Carpathian Forest - We’re Going to Hollywood for This - Live Perversions (video)
If you like Black Metal, read no further and go immediately find this DVD! I have no idea what to even say is the coolest part about this disc… It’s wide-screen (for the main concert, at least), region 0, has Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, and clocks in at three and a half hours. But, that’s just the boring technical stuff. The real good (I mean, evil) shit starts even before the singer, Nattefrost, begins the show with “Good evening. Are you ready for some Norwegian Black Metal?” as the band and gargantuan “Carpathian dancers” are introduced, with the corpulent girls’ massive (and naked) jugs swinging all over the place between the titanic stage banners reading “FUCK YOU ALL!!!!” In addition to the 15 songs making up the main show, you also get another 8-song set from the Wacken Open Air 2003 festival, live bootleg (camcorder) videos, in the studio documentary footage from the Defending the Throne of Evil sessions, demo songs (audio only), and the standard Metal Mind treatment of interview, discography, photos, and so on. This is as complete a DVD as you’re likely to ever see, and an absolute must for Metal fans of all varieties.
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Carnal Rapture - Promo 2004
Extremely technical, richly layered, Prog-flavored Death Metal similar to latter era Death. Now by technical, I don’t mean fast (these guys for some reason think blast beats are gay), and by Prog-flavored, I don’t mean there are sissy Rush vocals. Thankfully, there is only a Death snarl. I simply mean that the musicianship is of very high quality, and that the band features a textured approach rather than a full-on brutality attack. As impressive as the playing is (even more impressive when you consider these guys are from Italy, a country where you can count the good Metal bands on one hand), I’ve listened to these two songs all morning, and all that really sticks is the Classical acoustic guitar arrangement on “Next Darkest Dream.” So maybe there’s a little too much going on here. Nevertheless, Carnal Rapture have a ton of talent and originality going for them, and that’s a damn fine place to start.
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Carnal Forge - Destory Live (video)
At almost two-and-a-half hours all told, you get a lot for your money with this disc. The main live show, which is wide-screen, is from February 2004, and at 20 songs is plenty long by itself, and then you also get two bonus, shorter, shows both from 2003 (New York and Tokyo). Unfortunately the bonus shows are not up the same very impressive audio/video quality of the main show, but they’re more than acceptable, and really more like what you might expect from any band further underground than Slipknot or whoever. Additionally, the packaging is supremely nice, with an actual booklet in the DVD case, and of course you get all the DVD bonus stuff such as an interview, band biography, and so on. Carnal Forge wasn’t really on my A-list of bands that I wanted to see perform live, but this DVD is very impressive, and should more than satisfy all the band’s fans.
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Carnal Forge - Aren’t You Dead Yet?
This band sounds just like The Haunted, except their drummer knows two drumbeats. Impressive I’ll admit, but not enough to keep me from slumber. There are a few bands that can pull off this ultra-fast Nu-Thrash (Corporation 187, Dimension Zero and Darkest Hour if you want to put them in that category), Carnal Forge just isn’t one of them. So, to answer the chic album title’s dapper inquiry, I am most certainly and quite unfortunately still alive.
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Cardiac Arrest - Heart Stopping Death Rot
A decent demo disc from these gore-obsessed Gialo Grinders. These guys, with a little bit more time, would fit perfectly on the Razorback roster, as they show traits of almost all their bands. Most of the necessary components are already in place. Good drumming, good raw vocals, good sound. They just need to put a little more into it. The songs just really don’t hold much interest at this point. I predict, however, a highly improved follow-up for these Midwest miscreants.
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Cadaveria - Far Away from Conformity
Man, has this bitch gone downhill. I remember her vocals for Opera IX being at least tolerable. Her abrasive vocals here are downright weak, and her clean singing sounds like fucking Lita Ford for christ’s sake (which coincidentally is very close to conformity). I’ll still masturbate to the poster I have of her by my bed, but it won’t mean as much.
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Cadaver - Necrosis
Regaining their senses (to some degree, at least), and once again simply going by “Cadaver,” this band has also turned the clock back on their sound in some ways. And I mean that in the best possible way. Some songs here are fairly modern sounding Black/Death Metal, while others have more of an old-school style/feeling, but all slightly suffer from a production that at times seems somewhat too polished. This is certainly not a flawless album, but it’s good enough to make me think that these blasphemous bastards have that in them.
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Burden of Grief - Fields of Salvation
That’s funny, I’m a fan of “In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, and Swedish Death Metal,” yet I certainly did not “freak over this German band’s impressive blend of melodic brutality.” What I did was yawn, repeatedly, at cookie cutter wannabe Gothenburg band #9,012. Where does Magick Records find these bottom-of-the-barrel sub par Metal bands? And why do they insist on marketing them as the greatest things since dual blow jobs? This will appeal to the soon-to-be-disappointed.
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Brodequin - Methods of Execution
Brodequin are as brutal as anyone. There is no denying their skill, endurance, or heaviness. Unfortunately when it comes to making it memorable or catchy in the slightest, they fall flat. I couldn’t tell these songs apart if you had a gun to my head. Some would argue that Death Metal isn’t supposed to be catchy. To those people, I say eat my ass.
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