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Friday, June 09, 2006
"'Revelations Of The Unsung' by Autumn Offering"
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Bill Vogel III
June 9, 2006 A.D.
The best Metalcore band to come along in ages is the mesmerizing and ferocious Autumn Offering. Their 2006 opus, "Revelations Of The Unsung" [Victory Records], welds powerful grooves into the Metalcore aggression with a melodic glimmer. Think Konkhra meets Atreyu, except heavier....
Autumn Offering fuses guttural growls, shrieks, and deep yells into a crushing assault. Tons of dark melodies intertwine with intense, intricate leads and blast-beats. The rhythms are addictively punishing. Softer moments add extra depth, but are used sparingly. There is a Gothic influence as well.
Autumn Offering is dark, brilliant, and uncompromising.
The most amazing of these bruisers includes "Revelation," the tenebrous roar of "Shadows Of Betrayal," "Beginning's End," "Last Desperado," and the intense and beautifully bleak "Doomed Generation." Autumn Offering is stunning.
In conclusion, Autumn Offering has unleashed one of the BEST release of 2006 with "Revelations Of The Unsung." Stay savage. Farewell.
Related Bands: Acid Bath, Closer Than Kin, Hatebreed,
Earth Crisis, Zao, Agony Scene, Freya,
A Perfect Murder, Martyr A.D., A18,
Between The Buried And Me, Turmoil,
Glasseater, Stretch Arm Strong, Haste,
Figure Four, Scar Culture, Silverstein,
Everytime I Die, Avenged Sevenfold,
Unearth, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch
Engage, Eighteen Visions, Poison The
Well, Chimaira, Bleeding Through,
Atreyu, Konkhra, Ligeia, Trivium,
Agony Scene, 36 Crazyfists, etc.
Keep the faith, and the AGGRESSION.
Copyright 2006.
Courtesy of Stranger Aeons Magazine.
W.B. Vogel III 6:57 PM
Thursday, June 08, 2006
"'Ascendancy' by Trivium"
by
Bill Vogel III
June 7, 2006 A.D.
Beautiful and brutal, Trivium takes a current popular style that is really overdone and still creates a better beast. Their 2005 opus, "Ascendancy" [Roadrunner Records], is a primal mixture of melody and maelstrom. It's Melodic Swedish Death Metal with a soul.
Trivium spirals into radiant darkness, charging Swedish Death is Hardcore chunkiness. Melodic grooves hardened the contrast between aggression and euphonious abysm. Clean vocals scrape against shrill growls. The guitars are both brutal and beautiful, a vicious virtuoso of perfect downcast glory.
The best songs include "Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr," "Drowned And Torn Asunder," the punishing "Rain," "Blinding Tears Will Break The Skies," and my favorite "Dying In Your Arms." Trivium surpasses the pack.
The new special edition adds extra tracks and a DVD, with "Master of Puppets" [Metallica cover], "Dying In Your Arms (Live)" [DVD], "Washing Away Me In The Tides," as well as tons more.
In summary, Trivium kills. This is one of the best releases of the year. Stay savage. Farewell.
Related Bands: Carcass, Darkest Hour, Dead To Fall, All
That Remains, Killswitch Engage, Silent
Civilian, Summer's End, At The Gates,
Sentenced, Haunted, Arch Enemy, Cadaver,
Soilwork, Eucharist, Mantiss, etc.
Keep the faith, and the AGGRESSION.
Copyright 2006.
Courtesy of Stranger Aeons Magazine.
W.B. Vogel III 9:18 AM
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