Your Loyal Betrayer
06. The Coming
07. The Nothing
08. Bleeding Structure
09. Cleansing Hands
A review by
Doc G. October 25, 2011
It's a shame really, because that is some fine-ass artwork, and a pretty cool album title. Lucky us though, what we get is another group of excellent musicians writing more generic death metal. In fact, as long as everyone is just copying + pasting things, I figure I could probably just slip my review for Rose Funeral's Gates Of Punishment in here and not a soul would be the wiser. I mean, if the bands aren't going to put an ounce of creativity into their music, why should I put an ounce of creativity into my reviews? It's only fair, really. I'm curious as to why labels sign bands like these - not meant as an insult, merely a question of itching curiosity - who the hell looks at a band like this and sees something that stands apart from the mass?
Ironically, you need to be a great musician to make generic death metal it seems. As You Drown definitely have that on their side, despite using those talents rather tastelessly. There's a few nifty riffs & grooves that make a dash for it, before being swiftly caught by the prison guards which are the generic aspects of this album.
Honestly, As You Drown is another band that is capable of awesome things, but prefers to pander to the crowds who will worship any old crap with harsh vocals and click track.
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I don't listen to a lot of Death, so it's nice for the casual listener to have another generic Death release, or else I would just forget about this genre. Good background music, but nothing really stands out. I guess I'll forget about them until a new generic album comes along
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I assumed this was a deathcore album based on the cover. Probably won't bother with it immediately anyway, but might check it out just too see if I agree with the review.
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Posts: 6101 Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.10.2011 at 22:54 Written by [user id=4365] on 26.10.2011 at 00:04 Hahaha I thought the exact same thing and completely ignored it's existence. And just like Trory I may or may not check them out...
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Posts: 257 Written by [user id=4365] on 26.10.2011 at 00:04 +1
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Posts: 21306 Written by DNorbs on 04.11.2011 at 21:54 I think it's more like core-tinged death metal as opposed to deathcore directly if that makes sense, but the deathcore elements are definitely noticeable.
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