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Rating: I am about to review one of my greatest disappointments in the musical field. I have always admired Dismember, who nonetheless were one of the founding bands of the Death Metal movement, and with their raw and "thrashy" style, they were unfortunately an underrated reality of the genre.
This CD's cover inspired me a lot, indeed, I might be childish and foolish, but to me, a cover featuring a giant robot with chainsaw arms shooting missiles on a field of skulls is a symbol of quality, or at least of anger. Indeed, this album is angry, but that's not enough. The first track I Saw Them Die begins with a slow and raw riff, which I could understand since this is Raw Death Metal. However, this album is extremely flat, devoid of truly noteworthy ideas, melodic solos aren't enough, and above all, the terrible screams of the singer are rather irritating.
Don't get me wrong, I have always liked the primordial and raw growl of the vocalist, but in this album, he doesn't use it, he just yells in a dull and ignorant way, filling the entire album with boredom, as it seems like he’s always saying the same things, in the same tone of voice. Frankly, I think this album was hurriedly made, with raw production and not excellently done. The riffs are all almost identical and repeat endlessly, in short, it is significantly inferior compared to many of the band's works.
I don't have much to say about this album because unfortunately, it told me nothing, an angry but inconsistent album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
05 To the Bone (03:14)
In this mud of lies I crawl
Emptiness is burning me
Blind hatred
Drives me to extremes
Thorns of lies
Pierce my mind
The bitter truth
Is all I find
Black is all I see
Within these walls of pain
If I can't find myself
I'm better of dead
I can't forgive
Once given trust turns to disgust
I'm lost in misery
I'm deep into pain
Frustration and anger
To The Bone it eats
Hate is all I feel
I can't forget
The wounds of betrayal still
Bleeding fresh
06 Wardead (02:27)
Lieproducing, crime-saluting
Humiliating, segregating
Life-eating, gun-feeding
Hypocrisy, society
Warscene overcrowded
Loss of civil liberties
Life spilled like blood
Misanthropical atrocities
Warmachine is discipline
Furiously killing clean
The power addiction
A lethal infliction
Raped by bullets
Innocent dead
Evidence elimination
Strategy spread
Wardead through bloodshed
Face-up, forgotten corpses unburied
Wardead
08 Collection by Blood (03:41)
[l: Sennebaeck/Kaerki, m: Sennebaeck/Kaerki]
Colder than flesh
Stronger than thought
I dance with the demon
And your dream ends dark
Hunting at night
Blood is my art
Red in sight
I'm killing in parts
A pull of the trigger
And then you're gone
Recoil kicks back
My work is done
Blood sweet blood
I follow my needs
Desecrate your carcass
And watch as it bleeds
Past killing
A season turned in red
Past killing
The art of a man
A soft gentle move
Powered by hungry flesh
Death will be, blood I'll see
Dreams can't last forever;
I'm forcing death to be
Watch you bleed
09 Casket Garden (03:36)
Inherit the nightmares - can't put them to sleep
Rainstorm of chaos awaiting release
Speaking the truth - considered a crime
A world with murder on its mind
Believe; be deceived - a wound never closing
We're racing the rats - humanity's losing
Under the gun of a nation imploring
Machine infected system controlling
In the casket garden
Bonewhite, bloodred
In the casket garden
Dealing with the dead
The blaming days are over - too late
Falling into the arms of hate
Witness the execution of mind
Feeding another killing kind
In the casket garden
Bonewhite, bloodred
In the casket garden
Dealing with the dead
In the casket garden
Spiders in the web
In the casket garden
Just hate and tread
10 Nenia (04:39)
I feel the tunes of sorrow
Filling my heart
With tears in my eyes
I watch my whole life fall
Apart
Endless days of mourning
I try to move on
Grief is my reality
My hope forever gone
With a smile I hide
Dark emotions deep inside
No matter how I try
All becomes another lie
I look into the sky
Waiting to die
Take me away from here
To a place without fear
Come sweet death
Let me sleep forever
Come sweet death
Life slowly fade away
Nothing more to give
Nothing more to say
No more will to live
Dressed in mourning
I shed my last tear
Through sadeness
I lived my life
Finally the end is here.
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By Elfo Cattivone
You can tell they have fun playing this music. Music made to break everything and nothing more without any pretense of seriousness.
Songs like “On Frozen Fields” and “Collection of Blood” are small masterpieces that will make the blood boil for anyone infected by the rabid plague of heavy metal.
