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| Sounds cool. gonna check it out later |
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| Yes I agree, I wasn't blown away by this album, but it was all right |
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| Very good review baz, i totally agree. a very solid album, nothing ground breaking but is a perfect example of modern melodic death metal done right. |
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| Nice review Baz, totally agree that this album isn't ground breaking but still a solid album by a kick ass band. |
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 Kamil - 22.10.2009 at 18:49
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| New album isn't so good as Virus, but in the other hand it's much more regular. |
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It's a good album!  |
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| I need to get this album. |
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Written by Vitriolic Hate on 22.10.2009 at 20:20
It's killer album!!!
A Killer indeed:devil: |
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| Yow, I agrees. Peter rules, I'm glad he took some time off with Pain, cause it was about time to hear his harsher side again. Solar Empire is |
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| Not bad, but not great... so far only "Hang Him High" completely caught my attention |
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| Yeah been listening to the album for a few weeks and then sort of stopped. Pretty mundane and few memorable moments. "Solar Empire" is pretty good but there so little variety within each song that my mind wanders off in all directions when I listen to it. A staggeringly average 6/10 |
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Aeox - 23.10.2009 at 12:32
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Written by Ag Fox on 23.10.2009 at 00:34
Not bad, but not great... so far only "Hang Him High" completely caught my attention
I completely agree with you, "Solar Empire" and "Hang Him High" are quite good - the rest of the album defintely sounds like Hypocrisy and it has some 'moments', but not their best effort. 5.5/10 |
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| It may not have instant favourites on here but it's probably their most solid outing to date imho, possibly their most up tempo also. Not much in the line of filler tracks & Taste The Extreme Divine is a great track..... the intro of that one sounds like a little hat tip in the direction of Peace sells era Megadeth but that may be just me. 8.5/10 |
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Big E - 23.10.2009 at 19:03
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| Based on the artwork and album title, I was expecting something a little heavier, but melody is always good. Solid release, although not my favorite. |
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JÄY - 23.10.2009 at 21:25
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Based on the artwork and album title, I was expecting something a little heavier
I agree...but was pleasantly surprised...gotta have my melody |
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"...perhaps however at the expense of any atmosphere or feeling the album may have conjured."
I disagree, the album is laden with atmosphere from start to finish.
I'm also going to disagree with many people who've already commented by saying this is better than Virus. At first I thought it sounded quite average but after more plays I've come to realise that apart from 1 song, 'Alive', this is an extremely solid and diverse album.
The combination of 'Solar Empire' followed by 'Weed Out the Weak' and then 'No Tomorrow' is absolute genius. A trio of songs which begins with a classic Hypocrisy sing along (Solar... Empire... etc.), then a homage to the greats of the early 90's and finally a track which could have easily been pulled off an album from the Abducted-Into the Abyss era (my favourite). That song wouldn't have gone amiss on TFC or the self-titled, in my opinion.
The only song I don't find particularly enjoyable is 'Alive' which I find to be quite average. They should have had 'The Sinner' in its place and had 'Alive' as the bonus. |
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| Pretty good album, I really enjoy track 6- Global Domination |
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| Cant wait to get my hands on a copy! cant wait to see em live on nov 8!!!! |
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It's A Good Album But Not As Much As The Old Ones.
And I Think It's Boring To Talk Always About Aliens.....I Mean Change The Subject A little Bit
As For Music And Composing Its Fucking Awesome!!!
If We take "Global Domination" As An example we find that the music is incredible, But the Lyrics are not matched with it in the right way...... |
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| A decent enough album, solid songs, but the memorability factor is zero. |
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Sorry, gotta differ. This album is crap that has nothing to do with death metal:
Fast melodic riff, then a doubletime stomp, then a breakdown with a Gothenburg riff, than nu-hardcore style rant and blast; repeat in random order. Oh, and I forgot the semi-synthesized "digital whisper" vocals.
It sounds like a punk hardcore band trying to be metal.
It's metalcore. Don't let the melodic death metal riffs fool you: nothing on this album is as structured or complex as real death metal. It's verse/chorus with random riffs thrown in, like a more intense version of Jawbreaker.
Holy shinola this album is bad. Do yourself a favor: stop after "Inferior Devotees." |
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JÄY - 30.10.2009 at 18:39
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| @Conservationist: It seems that you live in some parallel universe where metalcore means something completly different than here in our version of space-time. |
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Written by Conservationist on 29.10.2009 at 09:40
Sorry, gotta differ. This album is crap that has nothing to do with death metal:
Fast melodic riff, then a doubletime stomp, then a breakdown with a Gothenburg riff, than nu-hardcore style rant and blast; repeat in random order. Oh, and I forgot the semi-synthesized "digital whisper" vocals.
It sounds like a punk hardcore band trying to be metal.
It's metalcore. Don't let the melodic death metal riffs fool you: nothing on this album is as structured or complex as real death metal. It's verse/chorus with random riffs thrown in, like a more intense version of Jawbreaker.
Holy shinola this album is bad. Do yourself a favor: stop after "Inferior Devotees."
I'm trying to figure out if you're a real person or a bot right now...So, your greater point is that death metal/melodeath has NO fast melodic riffs, right...And if it has, it's punk hardcore!??The word "melodic" in "melodeic death" is there just to fool the neighbour's kids, right...Wtf...That's some understanding about music you have...But the most shocking thing is that you actually sound like you believe yourself...
No really, I was amazed when I saw Devildriver tagged as Alternative death metal in MS today, but you're simply off the charts with that statement of yours...You made my day...  |
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Written by Conservationist on 29.10.2009 at 09:40
Sorry, gotta differ. This album is crap that has nothing to do with death metal:
Fast melodic riff, then a doubletime stomp, then a breakdown with a Gothenburg riff, than nu-hardcore style rant and blast; repeat in random order. Oh, and I forgot the semi-synthesized "digital whisper" vocals.
It sounds like a punk hardcore band trying to be metal.
It's metalcore. Don't let the melodic death metal riffs fool you: nothing on this album is as structured or complex as real death metal. It's verse/chorus with random riffs thrown in, like a more intense version of Jawbreaker.
Holy shinola this album is bad. Do yourself a favor: stop after "Inferior Devotees."
LMAO metalcore!!! dude you must be high |
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Written by Conservationist on 29.10.2009 at 09:40
Sorry, gotta differ. This album is crap that has nothing to do with death metal:
Fast melodic riff, then a doubletime stomp, then a breakdown with a Gothenburg riff, than nu-hardcore style rant and blast; repeat in random order. Oh, and I forgot the semi-synthesized "digital whisper" vocals.
It sounds like a punk hardcore band trying to be metal.
It's metalcore. Don't let the melodic death metal riffs fool you: nothing on this album is as structured or complex as real death metal. It's verse/chorus with random riffs thrown in, like a more intense version of Jawbreaker.
Holy shinola this album is bad. Do yourself a favor: stop after "Inferior Devotees."
This guy is actually a reviewer from some website, and he writes like he knows what he is talking about, that what makes it so funny..LOL..metalcore dude?...seriously?..
i think this album is very enjoyable, it's simple and complex at the same time, that's the peter's way:), some of you are tired of the alien inspired lyrics, but i think is a must have in the concept that is Hypocrisy, peter is fascinated by aliens, and i think he enjoys a lot to write about it, it's part of what hypocrisy is, it's like we ask Nile not to write lyrics about Egyptian themes. the songs are not all about aliens, they mainly focus in religion.
for example: "There is a new religion coming around the bend
And it's called fuck you" how cool is this?...peter rocks:)
my favorite songs are Global Domination and Weed out The Weak  |
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Conservationist is a fucking geek, just ignore him so he wont retort to your comments.
Good album, as always I find with Hypocrisy is that there is a handful of really awesome songs and filler. I would say 7.5 |
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| Hypocrisy used to be my favourite band back in the years (you can even see how much I suck their dick in the thread I started about them), but after passing more than one year without listening to them I downloaded this album and found it extremely unispired, with bad lyrics, boring, middle-of-the-road.... |
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| Everything he doesn't like is metalcore. Britney Spears, Elton John, Michael Moore, and green beans are also metalcore, in case you guys didn't know. |
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| The more i listen to it, the more i like it...:banger: |
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Valley Of The Damn, No Tomorrow and Solar Empire are my favorites so far, But The Whole album is Amazing, probably a future classic  . BTW wtf with Conservationist? the dude said it sould like, hardcore and metalcore?... hahahah this guy just make my day. |
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| Man this albums is great.I'am not a big fan of Hypocrisy but this album is verry good.I've noticed that they are always changing their style,not whole of it but this album is more melodic and it has thrash elements.Definitley 9 for me. |
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| Metal core hm....no.Melodic death metal definitely. |
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Written by Southern Wind on 01.11.2009 at 05:46
Hypocrisy used to be my favourite band back in the years (you can even see how much I suck their dick in the thread I started about them), but after passing more than one year without listening to them I downloaded this album and found it extremely unispired, with bad lyrics, boring, middle-of-the-road....
Yes, exactly my thoughts as well regarding the new album. A least the last album had a few tracks that I feel were of high quality, but this time around, not so much. I miss the innovation. |
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Baz practically write reviews about every popular album of 2009. All Shall Fall, Days of Greys, From Afar, Necropolis, Evangelion... now this one. Nice dude 
And this one is like you said, nothing ground-breaking, nothing horrible. A nice melodeath album |
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Syk - 08.01.2010 at 16:59
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| Hypocrisy is the best band in the world |
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Written by Mr.Wilson on 31.10.2009 at 17:34
This guy is actually a reviewer from some website, and he writes like he knows what he is talking about, that what makes it so funny..LOL..metalcore dude?...seriously?..
i think this album is very enjoyable, it's simple and complex at the same time, that's the peter's way:), some of you are tired of the alien inspired lyrics, but i think is a must have in the concept that is Hypocrisy, peter is fascinated by aliens, and i think he enjoys a lot to write about it, it's part of what hypocrisy is, it's like we ask Nile not to write lyrics about Egyptian themes. the songs are not all about aliens, they mainly focus in religion.
for example: "There is a new religion coming around the bend
And it's called fuck you" how cool is this?...peter rocks:)
my favorite songs are Global Domination and Weed out The Weak
Love those lyrics and I love those songs too! Just gotta add Hang Him High to that list and those are my favorites. |
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| I found that 'Alive' was one of the better tracks, but i also have a habit of appreciating the less popular songs. either way, this is a solid album and i honestly would have to rate it among my favorite releases from Hypocrisy. |
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