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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - The Great Misdirect Metalcore | review permalink
DARK ANGEL - Darkness Descends Thrash Metal | review permalink
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AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED - Altered States of America Grindcore | review permalink

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Metal Genre Nb. Rated Avg. rating
1 Grindcore 14 2.54
2 Proto-Metal 14 3.93
3 Thrash Metal 13 3.19
4 Hard Rock 8 2.69
5 Metalcore 7 3.64
6 Progressive Metal 6 4.08
7 Traditional heavy metal 6 3.17
8 Industrial Metal 5 2.20
9 Black Metal 4 2.63
10 Alternative Metal 3 1.67
11 Avant-garde Metal 3 4.67
12 Sludge/Post-metal 3 4.33
13 Death Metal 2 3.00
14 Doom Metal 1 4.00

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AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED Altered States of America

Album · 2003 · Grindcore
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A pinnacle in the history of grindcore. Agoraphobic Nosebleeds second studio album sees the band taking their brand of cybergrind to an extreme that no grindcore band had done previously. With 99 songs and a running time of just under 20 minutes, this is not for the faint of heart.

What makes this release an absolute masterpiece is, that while this is extremely punishing and akin to being punched, it is short enough to not become annoying or cause a headache, and they're is enough breaks from the blasting grindcore that make this "easier" to listen to, which has been the downfall of some other hour long albums of nonstop blasts of grindcore. These mostly consist of strange short spoken word segments about things like the Aum Shinrikyo cult that gassed the subways of Tokyo and some disturbing sound clips of people talking about sodomy and rape of little children. Another thing about this album is that it follows the one gigantic song formula that some other grindcore bands use, which also makes this a lot easier on the ears as everything flows and segues perfectly into each other.

This an essential piece of music not just because of it's historical importance, but because it is towering achievement of musical genius from Scott Hull and Co.



AGATHOCLES If This Is Cruel What's Vivisection Then?

EP · 1990 · Grindcore
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One of many, many, many releases by Mincecore band Agathocles. I was expecting this E.P. to not be very good, but I was pleasantly (?) surprised to find that this is a very good offering by Agathocles.

While all the songs here have been released a ridiculous amount of times, and on much easier to find releases, this is very worthy of getting into any grindcore fans collection. The sound quality was probably the most surprising thing here. it is very good for such an early grindcore E.P., with all the instruments being clear and distinguishable, yet it also retains that somewhat of a raw quality that is employed by a ton of grindcore bands, intentional or not.

The songs themselves are some of Agathocles most loved songs, and some of their best, especially Consuming Endoderma Pus, and Mutilated Regurgitator, which are two of my favorite short blasting grindcore songs of theres. I also really like the longer song Trust? Not Me, which is more in the groovegrind vein, which features some of the best grindcore riffage ever put to release (for me anyway).

While this ranks higher personaly for me than the 2and a half stars I'm giving it here, it really isn't something you should go run out and try to find as these are on practically every compilation by the band. Great for the grindcore enthusiast though.

URIAH HEEP Salisbury

Album · 1971 · Proto-Metal
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The Heeps second album is another great, early Heavy Guitar and Organ/Keyboard driven album. Uriah Heeps ability to come up with great heavy rocking songs is present with the especially epic Bird Of Prey, and the just as strong, Time To Live. They also created two of my favorite softer Heep songs with The Park and the especially epic, chilling and Lady In Black, which is firmly and easily in my top 3 fav Heep songs. The song High Priestess switches between a softer sound and a heavy-ern more rocking sound, which features some great guitar work by the severly underrated Mick Box. The closing sixteen minute song, Salisbury, is unlike any other Uriah Heep song ever, with it's stunningly beautiful, and at times very dark, backing brass ection. The song is a tour-de-force for all the members of the band, with some more great guitar work from Mick Box, and some really strong bass playing from Paul Newton.

All in all, this is a masterpiece from a band that never truly got as much recognition as similar bands in the Heavy Prog vein. Essential.

PIGTO Muddy Bodies of Semen and Blood

Album · 2006 · Grindcore
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Pigto strikes again.

This is so far, and hopefully, the last album from Mexican Gore/Porno grind band Pigto. I really can't think of anything nice to say about this album and this band. This just as terrible as the previous album, with the exception that the drums are actually able to keep the beat. This is because it is a drum machine, and it is a incredibly horrible sounding drum machine at that. Also the sound quality might have improved by a smidgen. The stupid horror B-movie sound clips are still here, and still as disgusting and bad.

Basically everything that applied to the previous album applies here, a horrible and insulting album to the grindcore genre, metal genre, and music as a whole.

THE BLACK CROWES Greatest Hits 1990-1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress

Boxset / Compilation · 2000 · Hard Rock
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This is a pretty good collection of songs from Led Zep worshippers The Black Crowes. It's got all of their best songs they had done up to when this was released, and some that aren't near as well known, but just as good as songs like Hard To Handle and She Talks To Angels.

This still doesn't mean you should get this if you aren't a collector of things by this band. It's a much better idea to get the original releases (unless you you don't want to have look at the cover to Amorica, then thats quite understandable). Good collection, but thats all it is.

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