Father Of The Wolf is even on the edge to heavy metal, yet with a furious and screaming Johan Hegg, whose voice also go hand in hand with the music, back to earlier days

Sweet, Steve French finally did another review.

it's review challenge week.

I'm a little surprised how Twisted_Psychology practically says Queensrÿche's Dedicated to Chaos is a shit album, yet he gives a royal 65%.
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Q ... chor148440
I wonder what he thinks is worth 10%.

Speaking of which, I think I asked this before but it might have got lost or something - I've seen in plenty of posts and reviews that people actually consider American Soldier worse than Dedicated to Chaos. Why is that? American Soldier is inconsistent as hell but it still shows some ambitions and some tracks do have an actual atmosphere. Dedicated to Chaos is... I don't know if even Tate himself knows what the fuck this album is.

Try reading through the reviews and you'll probably get a good idea. I haven't reviewed "Dedicated To Chaos" yet but I plan to give it the same score that I gave "American Soldier". They are completely worthless for slightly different reasons, the former is basically fluff, while the latter is just an outright trip through crappy nu-metal land with a lot of boring voice-overs.

Speaking of which, I think I asked this before but it might have got lost or something - I've seen in plenty of posts and reviews that people actually consider American Soldier worse than Dedicated to Chaos. Why is that? American Soldier is inconsistent as hell but it still shows some ambitions and some tracks do have an actual atmosphere. Dedicated to Chaos is... I don't know if even Tate himself knows what the fuck this album is.

I heard the lead single off of DtC and decided my time would be better spent listening to nothing at all. I really can't see any worthwhile merits to even stooping so low as to listen to the whole album.

Let me streamline the DtC listening process for you, brother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTwO-HB398

That's all you need to know.

Right on. Dedicated to Chaos is an abysmal, genre-hopping douchefest with no substance while American Soldier is Jason Slater's warped fanaticism. Both are horrendous in their own ways.

whenever I think of DtC I just hear the overexcited backing vocals "GOT IT BAD FOR YOOOOU".

good intentions gone awry

No, I'm scarred. Whenever I think DtC, I think...

and I believe it's the second time I post that pic in this thread.

This is my main problem with American Soldier. This album has all the potential to be fucking awesome. It doesn't have to be metal, but without all the completely unnecessary attempts at being poppy (because as we all know doing a concept album with narration is tested to be the best method of getting mainstream attention and sales...) and the goddamn backing vocals all over the place, and with a more serious take on some songs (The Killer is the worst offender ever in my books in terms of music horribly not fitting the lyrics), it would have the potential to be an excellent concept album. The lyrics for the most part are in my opinion very good. The quotes are mostly well-chosen (but not always well-placed). It has lots of potential. A lot of it is killed by utterly unnecessary and pointless poppiness. A Dead Man's Words and The Voice are perfect glimpses at what this album could have been (and are by far the two best songs).

This has been tugging at my head.

MCF, you didn't call it and "engine or something of the sort"; you did call it an engine.

Let me streamline the DtC listening process for you, brother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTwO-HB398

That's all you need to know.

Good review of Silver Veins, iamntbatman. You didn't mention the difference between the first and second half of the album though. That was something I found fairly interesting. I wonder what your thoughts are on that.

Something I disagree with you about regarding the production of Silver Veins is the warmth of the tones. I thought the album pretty much lacked the screaming black metal trebles and was entirely about warm, full tones.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Kreator/Hordes_of_Chaos/213162/Metal_Jaw

Reading this guy's reviews is usually a pretty banal experience, but here it's flat out obnoxious. Good god.

Good review of Silver Veins, iamntbatman. You didn't mention the difference between the first and second half of the album though. That was something I found fairly interesting. I wonder what your thoughts are on that.

Something I disagree with you about regarding the production of Silver Veins is the warmth of the tones. I thought the album pretty much lacked the screaming black metal trebles and was entirely about warm, full tones.

Still trying to get into this album, but I keep getting distracted... It starts out strong and then I seem to forget what I'm listening to or my drive home is over before the album finishes and then I never finish it... Doesn't help that one of my car speakers is blown and my 13 year old 51 disc changer is on it's last leg making CDs skip all over the place

Oh, I agree that it was really warm, much more so than most black metal albums. I guess I could've emphasized that further but I thought bringing it up at all would be enough. I did think it was trebly enough for the style, though.

Maybe I just have a short attention span or something, but I found that the mood swing from the first half to the second (the first half being darker and more brooding, the second half brighter, faster on average, and more uplifting) was easy to forget about. The second half of the album is stronger and more memorable for me. I thought I tried to describe this in the second to last paragraph.

Time to point out another arrangement of words I find awkward to read!

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... apeTheDead

"man fuck Trifixion"

I can't tell if that's a statement or a request for another dude to fuck Summoning's former drummer.