Reviews (page 5 of 8)
What an awesome album ! If you love old school Pantera and Metallica then you’ll love Sepultura. Every single song took me to a different region in Riff City. The vocals seem a bit cliche and forced but I can’t deny the insane instruments.
When I think of a heavy metal album, this is what I think of. The speed and technicality with which this album is played is amazing. The vocals are pretty much in line with you standard metal growl. This will not be for everyone and is not generally what I listen to, but the tightness of the sound is definitely something I can appreciate.
Ik ken de band (ik heb ze een keer eerder gehad ook), ik ken het album niet. Eigenlijk meteen in het begin word ik een beetje verrast dat het zo trash-metal-achtig is. Een wedstrijdje wie kan het snelst. Ik had het trager en lomper verwacht. Maargoed, zo'n verrassing is zeker leuk. Het tragere, lompere werk hebben we al gehad met dat album waar 'Wortels bloederige wortels' op staat. Ik zet dit zelf nooit aan, maar als ik het hier in de lijst een keer krijg vind ik het dan toch wel heel leuk. Die breakdowns af en toe toveren daadwerkelijk een lach op m'n gezicht. Op de één of andere manier vind ik die grappig. Je ziet ze bijna staan, of in het geval van de drummer zitten. Lekker die dubbele bassdrum pedalen als een machinegeweer afvuren terwijl de gitaren zo snel mogelijk aangeslagen worden, zoveel zweet overal op het lichaam dat de tattoos bijna loslaten en uiteraard met de lange haren wapperend in de wind. Ik word hier wel vrolijk van. Een leuk feitje dat ik toevallig paraat heb omdat ik er vorige week nog naar heb gezocht: Max Cavalera (van Sepultura dus) zat ooit in een band genaamd Nailbomb. Die gaven hun eerste liveoptreden op Dynamo Open Air festival in 1995 (tot op heden het grootste meerdaagse openluchtfestival ooit in Nederland) te Eindhoven, waarvan ik uiteraard alleen de verhalen ken via een neef van me. Enkele dagen later gaf de band de pijp aan Maarten en zo bleef dat optreden (inmiddels te bekijken op Youtube) jarenland hun enige live-optreden ooit. Tot ze in 2024 ofzo weer een keer geld nodig hadden natuurlijk. Zo gaat dat. Mand. 5 sterren.
Being thrash metal, the album is very high-tempo and intense. The performances are very technical, and the album feels relentless in its intensity. In terms of instrumentation, the drumming is very demanding technically, and it’s very well done. That being said, the constant double-bass drumming gets a bit old after a while. The guitar parts are great, pushing the intensity, while also sounding great. The vocals I didn’t like much; Max Calavera’s growl-ish harsh vocals can be a bit much. Lyrically, it doesn’t get too complex, but the topics are very grim. The “Subtraction” and “Altered State” combination back to back was for me the best moment of the album; I liked the bass solo in “Subtraction”, and the tribal drums in “Altered State” were interesting too. I felt like here they varied more their sound. While I can see its merits, particularly technically, I can’t say I liked it as an album. I might revisit a couple of songs if I’m really in the mood for some heavy thrash metal, but not much more. Nice having a Brazilian band here. And I hated the cover.
Surprisingly middle-of-the-road.
Fucking awful. I wouldn't listen to this again unless paid a very large sum of money!!!!
The economy, precision and race car gear shifts merit applause, yet no single riff called out past the tropes, which do not entice me, the monotonously clean distortion, the growls, the absurd theatrical seriousness, the made-mud-in-my-trousers rhythms. “Roots” maybe shows they were getting bored of this prescribed palette, thankfully. It is a genre that invites the listener to improvise lyrics - “stay off the llama farm!” - which is jolly.
Uuuuurrrrggghhhh, Death Metal!! I mean: ugh, death metal (eye roll)
Ok for metal I guess.
Couldn’t get past the 3rd song
This feels like a well made version of something I really don’t like so I’ll be nice and give it a 2. This music does less than nothing for me.
Insert “It’s just noise” dad quote here. This is fine if you enjoy being shouted at, but it just stresses me out.
It is time to THRASH, my dudes. This album is a fantastic assault on the senses, with heavy doses of technical musicianship holding it up - this level of growl is not usually my jam, however this was kind of brilliant.
I didn't hate it, but I find straight thrash/death type stuff kinda boring.
Obviously the vocals are gonna be abrasive, as I feel like there's no metal singers who have soft fairy voices of something. But the effects and atmosphere are really good, so are the instrumentals. I didn’t really even mind the vocals too much, the lyrics can be quite bad, but there could be some sort of double irony. Favourite songs: arise, dead embryonic cells, desperate cry, subtraction, altered state, under siege (regnum irae), orgasmatron. Overall around 7/10
Finally, some fucking metal!
Favorite track: Arise. Overall score: 6.9/10
When it comes to vocals, you need to have either good lyrics or a good voice. My problem with metal is they often have neither and this album is no different. The music is fine, even good at times, but feels generic for the genre. I struggle to see the value in listening to this album over any other metal album.
I don’t know? This music just seems dumb. I never registered with my brain cells.
Ugh! Couldn't stand it and listened to an album from a few days ago. Dire Straits!
Can’t say that I fully get it but go off king.
I prefer my metal to have some more melody than this
Brutal.
Some people will say this is just noise, and those people are idiots. While not something I would typically listen to, this is an interesting varied album. I would listen to this again. My head was abobbin.
About halfway through this, I realized that the singer kind of sounded like Cookie Monster. Helped me get through it.
I would call this album pretty kickass, but not great.
No need for two Sepultura albums on this list.
For Jim and I
I was tempted to write a one word review "Arse." But, I want to add that this would be good with actual vocals. Every vocal melody is exactly the same.
La verdad es que me gusta más Roots, pero este no estuvo mal.
Nah, I'm good
Max back at it. Glad they re-recorded these albums. I stand with Sepultura is Max and Igor. The classic albums are just so heavy, you can feel what’s about to come. My neck hurts…..
I liked Roots better, but this was still good.
I have never listened to this before. The cover art on this album is a little off-putting. I like some heavy metal but am not really into thrash or death metal. That being said, there are some bright spots here. "Altered State" and "Substraction" are favorites. Some of the others, not so much.
A bit too angry for my taste, but the playing is good.
The incoherent roaring style of heavy metal and all the songs sound more or less the same.
There's some good stuff in the lyrics about the prison population, violence, white collar criminality, apartheid, that kinda thing, it's just that it's also in there with, and I am not kidding, "I didn't ask to be born", which just absolutely undercuts it all with the most teenagery wambulance shit. Realistically, I was never gonna like it, too noisy for me, but I'll stick to System of a Down. The album art is pretty sick tho.
It's fascinating to hear the influences from other bands who were releasing albums at the same time as this dropped. I can hear the odd Metallica guitar sound from their late 80s material, also some similarities with Human, Death's progressive death metal opus. Although I feel that Roots is a slightly better album, and to my regret, I only awarded that album 4 stars, this is getting 5 stars. I hope this partly makes up for just about my only rating-regret so far.
Sadly I'm too much of a weenie to really enjoy heavy metal. The instrumentals were good I think? Vocalist guy please drink some water that growling can't be good for your throat.
Instrumentation was actually pretty good, but it seems I'll never get used to the singing style of death metal. More a review for the entire genre than this album in particular, as I think these Brazilian fellas are far from being bad musicians. Will never understand how this music is so (relatively) popular. Made it to song 5.
Meta
Awful noise
As far as heavy metal goes, definitely one of the best ones I've hears
Sepultura seemed to be greatly influenced by Master of Puppets, except Metallica and Master of Puppets write better songs. I found Desperate Cry and Orgasmatron to be the two most interesting songs on here and one of those songs wasn't written by the band. This can all sound very similar after a while and the songs can blend together. It definitely "rocks" but I don't know if I am able to notice the diversity of the sound this album is supposed to display.
Totally new band for me I believe, although there’s a chance I have heard a song or two somewhere.. this was a great sound, some nice Metallica sounds but still their own voice with it. Great production, metal is sometimes a bit muddy to me but this maintained throughout. Was initially worried with the length but this was fucking great.
Meh. Haha.
Not as good as roots but still great
Really liked this. C.I.U stood out to me.
Brazilian heavy metal, didn't not enjoy
2nd one star album in a row and I can't wait for the 3rd 👍
Top metal album! A lot of influences can be heard. Was the perfect anthem for my Friday.
never heard of these guys but i am a big metal fan, this album was great.
I liked this more than I thought I would, the music had good flow and was catchy and dare I say.... boppy? I just can't get behind the death growl vocals.
Nice but too much adrenaline for Smoluchowski theory
I'm not the biggest thrash fan. There are a few bangers here, but the mid-tempo tracks were a real bore.
Uninspiring lead guitar, growled vocals makes this Me[h](tal) for me.
I like metal, but I have always steered away from Sepultura as I thought they were too heavy but I was wrong. I enjoyed it, the music was great but the voice was a bit grating but on the whole I am now not scared of the band… Win!
I put this on with dread, their reputation precedes them. But although this is a sub-genre of rock of which I most certainly not a fan. I was actually quite impressed by it. The only band I have heard do it better is Evil Scarecrow. I was also quite surprised by the cover of Orgasmatron, which in fairness I took a while to recognise it. Really liked this version. As I said this isn't my type of rock, but it was done really well. If it was my type it'd be getting a 4 definitely but I can't really justify more than a 3.
One paced, one dimensional, zero enjoyment, one star (because zero stars wasn’t an option).
Experimental Thrash Metal? I failed to hear anything experimental. Is sounded like Trash Metal. I wasn't aware the album had finished, as the song playing straight after sounded exactly like then, but is was by a band called Exodus. That's the problem with this genre, there is little room for experimentation when you are hammering your instruments as fast as you can. Maybe that's why I like the Wedding Present, they did fast better. It was ok, but it didn't make me want to delve deeper into the genre.
Can't believe I hadn't heard this before. Thrashier version of old school Metallica. This is a classic and going into the rotation ASAP
Incredible.
Good music to lift to. I understand this is a competent metal album and there is definitely musicality here, but really there's too much guitar noodling for my taste. I think I gotta give it a 4 even though I'll probably never listen to it outside of shitty gym speakers.
Really? I was into hard rock in 1991 and this never hit my cd player. It's just ferocious rock that never lets up and the vocals (if you want to call it that) are shockingly bad. You know that feeling when you're ready to get off the rollercoaster and you don't want it to do another lap? That's what this album did for me. Did this start a new genre, is that why it's on the T1001? I have heard of ton of shitty bands that sound like this since 1991, maybe they were the first. Utterly unenjoyable. Depressing song titles. Way Too Much Kick Drum! No soul. No hits, but somehow 29M people listened to the title track on Spotify. Glad none of them are in my neighborhood. 1 star for trying.
The album is "classic thrash/death" metal and it's very good, the problem other albums in this genre are better (where is Death!), this album really doesn't highlight what made Sepultura great and unique. Chaos A.D. which is the next album would have been a better choice. Anyway still great to see this band appear twice so far, however I doubt there will be a third.
Solid death metal: growling vocals, precise musicianship, chunky and heavy guitar with screaming solos. Too much can get repetitive.
As with the other records of this genre, it's all about the drums and guitars. Not sure why, this felt more generic then some of the other metal records. The MotorHead cover was the best song of the album.
I liked this one a little bit more than the last Sepultura album we had. But I didn't like it.
That made my ears bleed
Kind of all the same thing, but very consistent and heavy with some great guitar. Best song: Desperate Cry
Verse 1 Rising from the depths of a sonic tomb, Forged in fire and twisted doom, I walk the path where the damned reside, 1001 records—my eternal guide. Pre-Chorus In every crackle, every howl of pain, The ghosts of metal whisper my name. Chorus I must endure the endless grind, The cursed albums that seal my mind, In the clash of riffs and relentless might, 1001 echoes before I fade into night. Verse 2 Through the noise and the chaos, I bleed, Each vinyl scar sows the seeds, Of ancient rage and relentless sound, In every album, my fate is found. Bridge Screams of distortion—an infernal choir, Each note ignites a funeral pyre, As I bear the weight of metal’s wrath, The record spins, leading me down a blood-soaked path. Breakdown Shredding memories, relentless and raw, No salvation in silence, only the call Of 1001 lifetimes, each a brutal test, I embrace the torment, never to rest. Chorus I must endure the endless grind, The cursed albums that seal my mind, In the clash of riffs and relentless might, 1001 echoes before I fade into night. Outro In the abyss of sound, my soul is reborn, Bound by the vinyl, tattered and worn, As the final track plays on, I rise above, A warrior of metal, forever in love.
lækkert med noget ordentligt smadder. Jeg har aldrig hørt et Sepultura album før, og var rimelig overrasket over hvor gammelt det er
HVORFOR RÅBER DE SÅDAN??!!
Way more thrashy and way less death metal than I imagined! Sick riffs and great songs! What a banger!
Goodness gracious. Liked the atmosphere. Heavy metal lyrics are always a bit cringe to me. And some of the solos were just a bit limp for my liking.
5/5. It's rare to find metal on lists like these so when this came on, I honestly forgot it was still a genre especially when pulling from here. At first, I was thrown off by vocals but with great mixing and guitar and drums, this album sounds amazing. I was enjoying each song and was excited to replay it. Part of it might have been the fact that I never get to hear metal on here so it was a nice change of pace. Even still, I was having a good time and I'll have to revisit the lyrics but from what I could catch, seemed very political and angry at the right people so that's always a plus. There are also clear signs of introducing different styles to classic thrash that was nice to hear. Best Song: Arise, Dead Embryonic Cells, Altered State, Infected Voice
Blows Metallica out of the water. Genuinely some of the tightest early 90s metal I've ever heard. And I can hear the lyrics!
yeah, I remember them back in the day. Kinda nostalgic, but not something I'd put on now.
I feel like I have already heard this album just by looking at the album cover.
Would like to have been able to see the band's faces when someone showed them this Michael Whelan cover art for the first time. I bet they were grinning all afternoon. The album is okay as far as death metal goes.
Explosive metal sounds and hatred based lyrics are not my cup of tea. I can see the calling though and how influential this could be.
Pretty badass. Love seeing the sentiment of “fuck the police” crossing genres, cultural and even linguistic boundaries.
I didn't hate it, but definitely a little too thrash metal for my tastes. Excited to get Roots though!
eh? so after Black Sabbath's namesake album, here's some newer metal coming from... Brazil? but ohhhhhhh, this is pretty decent. although at many times, it just feels... flat. 3/5 anyway.
Classic metal sound
Metal rock. Pass
Nowadays I can't put on metal at any time of the day, in any mood like I used to. Was more than happy to have a few spins of this, and loved the nostalgic production. It's a 3.5 but can have a 4
As far as metal goes, I think you can do worse than this. For me personally, I couldn't wait for this to be over. I did end up with a headache after listening to it, too.
Damn good metal album that is a great example of the thrash genre
Este disco es bestial en todos sus aspectos, sonido , producción , composición , potencia , años dorados de los autenticos Sepultura. En mi opinión este disco tiene más elementos de Death Metal que de Thrash, una banda con un estilo unico. Brasil, obrigado!
Nope
Perhaps if I was an angsty 14-year-old boy in the nineties, I would be able to listen to this all the way through. But I'm not, so I just can't.
90s Brazilian death metal is not what I would probably expect to listen to on a Thursday morning but sometimes life calls for 90s Brazilian death metal and this definitely provided
Best metal record of the nineties.
++: Dead Embryonic Cells, Murder, Altered State, Meaningless Movements +: Arise, Desperate Cry, Under Siege (Regnum Irae) +-: Subtraction, Infected Voice 7,3/10
The mere existence of this album on this list is surprising in so many ways, 1. This list actually has a really good (and somewhat niche) metal album 2. This list has a Sepultura album 3. This list actually has TWO Sepultura albums 4. And then for some reason they chose Arise over Chaos A.D. I still love this album too but I think Chaos A.D. is a little more refined and it has bigger hits too. Man I forgot how much this album rips. My favorite thing about this album is that whenever a song start to get boring or repetitive they add this crazy breakdown. I swear the second half of every song here is better than the first half. Low 5.
An early mix of Metallica and Slipknot. I liked this album, but nothing really shocked me about it. 5/10
Super solid metal album, front-to-back. Sad that this band was never more popular outside of the metal community!
100/10. Jeez, I've been giving far too many albums 5/5 ratings. This album right here is a true 5/5-deserving album. I LOVE Sepultura. They're one of my favourite bands. This album is a masterpiece. It's a miracle that not only one, but TWO Sepultura albums made it into Robert Dimery's album list, considering the considerable bias against metal music, and non-British music. Anyway, Sepultura is awesome. Rock on! :)
Actually pretty good
3.8 if their vocalist was as good as James hetfield (cliche I know) then they would be a household name
South American heavy metal is fascinating to learn about and Sepultura is one of the biggest acts to come out of that part of the world. The fury and passion this music evokes is so welcome on this list. Such a fantastic listen today.
Not my cup of tea.
I like it, it’s just a bit repetitive
oof
The same guitar sound in every track (notice I didn't call them songs). That and bellowing. Made me wish we'd gotten a rap album today...which is saying a lot. Just awful.
I could not make it through 45 minutes of this, but it's nice to see that Cookie Monster has found a healthy way of working out his frustrations. We could all take a lesson from him.
Metal album from I group I don’t know. I often need to spend time with albums of this gendre so I’ll revisit and re review
An album with a real clarity of purpose, this is a pretty perfect realization of the thrash model, it's full of rage and resentment, furious, aggressive and explosive. Relentless drums blast away like machine guns. Thunderous bass and tight dialed in guitars tear through riffs like tornados before unleashing some gnarly shreding solos and lead harmonies. The chug becomes a groove when they let it sprawl a bit. The vocals are a growling barked sub-scream, a bit one note though.
Instruments get a 4* but vocals are a 1*.
I have come to realize that with these heavy metal bands it comes down to the vocals for me. I will pretty much always be banging my head when the instruments kick in but the vocals can make or break the album. This one the vocals were not groundbreaking but they were not detrimental to either. A cross between Metallica and unintelligible yelling. Overall solid metal album. 6/10
This sucked. Bland basic thrash metal. The intense drumming, power chords, and incoherent voice are just thrown together and I don’t see at all what they amount to. Never again
Rhythmically interesting, but everything else is just a bit bland, which I definitely didn't expect from a metal album.
Masterfully done album. So crisp, and sharp while unrelenting and merciless. Always wonderful to listen to, never gets old.
thrash This is just mostly not for me. There are some things that are interesting and surprising, things that catch me off guard. But I'm pretty checked out for the most part. It's a fine album. But for me personally, it's not a style I like, and it doesn't do anything interesting or extra to really rope me in. I'm sure for someone out there this is a great (maybe even an elite???) album, but I just don't see/hear it. Favorite Song(s): Desperate Cry
This made me write my thesis draft at lightning speed. Thank you Sepultura. 7/10 Fave track: Dead Embryonic Cells
Emo Metal
Metal! 3 stars
No. 309/1001 Arise 2/5 Dead Embryoinc Cells 2/5 Desperate Cry 2/5 Murder 2/5 Subtraction 2/5 Altered State 2/5 Under Siege 2/5 Meaningless Movements 2/5 Infected Voice 2/5 Average: 2,0 Just not my kind of music.
I did not expect this album at all! BANGER! I guess I can see why it’s rated low because metal but come on!
3.8 - Wow I actually didnt hate it. Sometimes I felt the drums took over way too much and was sometimes a bit obnoxious, but I guess that's their intention. A lot of the instrumental stuff was really cool though
Not really for me I’ll say. I liked Desperate Cry in points when it was running at half speed. I can’t stand incessant double bass drum kicking. 2.2/5
Had I heard this back when it came out, I would have liked it more. Now that I’m older, I just can’t get into stuff this heavy as much. I still liked it, mostly, but it just isn’t my thing anymore. The double bass was pretty awesome though. I didn’t become aware of Sepultura until later in the 90s because earlier I didn’t have friends that listened to this type of metal and my CD budget didn’t allow for as much buying out of curiosity as I would have liked. As this received zero air play and Spotify didn’t exist yet, it never hit my radar. However, I didn’t become aware happen upon Roots Bloody Roots in the late 90s and I would very much recommend that album over this one. Arise is much more straight forward thrashing, as opposed to the intentional tribal influence of Roots. It’s still heavy, but definitely the better of the two. If this is their most acclaimed album, I can imagine what that would make me think of the rest of their work.
I needed this album today. I guess I have always been a Sepultura fan and didn't realize it.
When I started playing the first song, I almost immediately turned it off and gave it a 2, but I decided to let it play. While this isn't my favorite genre by a long shot, I did enjoy some of this album. It reminded me of Metallica at times and the drumming kept me interested.
It was ok. Metal bands really know how to shred a guitar, and this band was good at that too. It didn't really hold my attention beyond that.
Not my genre but as the type goes, this was solid. Now I debate myself, is it a 4 because it's so good at what it's trying to do, or is it a 3 because I am never going to put this on again?
Not a genre of music I would usually listen to. More enjoyable than I was expecting, really great musicianship. Only downside was the vocals.
I'm not usually a fan of Thrash/Death Metal, but I liked this album.
Thrasherpiece
Not my thing
OVERALL: I've been purposely putting this one off because I do not like death metal at all. After listening, my mind has barely changed. Every single song has vocals that I don't like, I really can't think of anything good other than that they aren't too annoying. I guess the intrumental is usually not that bad, but it consistently sounds the same almost every single time. The lyrics are honestly probably the most consistent and possibly the best part of this album, they are almost always good or decent, but always talk about death or something. Overall, I don't like the overly aggressive and chaotic sound and I think the lyrics could probably have more variation in topics. I really wish I gave Electric Prunes a 1, because I think I like that album as much as this one, but this being my first 1 is fine with me. SONG AVG: 4.47 PERSONAL RATING: 2.5/10 Arise: I'm definitely gonna need genius for this album. This genre is not something that I listen to often or particularly like, so I'm not expecting to like many songs here. The vocals are very aggressive, but I don't really like how they sound and I feel like it doesn't match up with the instrumental sometimes. I do enjoy some parts of the instrumental, but it is overall pretty bad. The drums are good by themselves, but sometimes they don't line up with the guitar that well. The guitar is good I guess. 4/10 Dead Embryonic Cells: I like this song when the vocals are not in it. The instrumental is an improvement from the last song, the guitar is pretty good and the drums are incredible, and I don't really dislike anything about it. I guess it's probably pretty generic, but it's still good. I don't like the vocals, and I don't really know how to explain it other than that I just really don't like the harsher style, probably because I can't understand them. 6.75/10 Desperate Cry: I really like the instrumental, lots of interesting details used and the constant switching is actually pretty good. Vocals are consistent in quality with the other songs, the last "cry" is kinda funny. The instrumental absolutely carries this song, although it does use a fade out outro. I guess the lyrics are above average??? Nothing so far has stood out lyrically to me. 8/10 Murder: The instrumental is fine, although the weird guitar that gets introduced at like 2:30 is kinda weird. The vocals are consistent with the other songs, but the lyrics are better than the other songs so that's good I guess. 3.5/10 Subtraction: The intro does not need to be 10 seconds long, but it is pretty good. I swear the drums are on a loop or something. The guitar is alternating between being the same thing as the other songs and having a decently interesting melody. The vocals are, once again, not that good. The lyrics are good I guess. 5/10 Altered State: I really like the intro, and the rest of the instrumental is pretty good but gets worse overall as the song goes on. The vocals are under average, which is a slight improvement. I don't know if I like this or hate it, but I think there are more flaws overall despite the instrumental being really creative. 7/10 Under Seige (Regnum Irae): The instrumental is the best part of this song, and it's slightly above average. I guess the lyrics are good, but I can't really hear them with the dogshit vocals. The vocals are easily the worst on this song, the weird reversed sounding vocals are horrible and don't really work well with any part of the song. I guess the outro is good. The song in the ad I got after this was better than this. 1.25/10 Meaningless Movements: Probably one of the more forgettable songs here. The instrumental is fine, I like the drums and the guitar does some interesting stuff, but most of the time it does the same measure on a loop for a while. The vocals have really weird inflection, even with the lyrics pulled up I cannot really make out some of the words. Right after listening to this, I cannot really tell you anything about it that I remember. 2/10 Infected Voice: Same comment about instrumental in Meaningless Movements here. Literally just the same review as Meaningless Movements but the vocals are better. 2.75/10
Good album. I particularly enjoyed Me And Julio By The Schoolyard, and Run That Body Down.
Not the biggest Metal fan, songs hit hard enough, may come back to it
Not going to get an obligatory love ballad in the middle of this, am I?
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7/10 Delayed to listen to this album too much. Because I only listen during my morning commute this album had to prove itself a lot; as its hard to listen to trash before you even had coffee. But it was good trash
yikes
A brilliant metal record in a time where those were starting to get hard to come by. Sepultura was one of the few bands keeping extreme metal alive during the dark ages of the 90s. Arise isn't Roots Bloody Roots but it's a damn fine record. Excellent intro track, too.
Not doing this a second time.
Cookie Monster throws a bag of pennies down the garbage disposal.
Some nice instrumental playing the second song on the album, but really hard for me to listen on a dayily basis
Thought every metal album would be a 1 as I can’t stand the genres, but giving this a 2 as I actually didn’t hate it!
Varmaan hyvä lajissaan, mut en vaan saa mitään irti trashista… kaipaan edes jotain melodianpilkahduksia. Pakko antaa ykkönen, vaikka en inhoa…
Kiinnostavaa huomata kuinka kovassa mekkalassa voikaan vajota omiin ajatuksiinsa. En epäile, etteikö kelpaisi harrastajille.
Pretty badass. I like the sound a lot. Surprised they were Brazillian
Dogshit
I hate to sound too uptight but the album is too anti religious for my taste. I prefer Chaos AD as that album is much more of an attack on human institutions and corruption rather than divinity itself.
b tier thrash. good headbanging stuff but not transcendental
Thing about some types of metal is ... the songs sound so much alike, I can hardly tell when one ends and the other begins.
Good vibe for the video game I was playing but I wouldn’t call it “good”
Intense. Actually enjoyed it.
4/5. Kilka kawałków bardzo dobrych, szczególnie w drugiej połowie płyty, np. Meaningless Movements
A great metal album - I think i even prefer this to Roots although only by a bit.
I think this album turned me into a metalhead.
Favorite Track: Altered State
A ton of great riffs, but maybe a little light on song structure.
This is the first one in this project that I truly couldn't listen to. The singer isn't singing. He's making guttural sounds. Not my thing.
Het hangt af van de drums, maar de drums zijn niet goed genoeg om het album ervan af te laten hangen, dus het valt door de mand
Du très bon trash metal, mais j'ai un peu de misère à voir le gros hype autour de cet album. Pour moi ça sonne très trash à la Slayer. Reste que c'est vraiment amusant et très bien fait. 7/10
Love me some Metal but they’ve never been one of my favourites. Still some good stuff on here
Guys why are we yelling
Angry driving music.
I guess this is fine thrash/death metal. It's just not for me by any means.
Nice festive fair for boxing day. OK, listening now instead of just looking at the album art, and good news, this album would be just the thing almost any day of the year. Two thumbs up. Thank you to the reviewers that suggested checking out their next album too.
Oh man I love Anthrax !! Who? But they sound just like... Oh well \m/ all the same
Better than the last Sepultura album. These guys can bring it.
Lot of great guitar riffs throughout the album, but can only manage to listen to this in small doses at a time.
Not my cup of tea at all.
Very samey album, and a couple of odd tracks such as Orgasmatron which sound so odd.
Originally wrote a very long review on why I didn’t find this personally essential. Deleted it as it doesn’t deserve the words - it’s just monotonous in so many ways, Boring, drivel. Wasn’t as unlistenable as the band name, album cover and song titles suggest - but that is a very low bar, and would suggest that’s also a failing of the band in a way, if you are going to be so “oh so uncomfortable” then I as a non believer should struggle, but I only struggled with boredom.
Maybe there will be days that I'm in the mood for a thrash metal-a-thon but today was not one and honestly, they aren't a regular occurrence. Rapid bastard drums and growly vocals just can't make up for what I will admit is some cool guitar riffery in a few places. And it's too. Damn. Long.
Album 628 of 1001 Sepultura - Arise (1991) Rating : 2.5 / 5 Almost as much of a mess as the last one I did from them but a tad better. I like a bit of metal but this is just too much for my liking. A lot of noise with a few nice guitar riffs and some decent drums.
enjoyed the hard edge of the music, but man, those lyrics...
Just terrible the drumming is compartmentalized making the songs feel awkwardly stitched together and clumsy.
Fuck no. It was passable until the singing/ shouting started and it all went wrong.
It was lit!
I hate this style of music. Great when I was younger but now it bores me to death or makes me feel sick.
Hell. Yeah. 5
Rating: 8.5/10 Incredibly heavy and groovy, what a fun listen.
1. arize - 1.5 2. cellz - 1 3. cry - 1.5 4. murder - 1.5 5. zubtraction - 1 6. ztate - 1.5 7. ziege - 1 8. meaninglezz - 1.5 9. voice - 1 10. orgazmatron - 1 11. intro - 1 12. uniform - 1 13. dezperate - 1.5
Awful. Screaming and poor musicianship. Not worth a single listen.
I liked this better than expected but then again I just had to suffer through a Christina Aguilera album so this was probably what I needed at this very moment in time. Next up Alice in Chains, Bring it on 🤗
#Daily1001Albums The shouty, gravelly vocals really aren't my thing. There’s lots of gnarly guitar mixed in with extreme guitar wankery. I enjoyed parts of it and in its context I can see why it’s seen as a classic. Ultimately, just not my thing
Best metal album I’ve heard so far. These guys know their stuff, they’re tight, they go very hard! 4.3
Rough hardcore metal stuff. Not my jam at all.
Questionable choice of an album from Sepultura. I guess this is the record where the band started showing flashes of their new style, which was groundbreaking for metal music at the time, although it's definitely not their best achievement in the discography. I think that Sepultura peaked with Roots, had some really high standard with albums right before and after, and the rest is pretty standard or forgettable, like Arise. I like this titled song from the record, but the thing is, the rest of the album is quite monotone and similar. Plus for metal representation, minus on the choice.
Difficult. I scored Roots a 3 which was an objectively worse album than this. I preferred the thrash/industrial theme much more than the tribal/nu-metal one Roots represented, but still... There was nothing really drawing me back in after the third full run through. It just feels a bit empty, which is such a shame given the multitude of vastly superior metal albums out there as I went into detail with on my Roots review. If that was a 2.5*, this was a 3.5*, but still not good enough for a 4.
Beaucoup aimé ce métal assez classique, pesant sans être antipathique
I listen to this a few times a year. Still as good now as it was 30 ish years ago
Way better than the album art would suggest. Don't judge a book by its cover
Not into the metal guitar and screaming.
Not my preferred style of music.
I like some of their other albums better. This is ok.
This is an absolute classic.
Not a big fan of whatever this is.... death metal? Speed metal? It does have a few moments that I did enjoy especially in the songs Desperate Cries and Altered State. And I was able to make it through the whole album, thankfully it's not an overly ong album. I'll bite my lip and give it 3 stars
I'm not really into metal, so this was new to me. This isn't something I would listen to again, but for what it was, it was alright. Sounds like any other metal album to me.
This album has a particularly ridiculous cover. Musically, it seems quite spirited, but ultimately a bit cliched. The singer sounds pretty grumpy, and the band just sort of bang away. Not my sort of thing, and a bit headache-inducing when played on headphones.
Fast, unrelentingly fast. That’s Sepultura on Arise...It all adds up to an amazing album without any weak spots. https://open.substack.com/pub/richcain/p/project-1001-arise-by-sepultura?r=4ztyq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Fast, hard riffs. Killer drumming. Harsh vocals. What's not to love? This band has always reminded me of what Metallica would sound like with death metal vocals
For fuck sake, hell no.
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Even though I really dig it, the album sounded really same-y
Actually quite enjoyed this. Not my usual thing (at all) but for some reason I found this quite entertaining. Quite probably the industrial influences piqued my interest more than standard heavy rock fare does. Some interesting sounds in there and at least it had some musical variation. Not likely to ever play it again, but not the worst album on this list by any stretch.
Lie down, more like. Actually, it wasn't that bad. Some of the more melodic moments gave me pause for thought. The tribal drumming has a certain appeal. But it's still metal shit, right?
Don’t know what has the largest calluses, the guitarists’ fingers or the vocalist’s vocal cords. Still, strangely listenable.
4/10…trash metal
Reading the wiki about this album really helped me appreciate what I was hearing. Dudes rock
Forgettable and redundant Nnn
Can’t say I listened to the full album so maybe the song to change my mind was the last one
Heavy metal. Very tight. Impressive drumming. New to me album.
👍
That's metal for sure.
Um, no. I did not care to listen.
Sorry, I couldn't get past the vocals here, which are very much not to my liking. I got four or five tracks in and felt compelled to bail.
I struggled a bit with this one. It has a few moments. Mostly I thought it sounded like they were going for that early Metallica sound and style, just not as good. 2.5/5
Not a genre that I ever really explored. And probably won’t after this listen. Incredible to read that these guys have sold 20 million records worldwide. But, admittedly, even though every song pretty much sounded alike, this was a decent listen due to some nice tempo shifts and slow downs and some occasional face-melting guitar work. The drumming deserves its own call out as it is pretty sick. I also recorded my fastest average pace bike ride after listening. Not coincidental. Arise indeed.
Man, you know I’m down with some metal riffs, double bass, yell singing and melodic breakdowns. Gets me right in that 3 zone easy…but this just doesn’t have that extra je ne sais quoi to get me to that 4. Let’s go 3.25
I listened to this album on my way to work. I drove 100mph the whole way, jumped out of the moving vehicle when I got to the office, and punched the first person I saw. 3.25/5
Not a big fan of thrash, but I can hear that the album is good. Just not for me
Pretty rad, very Metallica esque
God what a noise. Good noise at first, but it also gets old quick.
As someone who doesn’t like metal music, this did very little to change my mind. The drums were cool though.
best metal album ive heard so far. but not for me
Yes!
I'll say the same for Arise that I did for the last Sepultura album we had over two years ago, it's okay but it's a little one-speed for me and there's a lot of metal around this time and especially since that's more nuanced and interesting than most of this delivers. Orgasmatron is easily the best song on here because it does something different and interesting, on its own not enough to lift it above a 2 though.
This hurt my head. There's no nuance to this, like there is with most of the better metal albums we've had, not much in terms of variation either. Don't know why we had two of their albums, one was plenty and this one was the wrong one. 1/5.
Classic stuff. Riff city. A+
... I enjoyed this far more than I was expecting to!
Good metal, but the production is a bit muddy, and I prefer more melody in the vocals.
Probably would have liked it when I was fourteen but I just can't stand the drumming. And why are the lyrics on metal albums so shit? Get a little joy in your life, fuck me dead they're from Brazil, how can you be so depressed and nihilistic in Brazil? Scandinavia I could understand.
A genre typical album in a genre I don't typically like. Not for me and I don't feel I can properly judge it. The tracks all sound distinct from one another, which is a good sign I guess when thrash metal often blends into one to my ears.
Really good metal album. Aggresive enough, but not too overpowering.
I like some of the driving guitar riffs and more melodic bits that they sprinkle in there, but it's not really my bag in general. If the vocals weren't so harsh I would probably like it more. 2.5 rounded down.
Enjoyed
So weird to find Arise on the 1001 album list. It's a killer thrash metal album that I've listened to countless times but Sepulturas album Roots is more understandable as it's more unique and more differentiated from other albums in the genre. Still Arise is a 5/5 album but as thrash metal albums goes I would rather recommend early Slayer or Metallica.
Devil Retch on unintelligible lead vocals again. This band is only worthy of one entry on the 1001 too long album list. First time you hear them is a shock, this time I want my hour back (0.5*s)
Someone with safety pins as earrings please explain to me why this makes the list (again). It's literally the same as every other thrash metal I've heard and I still don't really like it. The description says they incorporated latin percussion and that's partially what sets this album apart from their previous but I don't hear it at all (and thanks to the list I'm a pro at latin music now). I didn't need to hear this but I guess it wasn't the worst. 1.35 for fast-drumming.
Not sure how this demon squad got 2 albums on the list. More of the same from Sepultura...heavy death metal with some good guitar/drum work and semi-incoherent lyrics. Not as good as Roots but earlier in their development. I need a metal-buff to give me the significance of this band in music history. I'm not really getting it although still not as bad as Beyonce...2.
While I would gladly skip this entry I enjoyed it more than the prior Sepultura album. A little more grounded with seemingly less demon wretch (though still a healthy amount). I'm not really into thrash/death metal but I guess if I had to point to an album this is probably the best representation I can think of. It's got a lot of the standard earmarks I would associate with a down-the-middle death metal act as far as I can tell and was overall not the worst listen. While speed metal artists are admittedly very skilled, I find it hard to differentiate between the various songs. They all appear to follow a pretty similar structure with limited variance between the drums, riffs, and over the top lyrics. More power to you if this is what floats your boat. For me, it's fine in very small doses but I just don't feel like I'm missing anything by passing on this genre for the most part. Not sure why Sepultura gets more than 1 album on here but evidently I needed to hear them again before I die. 1.66 stars
I audibly sighed when I saw this was today's album. Yesterday I had Metallica's Master of Puppets, and after listening to that aural turd, I really didn't fancy more of the same. Fortunately, however, while this genre isn't my cup of tea at all, this was significantly better that Metallica's crappy offering. I didn't like the death metal vocals, there was too much growling and not enough singing, but the music had some variation and points of interest to accompany the chugging guitars. It's not something I'd listen to again, but I didn't hate it, like I hated Master of Puppets.
I don’t know metal well enough to rate
I appreciate the skill of the musicians and kind of actually dig the metal music, but I just can't with this type of singing.
This is as classic as thrash metal can come. Masterfully produced by Scott Burns, the bad boys of Brazil unleash their fury as they materialize their hellish soundscape of death and corruption. This is my favorite kind of thrash metal; vicious with some kickass solos to bridge the tracks together. However, and to piggyback off one of the popular reviews for this album, I agree this was the oddest choice for Sepultura over Choas AD. That album is probably considered more iconic and feels more “necessary” to listen to. Arise is great, but the band hasn’t reached their peak yet, as some of it feels too standard for thrash. That does cost it a star, but it’s still important for the band, and it a good showing of their work. With that said, I eagerly await the day the generator gives me Roots. Favorite track: Arise Other hits: Dead Embryonic Cells (try saying that title in front of your parents), Subtraction, Altered State, Desperate Cry
This album rips so hard
I started it 5 times to be honest. So much noise and bam and bum. I mean, metallica has some slow songs in between, you get to hear Turn your page etc. These ones were drang a drang all the time
Thrash metal certainly has its place. But that place is not in my playlist. Liked this a little better than some other thrash we’ve heard here, but only a little. 1.2/5.
A one trick pony, if playing hard (to like) is a trick. It certainly was no treat.
Intense. Preferred the second half of the album to the first.
Don't care for the vocals. Songs are pretty similar for the most part.
Oh what a joy ... some good music again, the third album in a row which I like after having had to fight through the last 10 albums (of which 9 were really boring)
Went into this expecting metal and got metal. Felt like it got very repetitive by the end though.
Meh. Not my jam.
Ik heb alle nummers 30 seconden opgezet en daaruit kunnen concluderen dat dit album hetzelfde cijfer krijgt als de vorige plaat van deze idioten. Ik bedoel, wat voor een verkrampte, verdorde ziel moet je zijn als je zulke meuk loopt te maken? Dat uitgedroogde levende lijk in de film Seven heeft meer levensvreugde dan dit stelletje geesteszieken. Ik begin serieus te overwegen om te kappen met het luisteren naar deze 1001 albums als ze telkens met zoveel bagger komen aanzetten.
Lekker tempootje hoor. Dat is dan ook wel de onderscheidende factor. Standaard power rock, maar dan snel. De (repeterende) drums hebben dit vooral op hun geweten. Terwijl de 'zang' het tempo niet volgt. Daardoor komt die zang wat los van het geheel. Het stoort me wat. Maar blijkbaar ook weer niet zo erg, want na een paar nummers lukt het me eigenlijk niet meer om actief te luisteren. Het zakt maar weg naar de achtergrond. En dan weet je al wat de uitslag wordt: een vergeetbare 3 sterren.
Toen ik dit album voorgeschoteld kreeg, dacht ik gelijk: waarom een 2x keer Sepultura? Was 1 niet genoeg? En missen we nu niet allerlei andere metalalbums in deze lijst, die er absoluut niet in hadden misstaan. Ik was dus helemaal in de rantmodus. Ik wilde uit protest een 1 gaan geven. En toen zette ik het album aan. Nondeju! Ouderwetse thrashmetal waar Metallica in de beginjaren zijn hand ook niet voor omdraaide. Dikke riffs, groovy. Ondersteund door goede drumritmes, die af en toe vertragen of versnellen in een off-beat. En dan een gillende gitaarsolo eroverheen. Wat een moddervet album. Thrash met een hoofdletter T. Een kleine 45 minuten later stopt de moshpit en mag de neckbrace om voor de komende tijd. Wat lekker zeg. Eindelijk weer eens een keer 5 sterretjes.
No way these guys should have more than one album on this list. Hopefully this is the last.
Thoughts before listening: Gotta say I'm surprised to see another Sepultura album on this list. For the first one, my favorite songs were the ones with tribal elements mixed with the heavy metal sound. If theres more of that on this album than I am excited to hear it, but if this leans more into the cookie monster growl metal side of Sepultura it's going to be a tough listen. Review: This is better than I was expecting. Its definitely growly death metal which is usually a turn off, but there is also undeniable songwriting here. As someone not overly versed in the different metal subgenres, the music here sounds like thrash to me. Similar to bands I enjoy like Metallica and Megadeth. Thats a good thing to me and I am giving this 3-stars.
terrible! All the tracks the same; an intro that sounds promising and then just the same rhythmic guitar chords with that awful voice. 'under siege' and 'orgathron' have possibilities of turning into something interesting but all the rest was the same head-banging boredom.
I can’t figure out what this has to say. The intros are the best part then it reliable turns into an exercise in how fast palm muted power chords can be played and some decent bedroom guitar antics. Sometimes I get into it in a similar way I like electronic music, the rhythms and repetition but can’t find a meaningful connection to it in the end.
A fine change of pace with these daily albums!
Not my type of music
Not my style
Instant reaction is that drums and guitar work are ace and the vocals are rubbish but the album was really samey and kept up that hyper aggressive style throughout which I got tired of pretty quickly. If I was listening to a playlist and a single song came on I wouldn't mind at all but a whole album was too much. I struggled to finish the album if I am honest
Kinda heavy in the morning, but good metal
Avevo una recensione più cattiva ma la terrò per me stesso
Non la mia tazza di tè, diciamo. Sarò io, ma trovo un certo tipo di metal piuttosto noioso. Nel caso di questo album, ho percepito una didascalità che mi ha fatto un po’ storcere il naso. Nel senso, se vuoi parlare del fatto che il mondo per te è un luogo che arreca sofferenza (cosa assolutamente legittima), mi aspetto che tu esprima questa cosa in una maniera più sfumata e interessante rispetto a “il mondo fa schifo”, “i leader ci reprimono” e “la mia mente è piena di ombre” (non sono citazioni testuali, ma racchiudono un po’ il contenuto di diverse canzoni dell’album). Capisco che la musica non debba per forza essere emotivamente profonda, però dopo un po’ che due scatole, non mi stai dicendo nulla di interessante o stimolante. Diciamo che anche a livello strumentale non mi ha fatto impazzire: a parte qualche apertura un po’ più melodica e qualche assolo qua e là, mi sembra tutto abbastanza piatto (ma ammetto che questo potrebbe essere dovuto a mie lacune in questo genere specifico). Dò 2/5 perché qualcosa di salvabile c’è, dai.
Lasted 13 seconds before I wanted to start punching kittens. No bueno.
Heavy metal is not my kind of music. But I did listen to the whole thing and I could see the musical talent on the guitar. Most likely will never listen to it again but it could have been worse.
Not my thing at all
Got half way through... Not my thing at all.
This list has been pretty light on metal; perhaps that's intentional... And looking back through the genre filters, it's hard to justify the likes of Rush, ZZ Top, and Hendrix in "metal" of any categorization. Out of the gate, this is obviously borrowing from a thrash/groove playbook. But seems to have more alignment with Pantera than early Metallica in the use of heavy riffs, tempo play, and aggression. Desperate Cry is among my favorites of the first half. Some back and forth tempo play, and a section towards the 5:00 mark where there is a sludgy rhythmic guitar riff with this contrasting dissonant reverberation in the background that is just fantastic. IMO metal and certain strains of electronica make for the best background music when coding. Perfect slurry of propulsive tempos with heavily rhythmic composition that keep you moving and stimulated from start to finish. This was a fine thrash album and I'm glad for it this Monday morning. High 4.
Like: the speed and energy Dislike: the vocalist, the fact that it all sounds the same. Enjoyable shallow listen, but that's about it.
Nothing wrong with a little 9:30am Tuesday morning death metal. This is exactly what I expected this to sound like in terms of death/thrash metal. Nothing wrong with that at all cause I am a pretty big fan. There were some really cool speed metal parts in a few songs too which I am always down with. Not my favorite type of metal but it was definitely good. Pretty low 4 because I liked this much more than a 3.
Not really my jam even though I got into the music parts, but the screaming is a lot. Def can appreciate some thrash metal. High 2.
This album rips! I'd take it over any Pantera album.
Not my jam
Yeah nah
I could tell by the name of the band that this would be metal or screaming and I was correct on that assessment. Not enjoyable
Nope. Couldn't finish it.
One of the better metal albums on this list. Some of these tracks sound like they were lifted off Ministry’s The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Pretty solid.
La verdad pensé que lo iba a sufrir más, pero no está mal. Eso sí, no es mucho mi onda. Pero no aburre como el Justice de los metálica.
Long time since I listened to this
I will say that I enjoyed this album a lot more than I thought I would. Heavy metal is generally not my favorite genre, and it normally has to do with the vocals or the guitar. I thought the guitar was solid and not overly distorted, which is normally where my problem comes from. The vocals were definitely my least favorite part of the album, but they weren't the worst metal vocals, so they didn't bother me that much. The drums were on point, and I do love hard hitting drums. Overall I enjoyed the album, not sure how often I'll come back to it, but always nice to be proven wrong based on initial thoughts.
It would have been cool if I had known about this sooner
The natural comparison point is Slayer, but I hardly listen to Slayer and think "fuck! I wish there was less music like this" so how could I possibly be mad?
So glad there were two Sepultura albums on here. Heavier than I usually listen to but great to get more than one exposure to them.
Not my thing. At all.
Dogshit
Arise What’s there to say? This isn’t my cup of tea, and even if it was my cup of tea it would have gone cold and have off milk in it. There really is nothing to redeem it, the lyrics are drivel, it sounds crap and thin, the songs are all the same, it’s not even confrontationally aggressive, it sounds so by the numbers it doesn't even have any shocking power. Drivel, absolute drivel. 🪦 Playlist submission: Who gives a shit really, but Desperate Cry as it has some synth in it
For when you need a woman repellent
Not even a little
Some tracks ok when no one was ‘singing’. Skipped through most of it, could grow on me. Like Altered State. 1.5
ekat 30 sekuntia.... uskomatonta... brazzilian ambience... sitten perus metallijaska pölinää... kuulostaa ihan hyvältä.. these eguyz metal guyz scariest looking people will be the nicest you will ever meet......... no harmi että että meikäläinen ei oo... kannattaa pysyä varuilla sillä meikäpojalla kaksi puolta... 1. mukava, ja 2. vitun psyko hullu... kannattaa näitten ''mukavien kaverien'' kävellä varpaillaan hissutellen... kyllä brassikengät alkaa kalkattamaan poispäin kun vastaan tule......... SUOMEN POJAT......... Put your middle fingers up Take a shot, throw it up and don't stop I'm, I'm, I'm living that life on the dark side!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING LEAAAAAAAAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! substraction
They seem like great musicians but it was pretty unbearable. 2 if I could have suppressed the vocals. 1.5 as-is
This is the second Sepultura album I’ve come across on this list. Hoping it will be the last. Not my favorite genre to say the least. But they must be wearing me down because I didn’t hate this as much as I did their Roots album.
Metal must be so hard on the lead singer's throat. Honestly the way metal bands sing is one of the reasons I'm not really into it. The other is that all the songs sound too similar, I can't tell them apart and an album ends up feeling like one hour-long song that I got bored of back at the beginning.
Can't say I know too many Brazilian metal groups, so this one caught me a tad by surprise. The lyrical content is usually the same throughout thrash/death metal (I feel) but it's generally overshadowed by the heavy guitar or, more notably here, the drum playing. The breakneck pace in which Igor Cavalera plays the drums throughout is almost mesmerizing. Rest of the album kind of blends together to me, though. Death metal has never really been my scene but I can appreciate the craft in moderation. I'm sure this album is more important in some music circles.
Not sure when the best time to listen to this would be? Probably as you descend into the pits of hell!
I can't even drink caffeine after lunch, because it'll keep me up too late, and I'm just supposed to listen to an hour of this? In all seriousness, this isn't my cup of tea. I prefer actual singing, rather than scream yelling.
I like the musical sounds but not the vocals. The 'yelling brashly' vocal style just isn't for me. 2.5