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Undersmile - Anhedonia



7.3 | 27 votes |
Release date: 1 April 2015
Style: Doom metal, Sludge metal

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Staff review by
Auntie Sahar
Rating:
9.0
When considering the use of female vocals in metal, the thing I tend to notice is that many typically envision them as needing to be bright, airy, and high pitched... that is, giving off a more "pretty" tone than is typically found from vocals in the genre. Enter an alternative to this rather dull idea in the form of the UK's Undersmile, a doom foursome fronted by two ladies, who, while keeping things beautiful, also prefer to take their sound in a more crushing, perhaps bleaker direction.

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published 30.04.2015 | Comments (10)

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20.02.2015 - 15:52
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
April fooools!
=]
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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01.04.2015 - 00:05
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Written by Karlabos on 20.02.2015 at 15:52

April fooools!
=]

Is it really? Because I swear, if it is, I'm going to kill whoever thought this would be a funny joke
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I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

~ II. VII
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01.04.2015 - 00:37
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Written by Auntie Sahar on 01.04.2015 at 00:05

Written by Karlabos on 20.02.2015 at 15:52

April fooools!
=]

Is it really? Because I swear, if it is, I'm going to kill whoever thought this would be a funny joke

Actually I don't think it is, since this is on their bandcamp page. Unless of course, Undersmile themselves made the prank.
But hey, good idea. I'm gonna add some random albums here and there today
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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01.04.2015 - 01:32
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Written by Karlabos on 01.04.2015 at 00:37

Actually I don't think it is, since this is on their bandcamp page. Unless of course, Undersmile themselves made the prank.
But hey, good idea. I'm gonna add some random albums here and there today

Yeah, pretty sure it's real, they've been posting news about it on their FB, along with an official review. Weeee, now I can snag this at Roadburn
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I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

~ II. VII
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29.04.2015 - 22:39
Rating: 9
PocketMetal

Very close to being a 10 but I settle for a 9.
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12.05.2015 - 19:31
Zap
Guest
My kind of doom metal (whatever that means.)
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29.05.2015 - 13:41
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Doom AOTY for me at the moment
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I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

~ II. VII
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29.05.2015 - 13:46
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
After multiple listenings I find it to be okay to good but can't touch upon Narwhal.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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13.07.2015 - 18:09
Rating: 9
Daggon
Underpaid M.D.
Finally some more doom, don't know if it's just me or there's not many Doom metal releases this year.
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"Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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02.09.2015 - 16:41
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Not sure why, but I really expected to like this one a bit more than I do. I still think it's decent, but it's a little overextended I think. Doesn't really justify its length as there's not a great deal to differentiate between the tracks. Acoustic strumming, to mournful cello, to heavy drone sludge (drudge) and sort of back again. A bit formulaic, and the vocals feel less impressive this time around. I think part of the problem is that I've been listening to a lot of SubRosa recently, which really highlights how big the gulf can be between a good band and a great one.
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02.09.2015 - 19:06
Lit.
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I never did see the big deal with this band. Both albums sound like second-rate Bloody Panda without the aura of mystery and madness behind them.
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21.05.2016 - 15:39
LuciferOfGayness
Account deleted
This is wonderful. Took me some time and listens but enjoing it even more now.
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