JUSTIN’S MEETAL REVEIWS W/C
MY DYING BRIDE / FOR LIES I SIRE
If you like Doom Metal with a Gothic tinge, then this latest
CD from My Dying Bride will be just what your looking for, dark, oppressive,
mournful melodies with lyrics to
match.
All the songs are delivered with the bands usual style and
attitude, full of morose imagery and utter hopelessness that we have come to
know and love. The one thing that
does strike me is that there is much more violin on this CD, its good to hear
them using it more as it does give the songs another dimension, just listen to
the opening track “My Body A Funeral”, which is appropriately played at a
funeral pace, with very good poetic, descriptive lyrics delivered, very slow and
deliberate, that set the scene nicely with a spoken bit in the middle, very
Gothic indeed. The title track is
similar in style and content and just as good. It’s not until track eight “A Chapter
In Loathing” that the pace picks up; in fact this track
is the heaviest on the album and my personal
favourite.
If you like Doom / Gothic Metal then this album will confirm
what you already know, that My Dying Bride are the masters, Doom Metal is not
for everyone though but it is totally awesome when you get into it, not a casual
buy but for the true aficionado this is a very powerful album. Listen out for: “Shadowhaunt”, “Fall With Me”,
“Death Triumphant” and “Bring Me Victory”.
WEBSITE http://www.mydyingbride.org/ & http://www.peaceville.com/
TOTAL PLEYING TIME = 60 mins + 9
TRACKS
MASTODON / CRACK THE SKYE
This is the 4th album from Technical Groove Metal
band Mastodon and they just keep getting better and better, Metal doesn’t get
much more adrenalin pumping than this, with more high speed twists and turns
than a downhill toboggan run.
The CD starts off in fine style with the enigmatic
“Oblivion” which proves that 21st Century Metal can be fresh,
exciting and original, “Divination” is just as good and “Quintessence” proves
just how high the quality control is.
The band get really Progressive with the brilliant four part “Czar” clock in at a respectable 10 minutes but when you
listen to it, it seems no where near that length of time. The album finish’s of with a total epic
“The Last Baron”, clocking in at just over 13 minutes of pure listening
pleasure, the dynamics of this are enough are sheer joy, with plenty of melody,
tempered with melody, aggression and plenty of fluid guitar
riffs.
This is a very fine album and there is not one track on here
that I could call inferior, this will not come as any surprise to fans of the
band but should make some new ones sit up and listen and a well deserved album
of the week on my HFM show, you can be sure I will be playing every track sooner
than later.
WEBSITE http://www.mastodonrocks.com/ & http://relapse.com/
TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 48 mins + 7
BRILLIANT TRACKS