Primordial - Review - Redemption at the Puritans Hand

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This is an album I've been dying to hear for months and months! Primordial is one of my favorite bands and I've been drooling all over myself thinking about this album. Primordials past two albums, "The Gathering Wilderness" and "To The Nameless Dead" are without a doubt in the list of my top ten favorite albums of all time.


They have such an amazing mixture. Black Metal, Classic Heavy Metal, Celtic, and Irish Folk. That combined with the vocals make this band something extremely special and unique, There is nothing else like them today. They are truly a one of a kind band. 


The album starts off with "No Grave Deep Enough" and you know as soon as the music gets thumping and AA starts in with his amazing voice that this album is going to be amazing. And trust me it is. The vocalist travels seamlessly from his Black Metal rasp to his Unique clean style depending on what the songs call for. I have to admit he is fast becoming one of my favorite vocalist's 

Ok all joking and ass licking aside, let's get down to the real meat and bones of this review. The album is truly an epic. Can it compare to "to the nameless dead" and "The gathering wilderness" ? That's a very tough question and to be honest I'm not sure if it can. 


The music here is played flawlessly, AA's vocal performance is perfection as always. But I just don't get the feeling from this album that I got the first time I heard "to the nameless dead" Now before you shit your pants and leave hate comments listen. 


To the nameless dead, Is one of my favorite albums of all time. Its almost as close as any "and only a very small handful of bands have" can get to perfection. Now I'm not saying this is a bad album by any means. Just I think it's inferior to "to the nameless dead" 


All in all though this album gets a very solid score of 

9.8/10


Only con with the album is, Somethings off kilter with the tracks here. They piled all the epics in the beginning on the album, Well not counting "death of the gods" Which is the last song on the album. Just makes me feel they put the strongest tracks up front. meh I know that's a pittance but whatever made me feel weird when I listened to the album. But this is and will be a contender for Album of the year for sure. 


But hey! that's my ONLY con! lulz. And thats just faggoty nitpicking there. 

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Septicflesh - Review - The Great Mass

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Well as some of you will know I am a fan of Septicflesh. And was even lucky enough to interview two of the members recently. 


But this album! God I've been waiting on it forever it seems. But I admit I was worried they could never compare to the awesomeness that was "Communion" Thankfully... I was wrong! 


They took everything that was awesome from "Communion" and fucking ran with it! They turned the "epic" up to 11 on this effort that's for fucking sure. Orchestration is beyond vital to the outcome of this record. It's even the focal point of some of the tracks. 


The vocalist here is still using the same "underwater" sounding death growls. and it's perfectly suited. and the clean vox on this album is just superb, Tracks like "The Vampire From Nazareth" and  "A Great Mass of Death" are great examples of the clean vocals on this album. "A Great Mass of Death" even makes use of some female vocals. 


But the track "Oceans of Grey" Really stand out to me. Really epic sweeping orchestration in the intro. The it breaks your face for a minute. The takes it back down a notch only to break your face a minute later. I really hope this is the track they choose for the music video they will be making for the album soon. So many amazing visuals that could be used for this track.


Guitars are spot on the money. But they are not in the foreground most of the time. The true star on this album is the Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. They take what Christos wrote and really turn it into something special. They are basically another member of the band with this album. and they are equally as important as the rest of the members. 


Everything about this release is fucking superb. And after I gave the new TesseracT album a perfect 10/10 I thought it would be hard to top that. Happily that's not the case. I have ZERO problems with this album. This is purely and masterfully musical perfection. 


10/10 


I know it's only April. But unless the upcoming Primordial and Anaal Nathrakh really bring it. Or unless we find some other hidden band that's fucking breathtaking. This WILL be my album of the year. 


No album is more deserving of a perfect 10/10 Really pick this album up when it's available. This is a musical Masterpiece that completely transcends genres. And unless something odd happens or I get hit in the head and suffer a concussion. This will remain Possibly in my top ten favorite albums... ever. 

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