Gorguts - Colored Sands (#8386)

metalgod · **Joined:** Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:50 am **Posts:** 5515

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Gorguts - Colored Sands
Death metal
Quoted: 90 / 100

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traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:39 am

Was never a huge Gorguts fan, but this album is solid. Battle of Chamdo is awesome.

voxmonster · **Joined:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:41 am **Posts:** 204

This is a top ten album this year. Plenty to chew on. Great dynamics and atmosphere. This album really takes you somewhere. I haven't stop spinning it since it came out and I keep finding new reasons to love it. In a world where cookie cutter Death Metal runs rampant it's nice to see a band that continues to evolve and build on their trademark original sound.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:46 pm

No arguments there, or with the review. Fantastic album.

North From Here · **Posted:** Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:11 pm

Well, gonna have to hear this soon, obviously.

NP--Forgotten Arrows has a Through Silver in Blood era Neurosis styled ending. I like, a lot.

paulrawnerve · **Joined:** Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:05 pm **Posts:** 10

one of the best bands ever, any style.
'obscura' completely changed extreme metal.
i need to listen to this album a lot more than i have so far.

Nickelback666 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:10 pm

Obscura didn't change anything. Technical death metal had already been an emergent years before, Obscura did nothing that superior bands like Nocturnus or Suffocation (who influenced Gorguts) hadn't already accomplished. That being said even bands who are influenced by Gorguts i,e Portal, Mitochondrion, and the like do Gorguts style better than they do.

These guys remain one of the most overrated second tier acts in death metal.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:37 pm

Nickelback666 wrote:

These guys remain one of the most overrated second tier acts in death metal.

I think I agree. Even if I like this album.

North From Here · **Posted:** Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:36 am

traptunderice wrote:

Nickelback666 wrote:

These guys remain one of the most overrated second tier acts in death metal.

I think I agree. Even if I like this album.

Portal and Mitochondrion do it better, agreed, but I still like them. That said, Suffocation is also a wee bit overrated by certain people.

Nickelback666 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:47 am

Subjective considerations aside.

The impact they had on death metal is rivaled only by the founders of the style. The vast majority of tech/brutal bands have taken many elements of their sound that were simply never expounded upon by other bands and or non existent prior to their emergence in the scene, they are the most influential death metal band post-Morbid Angel across the DM spectum.

North From Here · **Posted:** Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:53 am

Nickelback666 wrote:

Subjective considerations aside.

The impact they had on death metal is rivaled only by the founders of the style. The vast majority of tech/brutal bands have taken many elements of their sound that were simply never expounded upon by other bands and or non existent prior to their emergence in the scene, they are the most influential death metal band post-Morbid Angel across the DM spectum.

Agreed and probably agreed. That said, should one be hung for admitting they find Pierced from Within difficult to listen through?

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