Metal Reviews

Nice avatar...

its too bad that their vocalist really sucks live...

Man, you guys were fucking dicks in this thread! :( Did you run Cody off? He disappeared two reviews later.

Anyway, I got this album today for $2 and anyone assuming this is typical metalcore is wrong. The melodic death metal tag is VERY appropriate. There are some metalcore moments, but there isn't any clean singing—as far as I heard, I only listened to about half the songs all the way through, and skimmed through the rest. It's a pretty chaotic CD that is very much rooted in melodic death metal.

I think a lot of you would like this.

TWO INCHES FROM A MAIN ARTERY

And this isn't their debut record, as the review says.

Eyesore KO1 Cody

Lolz - we ran him off - Eyesore KO1 Cody.

Yeah, I checked them out at the time. Nothing that amazing, although slightly better than the facelesscore hordes. The intro of that song makes it sound a lot better than it's going to be, as well. Overall - meh, but worth $2, I suppose.

That was because he was wrong about the "debut album" bit.


Indeed, I'd even say it was worth $5.

this band was really bad yesterday. :|

this poster was really negative yesterday. :|

He's right though.

No, he's not.

Well, fuck me. You were at Sounds of the Ungerground in Mesa, Arizona yesterday? Why didn't you say you were going to be there? We could have hung out.

that's how I feel about basically every subgenre of metal

Then why the hell are you here?

Was he specific? I didn't realize he'd seen them live yesterday, I figured he was just saying they sucked yesterday, they suck today. Typical response from him, you know?

Sorry, I'll try to be more specific in my future posts.

I guess. They were quite awful live though. The singer is horrible live.

Well, I don't find them to be an amazing band, you know? Just good, but they've got far more of that chaotic Between The Buried And Me style and melodic death metal than most metalcore bands, so I figured I'd resurrect the thread.

...because metal is my favourite type of music?

Actually, this is their first full length. The Scars of Ages was their first EP followed by a split album with The Knife Trade, therefore, Bloodlust is their debut full length.

Man Eyesore, you KOed me without even doing your research. :-p But im back now to review, so at least I can defend myself now.

Indeed, I did.



"Debut full-length" is very different from "debut." I never forget to do my research, sonny.

One of the stupidest frases I have ever heard is "It sounds like real melodic death metal, not like the gothenburg sound" Please, what are you saying?! I haven´t hear this band but it´s not about that, how can you say that when Melodic Death Metal was motherfuckin born in Gothenburg Sweden?? the REAL melodic death metal is that of In Flames Dark Tranquility (some consider At the Gates) and such, it is the REAL because it is the FIRST understand that!

Cryptopsy?? Not melodic death metal AT ALL. It can be melodic sometimes, but that does not make it "melodic death metal", hell for that you could consider cannibal corpse to be melodic death metal just because it has guitar solos cause that´s what youre saying with cryptopsy! Phobophile has a piano intro, Cold hate has clean guitar intro, crown of horns is not and will never be melodic death, please dont try defending it any more, it could get dangerous

On Amon Amarth you make a bit more of a point, as in fact the band is "death metal" but with a lot of "melody" but that does not make them "melodic death metal" for MDM is not just three words, those three words put together hold a definition which has it´s history and it´s characteristics, and Amon amarth does not seem to fit most of these charachteristics, mainly all they have in common with Melodic Death Metal bands is the "Death metal" and the "melody" but as i said, its not just that. In case you don´t know how to define Melodic Death metal, I´m way too lazy to talk about that, just check wikipedia or something

P.S. If I´m not wrong you were mentioning swedish bands as in Dissection or Amon Amarth? I hope you know Cryptopsy is not swedish, don´t understand why it came into the conversation as an example as it is neither melodic death nor swedish

Btw, I think its pretty lame to steal your band name from a famous band´s song name (Cannibal Corpse - Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead) and the review sucks, it says nothing about the album, it sounds more like a black dahlia murder review in disguise