Megadeth - Endgame review

Year : 2009
Genre : Thrash Metal
Label : Roadrunner Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.2 / 10

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(K)illuminati connotations aside, - Dave Mustaine is a hobbyist -conspiracy theorist, as far as I know - Megadeth's 2009 LP Endgame is one exceptionally visceral statement, and this latter term of "visceral" seems to me as the most essential one amidst the many that reveal the global character of the disc.

Granted, the ideal-, the optimum form of thrash metal probably should be visceral as a thr(e)(a)shold minimum, but, if you are any kind of embracer of the genre, then you know that this is not always the case. Many is the number of the beast, -TUK! - as is the number of things that invite a thrash album to become its own parody from time to time, up to the point on which from this unfortunate transformation reigns evident and beyond the state of being preventable, since it has happened already.

Even THIS album, which I consider a pretty stellar delivery from Megadeth, features Dave Mustaine's trademark cabaret thrash metal in its full anti-glory, but the manifestations of said affliction gets assuaged by such a strong subsequent segment, that the cabaret side of things becomes tolerable, hell, even enjoyable (!!) when contrasted by the immensely eminent hooks the package packs a healthy dosage of. Yeah, there are tamer hooks on display, too, but the idea which permeates the release is something that sound to be unique : it simultaneously CRAVES acceptance, and, at the same time, does not give a FUCK if you give it to him.

It's like - Dave Mustaine would be happy to know that you love the disc, and could not care less if you would not. In other words, the disc embraces its deficits, which come to you exclusively throughout SOME points of the songwriting strategy, as the production is flawless in my book, and I'm pretty sure it is flawless in yours, too. Read on to find out more about one of the quintessential Megadeth releases.

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Freezy - Cypher Sessions review

Year : 2012
Genre : Hip Hop
Label : Shoot 4 The Stars / True Talent Never Dies
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

Connecticut based hip hop artist Freezy releases his fourth mixtape, featuring a wide selection out of the recent talent pool your alert host is keen to recommend. This time, Freezy assembled a collection that sounds to exhibit a more laid back and easy going demeanor as its overall tone, targeting and successfully revealing a tastefully realized lounge session you can chill out to - right after the party you have been into has successfully revealed the meaning of it all. (Again.)

Being smooth and EZ does not prevent the mixtape from showing diverse variation, something that is most notable throughout the overall mood and tempo of the individual entries. In fact, flamboyancy seems to be a key agenda : the album features 17 tracks divided along 49 minutes, which is both a perfect AND a sober length for the addressed intention to cover the recent image of Connecticut area hip hop. Read on to find out more about this.

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Testament - Dark Roots of Earth review

Year : 2012
Genre : Thrash Metal with Alternative/Rock nods
Label : Nuclear Blast
Origin : United States
Rating :  8.0 / 10

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With Dark Roots of Earth, America's Testament brings the picture perfect variation of traditional thrash metal that has no trouble tolerating some well positioned nods towards alternative metal and even classic rock flavors, which though suits these structures pretty efficiently.

Orthodoxy, as sole agenda, and decent-, related song structures are important key factors on the spin. Don't expect the re-invention of the wheel, expect instead another exciting ride in a familiar car on a familiar course. Luckily, there is no need to stick to this metaphor all that much, as the overall flow does a decent job of evading road motor sport thrash metal affectations, and brings that old school-, yet timeless thrash sound that the genre looks the most efficient with to this day.  Read on to know more about the character of the latest to date Testament LP.

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God Programmer

GyZ gives you the song : God Programmer. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

recognized incapacity
flatters the promise 
of new potential

god programmer
designer incomprehensible
creations of awe
reflecting the will
knowing does 
bring time to a still

god programmer
the observed is clean 
masked is the observer
escape all questions by mastering
the art of how to be 
nothing and everything

recognized incapacity
flatters the promise 
of new potential

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The Contortionist - Intrinsic review

Year : 2012
Genre : Progressive Djent Metal with a lurking ambient tendency
Label : eOne/Good Fight Music
Origin : United States
Rating : 7.5 / 10 (score evolved from 6.9 on July 29, 2012)

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The Contortionist steps forward with an orthodox progressive metal release, which, for the most part, is the tasteful courting of an image of music that sounds to fall between Dream Theater and Periphery, yet more limited in its scope than their more renowned peers of popular recognition. The disc sounds the most interesting throughout the adventurous technical breaks of instrumental intermissions that it brings to the table, and it is much less capable to offer relevant surprises when witnessed from the angle of Dream Theater song structure administration. A good amount of the affair is dedicated to the abstract (stock) sci-fi feel that is very easy to exploit mercilessly once you are content to rely on a certain set of "safe-sci-fi" chord passages, - TUKK! - and these tame-, in character, almost ambient affectations do no particular beneficial service for the overall experience of this contribution - other than serving out the rudimentary cravings of a lazy taste bud. My intent is not to put you off of the LP, it instead is to inform you that the disc has a combination of quite predictable-, and even pseudo-content - more on that later - and a steady segment of genuine music cultivation, too. Read on to find out more.

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Any Sky

GyZ gives you the song : Any Sky. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

I will find you, an image to pry
I will love you under any sky

any sky

I will seek you
I will find you under any sky
I will find you

and I will love you
under any sky

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Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse review

Year : 1991
Genre : Thrash Metal
Label : Nuclear Blast Records
Origin : Sweden
Rating : 9.1 / 10

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It probably is very easy to overlook the first full length affair of Sweden's Meshuggah, as this 1991 massively thrash contribution can not even be regarded as a spiritual precursor of what the music of said band has evolved to via their later operations that forms the face of metal to this very moment.

General consensus seems to be ultra-tepid and unacceptably deformed regarding the disc, as, despite my valiant efforts, I have failed to find and read a review that seems to reckon the delivery for what it really sounds to be. In other words : the 'fuck is up with you people? If not a single person is willing to rearrange related reality, then allow Yours, Truly to do so armed with an agenda and scientific rigor.

Meshuggah's Contradiction Collapse is doubtless influenced by a particularly good looking/angry image of early Metallica, but you would need to be supremely biased, I think, to fail to notice that this formation of youngsters - the Meshuggah dudes are in their early twenties by the era of the disc - are delivering a pretty much impertinently mature and complete variant of thrash metal which, to THIS very day emerges galaxies more relevant than say, the cartoon thrash metal of the latest to date Megadeth album, let alone the pinball road-motor sport "thrash metal" rhetorics - synonym : antics - of the latest to date Overkill series of facial ticks. Read on to find out more about this release, that packs infinitely more capacity to kick your ass to hell and back than you ever thought it does.

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Model

GyZ gives you the song : Model. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

mimesis beauty queen
I'm the player
she's the game
I suppose
I better recharge her
with the battery recharger

comes with an emotional conductor
wonder if I could be good enough for her

turning her on
tuning her in
to those standards

she's a model
ready to tell
whenever it needs
the battery re-charger
she's a model
ready to meet
the standards of a love
you're about to sell

simulacra
simulacrae
I no longer mind
if you're the best
I ever gonna get

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Packet

GyZ gives you the song : Packet. Listen in HD please.

Lyrics :

I take a look around and
it's never empty empty
it always shows me something
incoming in packets

packets 
information packets

everything you see
is representable 
by 1s and 0s

by 1s and 0s

incoming

I take a look around and
it's never empty empty
it always shows me something
incoming in packets

access granted

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Plastic Willow - Lunar Pulse review

Year : 2012
Genre : Alternative Experimental with Psychedelic tint
Label : Dead Sound Box
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This analysis starts out with a quotation snippet taken from reviewed album's closing sentiments in the booklet.

"Lunar Pulse was created form the idea of life itself, it's meant to mimic life's simplicity. Van Jane Willow, the founder of Plastic Willow, wanted to leave the scene of synthetic voices with his experimental album by combining one take tracks with distorted loops. The aim of this album is to plant the idea that imperfection can still be acceptable, in hopes that one day the seed will grow."

The disc is a fluent-, even radical success when scrutinized from the angles it seeks to offer compliments to. This statement demands clarification, and here it goes : the Lunar Pulse LP seems to be an almost entirely-, uncompromisingly and hilariously depressive release that offers momentary respite only to find perverted pleasure taking it all away a second later. The music is a mixture of abstract-, deliberately and most often threateningly spaced out experimental sonic ornamentics, reigning in the form of toxic radioactive icing on top of clearly identifiable compositional structures that promise no hope for your good mood whatsoever.

The audio data deliberately reeks AND embraces hopelessness and exhibits zero interest in the scant promise of the antitheses of it, - hope is the cheapest commodity anyway - though never falling into the trap of seeking your sympathy for the pain it is under. The album is a status report. If you can relate : bad fucking luck. If not, good-, at least better for you. The Lunar Pulse LP has this rare quality that it remains consequently serious with its radical lyrical themes, reigning content with an image of music that is on the hunt to explore various ways of delicate decomposition, yet never crosses the line of becoming of its own parody courtesy of overtly detailed suffering-history. There are numerous interpretation fields to be found, anyway - more on those later on. Click to familiarize yourself with this contribution.

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