I thought they used to be straight up goregrind, or am I wrong?

I always saw them as brutal death with some grind leanings here and there, and gore lyrics yeah, but never as a goregrind or even grindcore act. Maybe someone who's heavily into their discography can clarify this?

They're watered-down brutal death with a tinge of grind. Nothing even remotely goregrind.

I always thought Aborted were deathcore? Truly an awful band, either way.

What?! Oh my, what have I done, what have I done...

What, they're not deathcore at all. Malignant Throne is right, it's brutal death with some grind thrown in there.

Yeah, and they're definitely not an awful band. Global Flatline should prove that.

Edit: Oh, and another positive review for Dark Adrenaline.

Well, I haven't heard much from the band. I remember listening to "Goremageddon" and thinking it had metalcore elements (mostly vocals) mixed with death metal, but I don't remember much metalcore on "Engineering the Dead" when I heard that, so maybe it's just that one album, or it could be that I wasn't really listening clearly enough as the vocalist ruins the band for me.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/T ... imuszgrime

It confounds me that people think that an albums value is greatly reduced just because programmed drums were used. Of course, in Torsofuck's case, programmed drums are the least of their music's problems.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/T ... 3/Wilytank

It confounds me that people think that an album's value is greatly reduced just because of its over-the-top gore theme. Of course, in your review's case, that particular criticism is the least of its problems.

Seriously, you compared it to Waking the Cadaver? All of my what in the fucking hell.

Conceptual content is a hell of a lot more significant than whether or not the drums are performed by a human (which would most likely be triggered and further manipulated anyway). Al brutal/slam/goregrind is gay and sucks anyway.

Production wise, they sound too similar. Otherwise, WtC IS infinitely better than Torsofuck in that they're just bad.

I can give leeway for subjective experience and this statement would still be unbelievably wrong. Waking the Cadaver's production job (at least on the first album which is really what everyone who considers them to be the nadir of music pays attention to anyways) is dry and murky, and surprisingly undistorted for a slam band. Compare that to Torsofuck, whose riffs are so drenched in bass and distortion that most of them literally have no distinguishable melodies. Your statement is basically as valid as "Blind Guardian took quite a bit of influence from Slipknot on their first album".

Exactly. Torsofuck guitars sound like the fucking apocalypse, whereas WtC implements something akin to a basic metalcore production job.

Well, I've been through boring apocalypses before, so...

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... addyZeus67

Oh god, my sides! Why isn't this guy writing comedy?

If there was a way to simply block reviews from appearing, he's the one guy I'd use the feature on.

From his profile page:


Holy shit.

Holy. Shit.

No one even somewhat lucid or capable of any intelligence whatsoever could possibly think that, could they?

The world we live in, oh my...

You didn't know that? I put two and two together when I saw UNPW bitching about CC a few months ago. I called him out on it (though I never looked at the profile to see that he just outright said who he was) and he said he's always hated me. It was awesome.

I never knew that either. That explains everything.

I'll be sure to completely disregard every one of his opinions.

And he has two other Cannibal Corpse reviews?

He never can be satisfied, can he?

I was wondering why usernamepassword never made any sense! I actually listened to some Gore Obsessed today, really good album.

lol you people couldn't figure that out until now? I never tried to deny that I'm DaddyZeus67 and I even admitted to it a couple times here on the forums...yeah I know I was an idiot back then but really you losers bitching about it aren't any bit better.

those are really old reviews btw, I cant even bring myself to read them anymore because they suck so much...I mean my opinions havent really changed, Gore Obsessed is still a shit album and I much rather listen to SFU than later Cannibal Corpse but really I hate that shit I used to write.

Bye.

You just Dursted UNPW?

Why do you think he said bye?

Don't really agree with the new Pestilence review. I think it's quite poorly written and the ''least unique of the 4 albums''' statement is something I strongly disagree with. Can't really think of any other thrash metal albums that sound similiar to it.

Colin, I'm aware of what failsafeman did, so you don't need to be so condescending. I was just surprised that UNPW didn't get banned before. And the topic ends here, because I don't want to derail the thread nor get banned myself.

*condescending

Thank you.

Just read ANationalAcrobat's review of Manilla Road's trusty "Metal" album. Pretty damned spiffy while being down to earth the whole time. Nice job.

ANationalAcrobat writes great reviews for the most part. His style is always fresh and lively. I like 'em a lot.

Agreed, and it helps that we both adore classic US power metal, my absolute favorite genre of all time. Crimson Glory and Fates Warning for the fucking win!
Can't agree with his views on Pharaoh, however...

ANationalAcrobat's review of Sabbath's Born Again is what prompted me to go back to the album, both because of how charming he made it sound and because I spent the whole reading time laughing like an idiot. I owed it to him.

I think somebody once said of ANA, "You know how a lot of people get really enthusiastic and find all kinds of creative, clever, and humorous ways to say an album is terrible? Well I love ANationalAcrobat because he does that, except he does it for when he likes something".

Some quote along those lines, but it describes his style very well. I write more reviews than I read for the most part, but ANA is indeed a favorite of mine. He has his own unique voice and style, plus he's intelligent with his music and immensely entertaining.

I see that all the time, I truly don't understand it. Some guy was arguing with me that it made the music souless because they can't actually play it and that's why he didn't listen to anything with triggers cause it's "cheating". Some people.

[/quote]I always saw them as brutal death with some grind leanings here and there, and gore lyrics yeah, but never as a goregrind or even grindcore act. Maybe someone who's heavily into their discography can clarify this?[/quote]
Goremageddon is the only Goregrind thing they've done, the rest is Brutal Death through and through.

So today I happened upon Doomknocker's review of Ozzy's Blizzard of Ozz with its whopping score of something like 25%. I didn't realize I needed a laugh that badly, not because the review's badly written or because of the overall content that had me puzzled even before I read word one, but because the guy's pretty darn funny. So of course I start with the reviews with the lowest scores:

For Nightwish’s “Dark Passion Play”:

If I thought “Once” was the creative nadir of the group, then “Dark Passion Play” beats that dead horse so deep into the ground it’s halfway to China. What a wreck. What a fucking pitiful, miasmic, ignominious, hollow, tasteless, burnt beyond recognition WRECK! I’m talking both the album and the band, here, by the way. I swear, the whole time I subjected myself to this Abu Ghraib-style musical torment I sat numbly, my eyes barely blinking and mouth agape in utter disbelief and confounded silence.

For Ishitrobots’ “Doom”:

I should've known I was heading into trouble when one of the most disproportionately unintelligible logos comes screaming at me amidst a gaping maw of jagged teeth. But, I tell myself, I've been through worse...I've been engaged twice, I can handle anything. But I was sadly, sadly, SADLY mistaken.


For Ozzy’s “Blizzard of Ozz”:

And at the end of the day, it's the songs themselves that are supposed to be the main reason for consistent lovey-doveyness, and none of them have any sort of staying power; tepid, middle-of-the-road, and devoid of any sort of substance outside of obvious ability...and the biggest sin in all of this is the lamentable "Crazy Train". By all the gods of death, I hate hate HATE this song with every fiber of my being; annoying, overplayed, and performed with that "just starting out" band feel that stays in the listener's head far too long (and am I the only one here who noticed that the first part of Randy's solo is OUT OF KEY??? Oops!

From Pro-Pain’s “Absolute Power”:

Straight away, I’ll start off by saying that hardcore is not my cup of tea by any stretch. From the solipsism of HATEBREED to the screaming-like-an-asshole approach of NEW BLOOD (I miss those goons…), there’s nothing really worth noting in terms of hardcore in this day and age.

Shucks, you guys make me blush. I really need to get back on the review wagon, now.