Kat's Metal CD Reviews
Aborted
Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical
Overture  
 Tracks:
1.The Chondrin Enigma 2.A Methodical Overture 3.Avenious 4.The Spaying Séance
5.And Carnage Basked In its Ebullience 6.The Foul Nucleus Of Resurrection
7.Archetype 8.Ingenuity in Genocide 9.Odious Emanation 10.Prolific Murder
Contrivance 11.Underneath Rorulent Soil 12.Surprise You’re Dead
Genre: Grind core Death Metal
I absolutely love this band. Because of this album. I had
never heard of them before until I heard this and the minute I heard it I was
hooked. The Chondrin Enigma is such a hardcore grind that will grab the
listener and never let them go. A Methodical Overture just pure brutality
through and through one of my favorites for this album. The whole album will
have your mind bound, tortured, brutally invaded and then left for dead. Just a
mind blowing album in it’s entirety. If you don’t have this album in your
collection you need to get it. This will be in the same category as either
Dying Fetus or Cannibal Corpse which happen to be in a category all their own.
Akercocke
Antichrist 
(Earache 2007)
Tracks: 1. Black Messiah, 2. Summon the Antichrist, 3.
Axiom, 4. The Promise, 5. My Rapturous Angel, 6. Distant Fires Reflect in the
Eyes of Satan, 7. Man Without Faith or Trust, 8. The Dark Inside, 9. Footsteps
Resound in an Empty Chapel, 10. Epode
Genre: Black Metal, Death Metal
My favorite tracks of this CD are 3, 5, 6, and 10; however,
all of the tracks have some aspect that was pleasing to my ears and was felt in
some part of my anatomy. Some of the tracks transported me to another time and
place where a ritual was being performed. Other tracks blasted thru the
speakers—they made me think that it was a mistake in the production of the sound
but you will find that beneath the chaos, there is in fact some sort of lyrical
theme going on. A majority of the tracks will give you a sound thrashing and
beating, interjecting into other tracks a caress with a melodic softness. All
around an enjoyable CD that belongs in any collection.
Animosity
Animal
 Tracks:
1. Terror storm 2. Tooth grinder 3. Bombs Over Rome 4. Evangelical 5.
Animal 6. Plunder Incorporated 7. Operating From The Ditch 8. You Can’t Win
9. Progression In Defeat 10. Elucidation 11. A Passionate Journey
Genre: Hardcore Thrash Metal
These boys are a bunch of political and social Deviants. Their lyrics on this
album reflect those on their first album. These songs range from politics to
religion. Being that these boys are so young it amazes me that they can grasp
the concept of or even care about politics and religion. Overall This smart
group of kids has a good concept of hardcore thrash as well, quite talented in
fact. The guitar and vocal rip to shreds as well as keeping in time with the
blast beats. Nice hooks throughout the album delivers an intense hardcore
beating.
As I Lay Dying
An Ocean Between Us
 Tracks:1.
Separation 2. Nothing Left 3. An Ocean Between Us 4. Within
Destruction 5. Forsaken 6. Comfort Betrays 7. I Never Wanted
8. Bury Us All 9. The Sound of Truth 10. Departed 11. Wrath
Upon Ourselves 12. This Is Who We Are.
Genre: Heavy Thrash Metal
Awesome opening to tracks 1, 2, 4, 8). The twin lead
guitars totally rip up all these songs especially at the beginnings. We have a
bit of a melodic vocals mixed in by new bassist Josh Gilbert as well as the
original behemoth growling vocals of Tim Labesis. Overall a fuckin Bitchen
album. This will rock your fuckin socks off. Hardcore is still at the center
of this band but they have incorporated a bit of a new melodic sounds that is
both welcome, engaging and necessary for progress.
Atreyu
Lead Sails, Paper Anchor
 Tracks:
1. Doomsday 2. Honor 3. Falling Down 4. Becoming the Bull
5. When Two Are One 6. Lose It 7. No One Cares 8. Can’t Happen
Here 9. Slow Burn 10. Blow 11. Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)
Genre: Hardcore Thrash Metal
These guys sound different than before. The vocals have
improved dramatically. This album sounds like they had fun producing it and you
can feel it. This is a fun album to listen to and it makes you feel good. It
is almost radio worthy nowadays. Doomsday Honor and Falling Down are just all
around hardcore feel good songs. Good beats and riffs. Lose it mixes cool and
soft to hardcore pounding that makes you want to scream. Be prepared to feel
good. OMG Is the Clean Sheet bonus track actually a remake of the Faith No More
“Epic”? Not a bad remake. This album resonates with a positive air that you can
hear in the lyrics. These guys have come a long way and this album proves it.
Blood Red Throne
Come Death
 Tracks:
1. Slaying the Lamb 2.
Deranged Assassin 3.
Rebirth In Blood 4. Gutterual Screams 5.
Taste of God 6.
No New Beginning 7.
Come Death 8.
(78-88) Disincarnated 9.
Another Kill
Genre: Death Metal
This is an excellent 2nd
release for this band. The Norwegians have once again proven that Death is a
Science. All of these tracks have a plethora of hooks in every track. Slaying
the Lamb is an excellent opening track with awesome blast beats and rhythm to
keep you in their grasp until the very end of the album. Rebirth in Blood and
Deranged Assassin have a decidedly Nile feel to them. Guttural Screams has a
nice opening with heavy licks and a new ostinato rhythm that I’ve not heard
before. Overall this album is an awesome album. This is a perfect example of
progression in Death Metal. This album has way more hooks in every song than a
lot of metal that I’ve heard including their first album. 1st album
is worth listening to but this one has topped it, to be expected.
Bring Me The Horizon
Count Your Blessings
 Tracks:
1. Pray for Plagues 2. Tell Slater Not to Wash his Dick 3. For
Stevie’s Eyes Only 4. Alot like Vegas 5. Black and Blue 6.
Slow Dance 7. Liquor & Love Lost 8. (I Used to Make Out With) Medusa
9. Fifteen Fathoms, Counting 10. Off the Heezay
Genre: Grind core Thrash Metal
These guys are early but really
talented. They define Grind core to the bone throughout this album. They hit
you heavy and hard with all the strength they have in their arsenal. However
they did give the listener a little depth into their talents with Fifteen
Fathoms, Counting. A truly masterful work of instrumentals that proves that not
only are these guys knowledgeable in what their fans want but also how to
produce beauty. If you see the interview on Capitalchaos.net you will see that
these boys truly are characters. Just watch out for flying liquids from these
guys you never know what it could be.
Bring Me The Horizon
This is what the edge of
your seat is for
 Tracks:
1. They have no reflections 2. Who Wants Flowers When Your Dead? Nobody 3.
Rawrrr! 4. Traitors Never Play Hangman
This album is very short so I’m
thinking it’s an EP even though they are playing these songs at their shows.
Well this album is much the same as their last album very much a grind core
band. Lots of high pitched rips tearing up the beat reminds me much of their
first album. Who Wants Flowers is a fun song “MOSH PIT!!!!!!”. Rawrrr! Has a
nice female scream in it although it sounded practiced kinda like a horror flick
just more thrashy. Traitors Never Play Hangman has lots of ostinato.
City Sleeps
Not an Angel
 Tracks:
1. Hotel 2. Prototype 3. Just Another Day 4. Walkers Ridge 5. Ordinary High
6. I Can’t Make You Love Me 7. Andrea 8. Bones 9. Be a Man 10. Sleep With
Me 11. Check Out
Genre: Progressive Rock
This
is an excellent album. I would expect to hear Prototype and Bones on 106.5
soon. This music you can listen to over and over it’s the kind of music that
you can either party to or dance to or drive to. It’s not depressing or mind
altering it’s just good music that is easy to listen to. The kind of music that
you would tap your fingers to. My favorite tracks are Prototype, I Can’t Make
You Love Me, Bones, and Sleep With Me. Sleep with Me is a very romantic. The
whole album is chalk full of hooks and good riffs. The vocals are sung and not
screamed or growled as I said easy to listen to.
Darkest Hour
Deliver Us
 Tracks:
1.Doomsayer(The Beginning of the End) 2.Sanctuary 3.Demons 4.An Ethereal Drain
5.A Paradox with Flies-The Light 6.The Light At The Edge Of The World 7. Stand
and Receive Your Judgement 8.Tunguska 9.Fire In The Skies 10.Full Imperial
Collapse 11.Deliver Us.
Genre: Thrash Death Metal
This is a great album to get your
fill of distortion and thrash, very common though. Nice guitar riffs throughout
this album the distortion that they’ve used in all of these songs adds to the
ambiance of this album. Doomsayer has a gifted guitar riff in the beginning then
it starts to beat you senseless. Light at the edge of this world is a beautiful
instrumental that really emphasizes the groups abilities. Tunguska has a
melodic hardcore throughout that is relentless. This group has been working
long and hard to get this far and it shows. This album really shows their
dedication to their craft and is definitely worth listening to over and over.
Denial Fiend
They Rise
 Tracks:
1.They Rise 2. Return To The Tombs Of The Cursed Blind Dead 3. Flesheater 4.
Cover Me In Blood 5. Ripped Inside Out 6. L.O.D. 7. Son Of The Creature From
The Black Lagoon 8. Frankenstein Conquers The World 9. Let The Blood Flow 10.
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead things 11. The Day Of The Undead
Genre: Horror Metal
These guys sound a lot like
Slayer just not as hard hitting. Pretty good album Nice rhythm and speed. Not
a lot of Growling. Overall a good sounding album I think these guys will become
a little more well known in the future. Not as big as Slayer because no one can
replace Slayer but a good band none the less. Cover Me In Blood has a very
catchy rhythm that makes you want to bang your head. Ripped inside out has a
decent guitar solo at the end. L.O.D. has good lyrics that put you in a horror
flick with a catchy rhythm. All the songs on this album have a good catchy
rhythm that you can bang your head to.
Dethklok
The Dethalbum
 Tracks:
1. Murmaider 2. Go Into the Water 3. Awaken 4. Bloodrocuted 5. Go Forth and
Die 6. Fansong 7. Better Metal Snake 8. The Lost Vikings 9. Thunderhorse
10. Briefcase full of Guts 11. Birthday Dethday 12. Hatredcopter 13.
Castratikron 14. Face Fisted 15. Dethharmonic
Genre: Cartoon Metal
They
are not using the behemoth type of voice. This is more like talking in a
growling type of voice. Lots of hooks on this album. The lyrics are vivid and
capture the imagination. Overall a pretty good album. Reminds me a lot of Amon
Amarth This album has sold over 34,000 copies and has gotten a lot of hype
because of the cartoon metal, that I hear is phenomenal. However, since I
haven’t seen it I can only judge this album by what I hear. I think it’s a
pretty good album to have and it’s easy to listen too. Also, from what I hear
Brandon and Mike are 2 of the fastest guitar players in the world there is no
demonstration of their greatness on this album and that is a little
disappointing. Maybe Brandon’s comedy on the cartoon makes up for that.
Devil Wears Prada
Plagues
 Tracks:
1. Goats On A Boat 2. Number III Never Forget 3. HTML Rulez Dood 4. Hey John,
What’s Your Name Again? 5. Don’t Dink And Drance 6. You Can’t Spell “Crap”
Without “C” 7. This Song Is Called 8. Reptar, King Of The Ozone 9. The
Scorpion Deathlock 10. Nickels Is Money Too.
Genre: Screamo Christian Metal
Right off the bat this album
kicks you in the ass with blast beats and heavy riffs tinged with keyboards and
the screaming vocals. Hard to believe they are actually singing about how great
God is. Yep this is a Christian Band. Not what you would think huh. Hey John,
What’s Your Name Again? Is a hard hitting song with clean vocals and heavy
distortion. Don’t Dink and Drance has some pretty cool riffs mixed in and a
nice beat, they used the keyboards a little more heavily in this as well. One
of my favorites of this album is This Song Is Called, it throws in some piano
riffs to soften things up a bit with being every bit as hard in the other parts
of the song as any other in this album.
Dr. Dog
We All Belong
 Tracks:
Not even worth mentioning.
Genre: Some throw back from the seventies Partridge Family Beatles sound alike
Could someone tell these guys that it’s not the seventies anymore and they need
to come up with something original. Oh wait they are being original there are
no seventies throwback bands. The seventies are the seventies lets leave them
there. Anyway, back to the review If you like The Beatles then The Girl and
Alaska are pretty good songs. Ok this album is a little nostalgic it reminds me
of the days of smoking pot with incense burning after dropping a hit of acid.
Envy on the Coast
Lucy Gray
 Tracks:
1. sugar skulls 2. artist and repertoire 3. the gift of paralysis
4. tell them that she’s not scared 5. (x)amount of truth 6. vultures
7. mirrors 8. if god smokes cheap cigars 9. starving your friends
10. lapse 11. …because all suffering is sweet to me 12. I’m
breathing…are you breathing too?
Genre: Almost Emo
Not bad. Almost Incubusish.
Pretty good sounding, Nice beat. Good instrumentals as well as vocals. You can
tell these guys are young but they are talented and know how to produce music.
Definitely radio worthy. Don’t be surprised if you hear them on KWOD 106 in the
near future. The girls will really like this album. The last two songs are
romantic, slow, and I was ready to fall asleep.
Ephel Duath
Pain Remixes The Known
 Tracks:
a bunch of holes. Not kidding each song is hole 1, hole 2 and so forth up to 9
Genre: I have no clue. It’s kinda a death screamo raver dance music. Whatever
that may be called.
This
is weird even scary, I want my mommy. There is no way to describe this music
really. It is a genre all it’s own. It’s nothing like death or screamo or
alternative. It’s kinda like a raver dance music with more sinister lyrics and
serious minor key tonality than any I’ve heard before. I can envision this kind
of music being used in an underground drug infested german dance club. Weird.
Produced in Italy, this is an electronic deconstruction of the 2005 album Pain
Necessary To Know.
Evile
Enter The Grave
 Tracks: 1.
Enter the Grave 2. Thrasher 3. First Blood 4. Man Against Machine 5. Burned
Alive 6. Killer From The Deep 7. We Who Are About To Die 8. Schizophrenia
9. Bathe In Blood 10. Armoured assault
Genre: Hardcore Thrash metal
If
you like Metallica then you will definitely like these guys. This group is
almost a Metallica tribute band the style and sound of the music is much the
same but the vocals are a little different, the lyrics are also different but
other than that they sound just like metallica. In some of the Songs they have
used a couple of metallica riffs and one or two words from Ride the lightning
and Master of Puppets. Other than that nice hooks and guitar riffs. They meant
to sound like metallica and they did a good job of it.
Maroon 5
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
 Tracks:
1. If I Never See Your Face Again 2. makes Me Wonder 3. Little Of Your Time
4. Wake Up Call 5. Won’t Go Home Without You 6. Nothing Lasts Forever 7.
Can’t Stop 8. Goodnight Goodnight 9. Not Falling Apart 10. Kiwi 11. Better
That We Break 12. Back At Your Door
Genre: Pop Rock
Always a fun band to listen to. This album exemplifies the original Maroon 5
playful groove and disco-ish beats. My favorites are If I Never See Your Face
Again, Makes Me Wonder (Groovy) and Wake Up Call (featured on last months
show). Those may be my favorites but the whole album is just so cool it belongs
in all music libraries.
Municipal Waste
The Art of Partying
 (Earache 2007)
Tracks: 1. Pre-Game, 2. The Art of Partying, 3.
Headbanger Face Rip, 4. Mental Shock, 5. A.D.D. (Attention Defecit
Destroyer), 6. The Inebriator, 7. Lunch Hall Food Brawl, 8. Beer
Pressure, 9. Chemically Altered, 10. Sadistic Magician, 11. Open Your
Mind, 12. Radioactive Force, 13. Septic Detonation, 14. Rigorous
Vengeance, 15. Born to Party.
Genre: Punk Thrash Metal
OK to all you old school thrash punk metal fans this CD is
for you. At first I thought “is this Suicidal Tendencies?” But no,
it isn’t. So piss off your parents, break out your skateboards, and head
to the stairs in your house and get ready to do some bailing. This is the
perfect kind of music for Jackass-style stunts.
Nicole Atkins
Neptune City
 Tracks:
1. Maybe Tonight 2. Together We’re Both Alone 3. The Way It Is 4. cool
Enough 5. War Torn 6. Love Surreal 7. Neptune City 8. Brooklyn’s On Fire!
9. Kill The Headlights 10. Party’s Over
Genre: Folk Pop
How
do I describe this album? Eccentric. It seems like it was big budget to sound
like the old Loretta Lynn or Crystal Gayle style of music. This album includes
a full orchestra as well as the rock guitars and keyboards. I think I would
find my parents enjoying and listening to this music. If I was my parents I’d
probably like it. Oh wait I am becoming like my parents. This albums not that
bad after all.
Pinback
Autumn of the Seraphs
 Tracks:
1. Barnes 2. Good To Sea 3. How We Breathe 4. Walters 5. Subbing For Eden
6. Devil You Know 7. Blue Harvest 8. Torch 9. Bouquet 10. Off by 50
Genre: Alternative
This
is a cute, catchy and cool album. Sounds kinda like The Cure. My favorites for
this album are Good To Sea which has a new unique sound and How We Breathe which
has a very mellow acoustic sound. Overall a good album and I would expect to
hear these guys on 106.5
Silent Fate
The Autumn Machine
 Tracks:
1. Permicide 2. The Autumn Machine 3. Whisper My Sweet Dear 4.Come Undone 5.
Sadly 6. Skin 7. Create 8. Whole 9. A slow Decay 10. Just Like Me 11. Ice
12. Black
Genre: Heavy Metal
This is a really good album.
Really appeals to my feminine side. It’s kinda romantic in a killswitch engage
sort of way. It also has some really nice instrumental demonstrations in the
songs that are easy on the ears. Not your typical sound. Permicide has the mix
of nice instrumentals. Whisper My Sweet Dear has some almost soft and engaging
vocals mixed with some volatile screams at the same time hitting heavily on the
distortion most of the time except on the guitar solo which is particularly
Thrashy. Come Undone is a remake of Duran Duran and they did a pretty good job
of it. It’s a little more artsy than it’s original, it also has more distortion
in all aspects of the song. Sometimes the vocals seem a little weak for this
song but overall they pulled it off well.
Skullgrid
Behold...The Arctopus
 Tracks:
1. Skullgrid 2. Canada 3. Of cursed Womb 4. You Are Number Six 5. Some Mist
6. Scepters 7. Transient Exuberance.
Genre: Instrumental Thrash
This
is a cool album. Very rarely do you ever come across an instrumental band.
Usually always has vocals but not this one. If this had vocals it would detract
from the musical abilities to perform this style of music. At first it has the
almost chaotic in a rhythmic sort of way as Psyopus. Then they add in the jazzy
thrash mixed with solos done at a max. This album commands your attention there
is no way to talk over this or ignore it. Of Cursed Womb, Skullgrid and
Transient Exuberance are my favorites.
Strata
The End Of The World
 Tracks:
1. Night Falls (the weight of it) 2. Hot/Cold 3.The Dotted Line… 4. Cocaine
(we’re all going to hell) 5. Coma Therapy 6. Poughkeepsie, NY 7. Stay Young
8. The Brothers 9. Love Is Life 10. The New National Anthem 11. Natoma Alley
12. Daylight In The City
Genre: Alternative
OK
this was an unexpected album. Judging by the cover I thought it was going to be
a silly or even stupid album but it turned out to be quite serious and good. On
this Album this group has a song about everything from politics and religion to
love. The music turned out to be quite good. Very alternative though even
trendy in no way is this a thrasher album. My favorite tracks are The Dotted
Line, Cocaine, Coma Therapy and The New National Anthem. This music is U2ish,
mixed with a dose of the Cure and a piece of an Incubus. Pretty cool.
The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
Danza II:The Electric Boogaloo
 Tracks:
1. T.R.O.U.B.L.E 2. You Gonna Buy The Beers Or The Whole Damn Bar 3. I Don’t
Mean To Impose, But I Am The Ocean 4. Go Greyhound 5. Top English 6. The
Electric Boogaloo 7. Crunchy Black Did Me In At Midnight Madness 8. Mad Max
Beyond Superdome. 9. Carroll 14 Wossman 7 10. Nobody Eats BBQ Two Days In A
Row 11. Shot Of Whiskey 12. Rollin’ And Tumblin’ On Satan’s Rotisserie 13.
The Louisiana Dive Bar Massacre
Genre: Hardcore Thrash Metal
Besides the opening of all songs are of skits depicted in a bar. It’s like
hearing the texas chainsaw massacre on CD. The lyrics are insightful and even
whimsical. The thrash beat is hardcore get in the pits and do your thang.
Other people better be watchin out cuz they might get hurt. The hooks aren’t
really hooks they are just hard thrummings on the base with a guitar combo.
The guitar work is almost nonexistent really not much done there. This album
sounds so much like Animosity or beneath the massacre, however, there are some
unique aspects to this album. Overall I would say that it’s not a bad album but
it’s not the best either.
Twin Method
The Volume of Self
 Tracks:
1. ….And Yet Inside I’m Screaming 2. Flawless 3. Pedegree 4. Defeated 5.
Stare Through Me 6. Twelve 7. The Abrasive 8. All Becomes Clear 9. Reality
Check 10. Fake 11. Lost Signal 12. I live, I smile, I Obey
Genre: Heavy Metal
I
got to meet these guys at Family Values. Pretty Cool bunch of Brits and it
shows in the music they produced for this album. Kindof a mix of Korn and Sonic
Youth. This is a really cool album lots of digital keyboard mixed in. There
are quite a few really cool songs on this album …And Yet Inside I’m Screaming is
a really cool song. Defeated is really cool combines both hard and brutal with
soft and caressing. This is a brutal album but not so brutal that it can’t be
heard on the radio. Overall excellent job.
Vivesect
Six Points Of Direction
 Tracks:
1.Lost 2.Six Points of Direction 3.Poisoned Tears 4.Shedding Wings 5.The
Mourning… 6.The Mourning After 7.The Mourning End. 8. Condemned 9.
Construction of Power 10. Roses Fade Away 11. Another Passing Moment
Genre: Thrash Death Metal
This is a good album. Right off
the bat with Lost starts a pounding to create the mosh pit. Six points of
Direction and Poisoned Tears has a decidedly lamb of God feel to them.
Condemned has a lot of really good hooks. Shedding Wings has some really good
guitar riffs and an awesome beat (one of my favorites on this album) and
Construction of Power has some really nice screams and growls. Overall a really
good album to have this looks like their first album but they are gaining a lot
of popularity with it. They did a good job and I look forward to their next
album. With the progression that they show in this album I’m sure the next
album will be just as good.
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