Six Feet Under will be unleashing their twelfth studio album, Torment, on February 24th via Metal Blade, and it’s going to be something special. Continue reading
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Six Feet Under Offer Samples Of New Songs Online
Long-running death metallers Six Feet Under have spent most of 2016 preparing a new release, as yet untitled and due out via Metal Blade Records this spring. Frontman Chris Barnes has shared a few teases of some new tracks via his Instagram account. You can hear them below: Continue reading
Caricature Drops Music Video – Man Of Science, Unborn EP Out Now
Progressive Metallers Carciature have released the first music video from their brand new EP Unborn, released on December 9th. You can watch the video for ‘Man Of Science’ below:Continue reading
Caricature – Unborn
Progressive metal band Caricature are back with yet another release, this time the surprising Unborn EP. It’s tough to qualify anything surprising from this outfit and its leader Joseph Spiller, since their last release Stampede was a one track EP that was a 27 minute long song about Spiller’s cat, Parmesan. That track is epic in length and also musically, and so it begs the question: where do you go from there? Well obviously if you are Caricature you go right back to work write some of the best songs in your career.Continue reading
Coathanger Abortion – Observations of Humanity
Coathanger Abortion, really? That’s a song title Cannibal Corpse would reject for being too stupid, but the five members of said outfit evidently felt it was just the kind of moniker to gain precious brutal scene points. Now if this was just a few kids eager to offend it would be understandable but these chumps have been around for fifteen years! What’s even more shocking is in that time they appear to have barely mastered their instruments, let alone learnt how to pen a half-decent death metal song, for sophomore release Observations of Humanity (Comatose) is one of the worst albums ever recorded.
Inexpertly combining the aggression and violent approach of Cannibal Corpse with the technicality and chunky riffs of Suffocation, yet with absolutely none of the ingenuity, skill and flair those two acts have exhibited for so long, Coathanger Abortion drag the listener through a tortuous fifty-three minute riff-salad of stolen ideas and clumsy execution that’ll have you wondering how something so utterly horrendous could ever be released by a label that wants to be taken seriously. The clear production only serves to highlight how inept proceedings are, with every out-of-time chord-change, sloppy piece of drumming or out of tune bass note standing out like naughty schoolchildren. Most contempt however is reserved for the appalling guttural vocals that sound like a parody of the Cookie Monster.
Many album reviews include hyperbolic statements along the lines of; “this record will give you bruises!” Observations of Humanity is no exception; however the bruises will be on your visage as a result of repeated facepalms, or from pulling a muscle as you frantically reach for the stop button. This is a record that makes the latest offering from Six Feet Under appear an enticing and cerebral prospect.
Hands down, the worst album to be released this year.
2.0/10
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JAMES CONWAY
Album Stream: Six Feet Under – Crypt Of The Devil
Six Feet Under is streaming their newly released via Metal Blade full length Crypt Of The Devil in its entirety here.
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Six Feet Under – Crypt Of The Devil
In the twenty years since Chris Barnes first brought his Six Feet Under project to zombiefied life with the cult classic Haunted (all 6FU releases are Metal Blade) he has seen opinion of his outfit swing from much anticipated to laughing stock with the release of their Graveyard Classics series (particularly Part 2) before clawing back credibility with some decent, if unspectacular Death Metal fare, culminating in the stronger Unborn in 2013.
Since then, though, in true Six Feet Under style, line ups have altered nearly as often as Mr. Barnes has skinned up (well, probably not…), and considering his views on hailing the leaf, it is perhaps not unsurprising that his backing band for studio album number eleven (!) Crypt Of The Devil is comprised of Cannabis Corpse, with guitarist Phil Hall working closely with Barnes on the compositions, and the rest of the band laying down the rhythm tracks.
However, any thoughts that (another) new line up and writing team would be injecting anti-coagulants into the bloodstream of the lumbering cadaver that is 6FU and producing a thinner, quicker, revitalized sanguinity are churlish as it is rather the case of meet the new blood, same as the old blood, as Crypt Of The Devil churns out more serial killer rhetoric over chugging churning Death Metal.
What you get is a set of very listenable, very competent and very safe Death Metal tracks. You’ll nod along, there will be bits that will snap, and some that will bite, but in the main this is a very unobtrusive and, with the exception of ‘Broken Bottle Rape’ (are we really doing this still? Fuck sake, man), inoffensive album. ‘Open Coffin Orgy’, in particular, is catchy and ‘Gruesome’ kicks things off with twisted intent, but beyond that, the rest of the album is comprised of stock chugging and predictable tracks that merge together.
It may come as very little surprise to learn that, while nothing is particularly wrong with Crypt of the Devil, it won’t change your life, nor demand your attention enough to justify picking it up.
6.0/10
STEVE TOVEY
Six Feet Under Releasing Crypt Of The Devil On May 5th
Six Feet Under is streaming “Gruesome,” off of their upcoming full length album Crypt Of The Devil, out May 5, 2015 via Metal Blade Records here.
The new record was recorded at Phil “Landphil” Hall‘s studio in Virginia. Hall tracked rhythm and bass guitar, while his brother, Josh, tracked drums, and guitarist Brandon Ellis tracked the majority of the album’s leads. Barnes took to London Bridge Studio (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains etc.) in his new homebase in Seattle, WA to track vocals and in fact holed himself up in the very same booth where Layne Staley captured his words. Mixing was completed by Rob Caldwell (Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan etc.) in Sarasota, FL and mastering was handled by Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Revocation, Torche, Skeletonwitch etc.) at West West Side in New Windsor, NY.
Stream “Stab” below.
Six Feet Under Bassist Releasing Solo Album
Six Feet Under bassist Jeff Hughell has released his new solo album Chaos Labyrinth, available at jeffhughell.com. Guests on this record include Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Sadus, Death), Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse), Sean Martinez (Rings Of Saturn) on the title track, as well as Matt Sotelo (Decrepit Birth), Ola Englund (Feared, The Haunted) and Kevin Talley (Black Dahlia Murder, Daath).
Feared Releasing New Album Synder on May 25th
Feared, the Swedish death metal outfit led by The Haunted and former Six Feet Under guitarist Ola Englund, will be releasing their fifth album Synder on May 25, 2015. The record will once again feature artwork by Sylvain Lucchina of Razorimages.
The band features Englund, bassist Jocke Skog (ex Clawfinger, Aeckel), drummer Kevin Talley (Suffocation, ex Dying Fetus, ex Black Dahlia Murder) and vocalist Mario Santos Ramos (Demonoid).
Synder track listing:
01: Synder
02: Your Demise
03: Of Iron And Ashes
04: Caligula
05: My Grief, My Sorrow
06: Dygder
07: By Silent Screaming
08: Wolf At The End Of The World
09: My Own Redemption
10: Dying Day
11: War Feeding War
12: The Narcissist
13: Godless Devotion
Stream the official video for their first single, directed by Englund “My Grief, My Sorrow” below.
Feared Announce New Album DetailsRelease Video For “My Grief, My Sorrow”Feared, the Swedish death-metal foursome led…
Posted by Feared on Friday, March 27, 2015
