Kill With Hate - Voices Of Obliteration
There's nothing worse than a band, winning the first impressions, and then dying somewhere in the middle of the whole hearing process. And that is exactly what happened with these death metal ravagers from Hungary. An awesome cover artwork, a great production and a very good first impression on their tracks, something really hard to mess up. Unfortunately those guys fell in a trap a lot of bands fall, nowadays. Repetition. After a while, you get the impression that you are in an endless loop, and that you are listening to the same song over and over again, this is a trap many musicians fall without noticing it, driven by their own enthusiasm. It is something you realize, once you sit back, after you've written your tracks down in scratch, and observe them, like you were the meanest reviewer of all times, trying to find something negative for your own work. This is the part you realize that your songs kind of repeat one another, and I am sure if those dudes had done that, they would have realized that too.
Something that brings out this negative element a lot is this bright production they have. Very good and crystal clear, (not the appropriate type for other bands, but it is whatever their style of death metal needs), allowing everything to be heard. From the xtra muted heavy riffs, to the wild sweep soloing here and there! Everything has a special place in this wide and clear production, and it kind of makes the songs sound alike! I mean, If you take each song individually, and try to focus on stuff, you probably will find interesting parts here and there amongst riffs, or even spot some interesting parts like the ending of the song 'Pray For War', but facts are facts and it feels like, the same breaks, the same interleaves and the same structure in general they used for one song, are the breaks, interleaves and structures that they used for the entire album, apart from that, there are some breaks, like for instance the break they use in the song with title 'Doubt'. It is a technical break based on a really asymmetric chord that really feels like a total stranger in a room, It really felt that it had no place there. Like switching channels or something! I understand what they were trying to pull but at least in my ears it didn't sound so right. But to make it a little bit more precise, this band's negative spot doesn't lie on performance. Cos actually those Hungarian deathsters are excellent players. Skillful and they seem to have complete tolerance of their instruments. They just need to think on their music, as if they were the toughest reviewers, and if they did that, well it appears they didn't do it so well.
"Voices Of Obliteration" is not a bad album though it is a really decent effort from Kill With Hate and if we consider the fact that it is their first full length (though they exist as a band from 2003), we can say that it is a really worthy effort. It is just that compared to other great releases of 2012, and there were many awesome ones out there, it kind of looses ground. Still a really worthy band to check. Really promising and I am sure that in the future their aggression will prevail!
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Something that brings out this negative element a lot is this bright production they have. Very good and crystal clear, (not the appropriate type for other bands, but it is whatever their style of death metal needs), allowing everything to be heard. From the xtra muted heavy riffs, to the wild sweep soloing here and there! Everything has a special place in this wide and clear production, and it kind of makes the songs sound alike! I mean, If you take each song individually, and try to focus on stuff, you probably will find interesting parts here and there amongst riffs, or even spot some interesting parts like the ending of the song 'Pray For War', but facts are facts and it feels like, the same breaks, the same interleaves and the same structure in general they used for one song, are the breaks, interleaves and structures that they used for the entire album, apart from that, there are some breaks, like for instance the break they use in the song with title 'Doubt'. It is a technical break based on a really asymmetric chord that really feels like a total stranger in a room, It really felt that it had no place there. Like switching channels or something! I understand what they were trying to pull but at least in my ears it didn't sound so right. But to make it a little bit more precise, this band's negative spot doesn't lie on performance. Cos actually those Hungarian deathsters are excellent players. Skillful and they seem to have complete tolerance of their instruments. They just need to think on their music, as if they were the toughest reviewers, and if they did that, well it appears they didn't do it so well.
"Voices Of Obliteration" is not a bad album though it is a really decent effort from Kill With Hate and if we consider the fact that it is their first full length (though they exist as a band from 2003), we can say that it is a really worthy effort. It is just that compared to other great releases of 2012, and there were many awesome ones out there, it kind of looses ground. Still a really worthy band to check. Really promising and I am sure that in the future their aggression will prevail!
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1. Revelation (It's Just Murder)
2. Submersion
3. The Beast Within
4. Servant Of God
5. Epistle Of Fire
6. Pray For War
7. Doubt
8. Imprisoned
9. Speech Of The Defendant
10. Internal (cover Extreme Deformity)
2. Submersion
3. The Beast Within
4. Servant Of God
5. Epistle Of Fire
6. Pray For War
7. Doubt
8. Imprisoned
9. Speech Of The Defendant
10. Internal (cover Extreme Deformity)
Label: http://prcmusic.com
Reviewer: twansibon
May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013
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