Advent Of Bedlam - Flesh Over God - review
Advent Of Bedlam - Flesh Over God - review
Tracklist
01. Nimrod's Rebellion02. Time For Vengeance
03. Tyrannicide
04. Purification Through Pain
05. Indoctrinated Wrath [feat. Tim Aymar]
06. Creed Of The Void
07. The Swinish Moguls
08. Echoes Of The Unhinged
A review by
Windrider March 01, 2012
Imagine Behemoth with the brutal parts of Dimmu Borgir's In Sorte Diaboli, Slayer riffs waving from every second corner and Ronnie James Dio as guest vocalist, then you have pretty much the idea of how Flesh Over God sounds like. To complete your fantasy, look at this awesome album cover. I really gazed like hours at it and as one can guess from it, the album is based around the story of the tower of Babel. For example, the guy which appears in the first song title "Nimrod's Rebellion" plays his part in this story. But I am not here to preach and give a sermon.
Talking about the music, I already said it's complex death metal. Indeed it is quite the opposite of generic, rather raw and edged and most importantly, brutal. If someone asked me how to describe it by a single term I'd say something like "authentic fury," because this is the atmosphere that is carried within Advent Of Bedlam's music. Positive aspects of the record include this overall true death metal feeling, harsh riffs that one couldn't think of easily, and a fantastic performance by all the band mates: I especially want to praise the drummer. Vocals are either deep and dark in Nergal style or high pitched like on the border to black metal. Solos are rare (I think I've counted two) but enjoyable and they show something of the band's past when they played their music the melodic way. Nevertheless after listening to some of their older stuff I was glad they got rid of the keyboard because the new style fits them much better.
Finally, I want to share my highlight with you which is the song "Tyrannicide," because its chorus was (and is) the first and only melody stuck in my head from this album. A nice example of a great but uneasy-listening riff is the intro riff to "The Swinish Moguls." Overall Flesh Over God is a very good album, if only I could remember it...
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Windrider | March 01, 2012
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Costa Rica? Wow, never heard any metal band from that country. Sounds interesting, writing it on my to-check list.
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Posts: 603 Written by Unhealer on 01.03.2012 at 19:32 if you liked Advent Of Bedlam, you should listen Sight Of Emptiness... Greetings from Costa Rica
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Posts: 153 Written by ChapuLviz on 02.03.2012 at 03:47 and you must be last.fm.. nice to meet you buddy 
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Posts: 16 Written by DahliaRock on 02.03.2012 at 16:15 I´m from costa rica, we have a lot nice metal bands, my band is Aceldama, but you can find bands like Sight of emptiness,Pneuma, Mantra, Rotten Souls, Corpse Garden, The Last Void, Eternia, Dominage, Acero, necrolisis, time forgotten, or you can find in metal archives in Costa Rica, we a very little country but we have great bands
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Posts: 153 Written by MarioVillalobos on 03.03.2012 at 00:42 thanks bro! I will check them out!
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A guest appearance from Tim Aymar, I might have to check this out although the bands you've mentioned don't make it sound very appealing to me.
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For those of you who haven't yet listened to it, Album is streaming here
---- Freeze! Step away from the hubris.
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