Genre: Death Metal
Year Released: 2008
Label: Peaceville Records
Tracklisting/ Song Length:
1. At The Behest Of Their Death (3:40)
2. Process Of Disillumination (3:09)
3. Slaughtering The Will To Live (3:37)
4. Mock The Cross (4:02)
5. Treasonous (4:13)
6. Iesous (3:33)
7. Drink From The Cup Of Heresy (3:36)
8. Devouring The Feeble (3:11)
9. Earthrot (3:19)
10. Hades Rising (5:05)
11. Wretched Human Mirror (4:12)
Review:
Nothing new to see here folks. This is death metal, plain and simple. Maybe a little too plain for my tastes. Bloodbath is a band with great potential, they just need to start writing more original songs and play something more focused on what they're aiming for "Old School Death Metal". This sounds way to modern for what they're trying to portray for us metalheads. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad album or band by any means, they're just not great and fairly unoriginal.
The guitars here are pretty good. A few awesome solos (especially the one in Slaughtering The Will To Live). A few pretty cool riffs and all that are sprinkled throughout, but their missing something. They are too unoriginal and tongue in cheek for their own goods at times. Most of the riffs are very unoriginal and sound basically like mild variations of the same (decent) riff over and over again, played at different paces. They need to changes things up a bit here.
The drums really stand out in this album. They're skillfully played, they have some good rhythm ideas and they can get very technical at times (while staying along with the rather simple Bass and Guitar riffs). Some of the fills and rolls that the drummer pulls off are remarkable to say the least. But the same problem with the rest of the band persists here as well! A lot of the beats are re-used, a lot of the same fills are re-used on different songs and it just gets a bit on the repetitive side for me to be honest. Repetitive but very well played, not bad.
The bass isn't really too noticeable here, it's got a few standout riffs in a few songs but for the most part it's drowned out in the guitar riffs an tremolo picking. Too bad because what you are able to hear sounds really cool.
The vocals are GREAT! This is the dude from Opeth on the vocals here and I personally think he does a great job on Opeth and he gets the job done here as well! The vocals sound dark, evil and repulsing! he can pull off some great sounds and no one can fully copy his sound, he has a very unusual vocal approach.
Overall, this is a very decent band, unoriginal to the max and a little too tongue in cheek for my tastes but I can't really complain, it's good for a few listens but it's not something that should really stand out over some of the other albums released that year.
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Final Rating:
3/5
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