Crowbar - Live + 1
The live versions sound great - no heaviness was lost at all in the transition to live recording. The “+1” track, “Numb Sensitive,” sounds just like their other stuff, which is to say, thick and pretty heavy. The real question is: Do you like live albums? Or: Are you willing to pay the cash for only one new track? Their singer is wearing a Motorhead shirt in the back cover photo, so that helps a lot for me.
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Crawlspace (New Hampshire - USA) - Shelter
Pretty decent Hardcore, with a lot of energy. The somewhat raw production helps give them a “meaty” sound, which in this case, is good. The Good Guy lyrics bothered me, but maybe you won’t mind. [The band changed its name to Everdown after recording this EP. -Editor]
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Crawl/Child - Principles of Exclusion
Holy shit, is this distorted! Imagine E.N.T., but the vocals and, I think guitars, and sometimes drums, run through a massive distortion, or maybe those elements are just mastered too loudly, like the speaker-raping 13th track on Exit-13’s Ethos Musick. The difference here being that the whole CD has this sound, and that, thankfully, it only sounds like it’s mastered at 50 times the normal level - it’s actually mastered a tiny bit low, so no speaker damage from this brain fucker. Ultra-freaky, and if that wasn’t enough, there are odd sounds and keyboards thrown over the top of this just for added spite. You want the most intense “soundscapes” ever? Here you go.
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Corpsevomit - Gathering Chemical Children
As far as Death Metal is concerned, I just don’t see it getting a whole lot better than Corpsevomit. They are beyond heavy, and intense past all reason. The production is punishing, but never muddy, and the mix is really perfect. Deicide wish they sounded this good. Anyway, Corpsevomit alter their attack from crushing slowness to numbing speed, and use their power to utterly destroy the listener. This demo should get them signed immediately.
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Convulse - Reflections
Very high energy music and vox. Their sound is not an easy one to describe, and that’s good, because it means that I can’t easily compare them to another band. They’re kinda groovy, and the riffs are sometimes in the NWOBHM vein, but the vocals are kinda harsh - not really Death growls usually (although they can get raw when necessary), and certainly not Hardcore yells or melodic singing. I will rip off my own review of their MCD and say that it’s a sound not unlike that which Cemetary had on their Godless Beauty album. Originality in this day and age is a tough thing to find, and Convulse successfully integrates that with good songs to come up with quite an excellent CD.
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Conscious Rot - The Soil
Intense, and bass heavy Death Metal from Lithuania, which is quickly becoming well known for very high quality extreme Metal bands. Conscious Rot are not quite up to Ghostorm’s level yet, but they tear through these songs with tremendous energy, and the songs themselves are well written and played, as well as being pretty memorable. A little fine tuning, and these guys will be able to go head to head with anyone.
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Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
For a brief moment here and there, I thought this was going to pick up a little, but I was wrong. Standard radio Rock piece of complete shit.
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Collapsing Lungs - Colorblind
When I saw this band’s “tough-guy” picture, I was prepared for them to really suck shit. To my surprise, other than mostly terrible lyrics, this isn’t too bad. Sort of a Hardcore sound, with samples and some Rap-ish elements.
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Collapse - Martyr Specimen
The music has a groove to it, but isn’t exactly what is thought of as groovy. This sounds more like later day Voivod, but the vocals are a sort of horse yell. It’s a pretty unique sound, and I like it. Maybe you will too.
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