Comments on: Pathology – Awaken to the Suffering

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:48:13 +0000

Gaba- ahh, now I get what you meant with that…. I interpreted your description as a note about the ‘feeling’ of the music, not its actual structure, that’s why I thought of the old school stuff.

The tough guy/broseph posturing of this bands vocalist on stage makes it even worse !

Oh well. Different stroke… I guess !

By: Clauricaune

Clauricaune — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:00:57 +0000

I’m with Biff on this one. At first I was impressed with the technical skills and musicianship these guys show… then the record started to bore the hell out of me with each passing song.

This is just masturbation. I sort of like a couple of songs/passages, but there’s very little feeling in this overall.

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:37:09 +0000

ha ha Biff – that bit about the pure musical equivalent of death and decay was meant to evoke the fact that slam death is largely structureless and sloppy, just as our bodies will one day turn into soup. Grave, Dismember, Entombed and the like are much too ordered to satisfy that metaphor. guess I didn’t get that across too well…

By: Reignman35

Reignman35 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:20:06 +0000

Slam is and always will be a guilty pleasure of mine. If you’re looking for a good band to check out try ‘Cranial Osteotomy’. Slam at its FINEST…

By: GrandAeon

GrandAeon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:12:12 +0000

Slam is the new breakdown.

Remember when hardcore bands started abusing breakdowns? Now brutal death metal bands are doing the same but can’t call it a breakdown (it’d be too trendy). So “slamming” it is.

A couple slams per album is nice. One slam per song is pushing it. Slams across the board is fucking boring and is just a strong indication the band can’t write or play.

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:07:21 +0000

I’ve had the displeasure of seeing this band live twice in the last year, most recently with Grave a few nights ago.
I just think this stuff is absolutely terrible…there is just no feeling/atmosphere in it at all. You can play guitar well…I get it, now please write a memorable RIFF.

Metal, at it’s core I think is all about the riff. If your band can’t write good riffs that sound like more than masturbatory one-upmanship, then you can’t write a good song. Without strong songwriting, a band is nothing.

“Slam death represents death and decay in its purest musical form – a disgusting sludge meant to evoke the horrible, inescapable reality that one day, your flesh will brown and liquefy before sloughing off your cold, brittle bones”

Completely disagree on this one, Gaba. To me, what you described is the very essence of what is now ‘old school’ death metal : Nihilist/early Entombed , Grave , Incantation, Dismember, Autopsy etc etc ….not this new breed of tough guy stuff.

Great write up as always, though !

By: E. Thomas

E. Thomas — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:56:41 +0000

Good Cd. much improved from debut, and they have some sneaky melody in the slam/brutality