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Man, I just picked up Victory.Intolerance.Mastery from the used bin a few weeks ago, and it was dreadful. I mean, I'm not trying to be funny here, but it was just muffled noise. The samples on MySpace are the same.

I like a lot of stuff, and I have no issues with people liking music I don't like, but I can listen to most styles of music and hear why some people would like it. Revenge, and many other bands, play a style that I just can't wrap my head around. What is that draws people to this kind of music?

I have to agree with you 100%. "Noise" is definitely the most appropriate word to describe this stuff. My first impression of the vocals made me think of the Exorcist. It sounds familiar to the voice-track they used in some of Reagan's possessed scenes. I thought I would be dodging pea soup as it streamed out of my speakers.

All joking aside, this stuff lacks any form of structure. I find nothing about it appealing.

Not for the faint-hearted.......indeed.

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"i'm in a band too, we're called hellspawn warhammers of the nordic wind. we play pulverizing war metal mixed with barbaric hate."

lolol

Well, this isn't really beginner-level stuff... not surprised you don't like it, Ken.

Ah, but it was never about me, huh? Sadly this is beginner-level stuff, Zad. A group of kids could make an album that sounded just as bad after a week of playing.

Well, fuck, I liked it.



That's almost an accurate description of their sound. However, instead of crashing over you like a wave, like Mayhem's Ordo Ad Chao did, this album sort of wraps itself around you.

It still isn't about you... and, of course, I meant it's not for beginner-level Black Metalheads like you. The band's actually got skills - listen to Angelcorpse - and it takes more than a few kids and a week's playing to make something this in depth.

Nothing off this album on the myspace?

They remind me a lot of other North American BM bands such as Black Funeral and Black Witchery where often it sounds like they're trying to be a bit naff on purpose, because this all adds to the charm. I bet they'd be a lot of fun live, although I'd probably steer pretty clear of them on record.

Wait, the songs from their Myspace weren't from this album?

EDIT: Oh. Now I see why I was fooled; all of their albums covers look similar.

I actually kind of like this too. I couldn't listen to it everyday, but I could pop this in every now and then. I prefer to see them live though.

Seriously, if none of you have checked Angelcorpse out, do so. Much easier to get into.

You should be more specific. You previous reply was old school Zad all the way.

By the way, I saw Angelcorpse in like 1997 at a shithole in Arkansas called The Closet. This "club" was a big room, rented out by this dude named Brian (I think) from the band Crankbait, and his wife. Saw lots of cool bands there, like Sickshine and Copsodomy, which featured older versions of some of the kids from Mutha's Day Out, who've now gone onto kick ass bands like Deadbird and Rwake. They had a cool little scene down there.

Anyway, there's nothing more odd than a band like Angelcorpse playing in a tiny carpeted room with no stage and a shitty fog machine, acting all evil and shit with their armbands with 10-inch spikes on them. Haha. It was total comedy. No corpsepaint, though.

But how did they play?

What do you mean? Was it good? Back then I was a bit more closeminded when it came to music. I thought they were horrible.

I see. Well their best album was imo "exterminate" and it was released in 1998 so maybe they were not in top form when you saw them...

Great stuff really. Chaotic black/death similar though less refined than Blasphemy or Bestial Warlust, I never even knew these guys were reviewed until I searched. Zad you should seriously review some Blasphemy or Bestial Warlust.