Fuelblooded - Off The Face Of The Earth - review
Fuelblooded - Off The Face Of The Earth - review
Band
Fuelblooded Release date
October 06, 2009 Tracklist
01. The End Starts Here02. Discounted Dormancy
03. When Passion Dies
04. Recipe For Demise
05. The Cult Of Ego
06. Off The Face Of The Earth
07. The Wrath Of A'ath
08. Pandemic Persecution
09. Demonized
A review by
Bas March 04, 2010
Ok, enough of my personal life, regardless of how cool and exciting it may be, now to describe the album at hand. As already mentioned the band plays melodic death metal, the thrashy sort to be exact, and from what I gathered Trivium, Darkane and Arch Enemy served as role models. Off The Face Of The Earth is their second full-length after 8 years of existence and contains a huge amount of melodic guitar solos.
The drumming is usually pretty fast, but pretty monotone as well, and not in the pretty way. Some of the riffs are really good, but the majority of them are just too soft for my taste. After all melodic death metal should be a lot death with a bit of melody, not a whole lot of melody with a smidgen of death, if you ask me.
Now the vocals are the most interesting issue that's up for discussion. Vocalist Peter Brinkman can put out some decent growls, but it turns out he prefers singing cleanly. His clean singing is pretty good, but it really doesn't fit. Somewhere in between heavy metal (ever heard of Iced Earth?) and alternative metal a ton of bands would be happy to have him. But well, the rest of the music is melodic death metal, and even though it's very melodic, his clean voice just doesn't really fit.
The production of the album is great and the musicianship is pretty tight too, but in the end this is just another of many many unimpressive bands in the world of metal.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 7 |
| Songwriting: | 5 |
| Originality: | 5 |
| Production: | 9 |
Written by Bas | March 04, 2010
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Mmm, you name Trivium, Arch Enemey and Darkane and not a single one of them plays melodic death metal. So how come you think Fuelblooded plays it? I have seen the band a couple of times and nothing melodic death metal about them. MOdern thrash, yes. But NOT melodic death metal. Btw, guitarist Danny Tunker is also part of Detonation.
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Posts: 887 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 05.03.2010 at 01:56 What do Arch Enemy Play?! and what does Modern Thrash entail..examples?!
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Posts: 21306 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 05.03.2010 at 01:56 They label themselves as melodic death / thrash and I'd have to agree. Maybe they aren't Cannibal Corpse+melody+Exodus, but they are that new brand of melodic death metal infused with the clean thrash sound (like a "modern Gothenburg" style). It's hard to explain. Descriptive enough review. I'd rate it 5/10, mainly for those out-of-place clean vocals and bland musicianship. Some of the riffs are okay.
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Arch enemy and their likes do NOT play melodic death metal, we´ve had this conversation before and it will keep on going to eternity, but they dont play melodic DEATH metal.
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