Damn, its been quite some time since I've written anything on here! I just about gave up writing on here but I had someone motivate me to start up again. I recently received some used albums in the mail from a seller that I found on metal-archives.com. If you need a place to go to discuss metal music, trade, buy or sell music, or just to bullshit around and learn about new music, thats the place for you!
The albums I got were Carcass's Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism, Behemoths Thelema.6 and Evangelion, and Korkiklaani's Karkelo. Carcass is a recent band I got into through their 2013 comeback, Surgical Steel. I was amazed at how a band could seamlessly merge their old school death metal style with their (for lack of a better term) newer melodic metal style together so well. Yeah, i know there are plenty of melodic death metal bands out there, but from a band who started at death metal and is now writing melodic death metal with their entire catalog of albums still sounding like that bands record is quite an accomplishment in my eyes. Anyways, I haven't had a ton of time to really listen to Symphonies of Sickness, but the one record I was super excited to listen to was Necroticism. A few friends of mine said the album was amazing and they sure weren't wrong! From the first track, until the last dominating riff of the album, Carcass keeps their style of medical-infused metal alive and kicking!
Behemoth, while not my favorite black/death metal band, is nonetheless one of the most popular out there. I bought their Thelema.6 album to experiment with the older sound of Behemoth. I was familiar with there black metal EP "And The Forests Dream Eternally" but never went into their material when they first started incorporating death metal into their sound as well. Blast beats are not my favorite style of drumming and that is the only hold back for me with Behemoth. Their newest album, The Satanist, appeals to my liking a lot more, but that doesn't mean Thelema.6 is a bad album by any means. It has that Behemoth feel to it, just like anything the band does, and the atmosphere they create is amazingly strong throughout. Again, to review the album a little further would require a little more in depth listening.
Korpiklaani is a band I learned of days before ordering the album Karkelo. Karkelo, Finnish for "to party" or "to have fun", basically sums up the style of Korpiklaani's music. Vodka, the lead and sole single of the album is one of the best drinking songs I have ever heard (other than Turisas's "One More"). The rest of the album, while almost entirely in Finnish, is still catchy and worthy of quite a few playthroughs!
No comments:
Post a Comment