![]() ![]() The melodies the strings play, while leaps and bounds more interesting than most anything the band does, aren't exactly John Williams. Yet if no orchestra had ever been written in, the guitars would at least be permitted to do something more interesting than chug chug chugging like a frat boy's asshole during a tailgate party, so the problem might solve itself.Įven still, I doubt the core (hah!) issue would be fully rectified. So yes, if you took away the strings the album would be unlistenable dross not fit for a toilet because the metal on this thing mostly sucks. ![]() Consequently, most of the actual metal sounds bland at best and core-ish at worst. When Communion rolled around, the band opted to relegate these signature melodies, the most defining characteristic of their sound, almost entirely to the orchestra, which introduced two critical issues: 1) the guitars needed to make room for the orchestra, hence the low tuning to allow the strings to operate in higher frequencies while still staying "metal" and 2) the guitars rarely can do anything interesting because most of the best bits are played by the orchestra. While the prevalence of melody would increase with each successive release, downright sounding like melodic death metal in 1999's wacko DNA Revolution, it had been present since Temple of the Lost Race. For all of their previous albums, Septic Flesh injected copious amounts of decidedly Greek-sounding melancholic melody into their guitar riffs. Now it's worth noting that I doubt Septicflesh set out to record a deathcore album rather, it's that the album accidentally approximated this genre due to the concessions made to their core sound in order to incorporate an orchestra.Īnd what of that major selling point, namely the entire City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra? They simultaneously comprise the album's least grating feature while also being, from what I can tell, the main reason this album sucks so much. They are LOListen to We, The Gods and the second half of Persepolis for some of the greatest offenders, but you'll be hard pressed to find a song that doesn't have all three of these featured somewhere. ![]() Something that will strike you immediately is that the guitars are tuned somewhere between 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Unfortunately, the pointless name change is the least cringeworthy part of their post-reunification maiden voyage, Communion. ![]() Off the heels of their most polished and accessible album to date, Sumerian Daemons, and following a four year hiatus, Septic Flesh rebranded under the moniker Septicflesh and started releasing music again. ![]()
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