Gorgoroth - Destroyer
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Free Music Review: Best of Both Worlds
Hit: 5 Stars
As a guitarist catching up on my Metal, these guys are a recent suprise. This album manages to follow the strict rules of Black while including enough variation and detail work to make tracks distinguishable from one another (a problem with some artists). The vocals have much more personality than most recent Metal acts - who cares if you can scream for forty minutes, dude?! The sound is amazingly filthy, lo res and harsh, another requirement of pure Black Metal. The drums don't fall into those alternating snare-bass spazzouts that are so unimpressive. You also get the kind of scary chord progressions one expects. In short, I think this is a great Black album, maybe the best I've ever heard (better even than Transylvanian Hunger). So if you prefer Immortal to Mastodon, this is where you need to drop your cash.Free Music Review: What is going on here?
Hit: 5 Stars
I have read many reviews and heard many comments by the "true" black metal fans on various websites totally belittling this album. So having heard this I didn't purchase it right away. Man, am I ashamed. This is one fine slab of black metal that will be in my CD player for days on end. The music is superb (I would expect nothing less of the band.) And sure, they experiment around here and there, but that doesn't detract from the sheer listening pleasure that this album provides. The vocals are sick as all hell, the production is a great blend (good enough to blast at extreme volume levels, but still holds that necro-tinny sound that Gorgoroth is known for.) Don't be fooled by what many say, this album is definitely worth every penny. My favorite track at this point is song 2, Open the Gates.Free Music Review: binsane
Hit: 5 Stars
ok when i first listened to this i thought that it wasnt thatinteresting...but then after listening to it a couple of times irealized that this album is insane! yes it is different than all other gorgoroths albums...but then again none of them sound the same...all i can say is turn this up all the way and listen to it over and over again....its like theres subliminal messages of evil...maybe this album is just to complex for the ... reveiwers...if you waht a gorgoroth album to hate..incipit sathanas.. horrible.horrible.horrible..only a few good tracks on that whole album... bye destroyer.Free Music Review: Good, but not my favorite Gorgoroth.
Hit: 4 Stars
One thing you can count on when putting on Destroyer is that it will wake you up. I've considered buying an alarm clock that plays music just to I could put the beginning of the title track on it to get my butt out of bed in the morning; it's just a lot of noise and screaming before, at about 30 seconds in, it becomes recognizable as a song. This is also the only track that Gaahl does the vocals for here, and he uses his brief appearance well.
"Open the Gates" is one of my favorite Gorgoroth songs ever. I probably say that about too many songs, but I mean it here. This, and a few songs on Under the Sign of Hell, especially, are the reason I think Pest is so awesome. The scream at 2:46 is just about the coolest thing I've ever heard. The guitars have always stood out for me as particularly excellent in this song also. They're quite fuzzy but there are some interesting melodies going on. The production is not exactly great but it doesn't really bother me at all here.
The sound effect on "The Devil, the Sinner and his Journey" strike me as somewhat goofy. T. Reaper does the vocals on this, which are interesting, but just sort of add to how chaotic and disjointed this album feels. It starts off really well, and they're nothing here I dislike, but it just doesn't feel like a coherent whole in the way that other Gorgoroth albums do. The fact of having four different vocalists on only a handful of songs doesn't help matters in this sense. I like all the songs though, especially the first two and "The Virginborn," which is slower and manages to be awesome for over 8 minutes. And have I mentioned yet in this paragraph how much I love Pest's vocals? I can't say anything really bad about this album, I like it, but it just doesn't feel cohesive to me as a whole, which is probably why I don't listen to it very often. Still, I don't think you can go wrong with any of Gorgoroth's albums, and it is definitely a worthwhile purchase, even if I like their other albums better.
Free Music Review: Very good album from Gorgoroth I'm very impressed.
Hit: 4 Stars
I would say that this album from Gorgoroth was pretty good and decent, if I hadn't recently listened to Twilight of the idols which I thought was a better album then I would have rated this higher than four stars. Anyway Gorgoroth is a very interesting and talented black metal group and unlike Darkthrone they can actually play thier instruments, this album has a very harsh and raw sound to it and has many blast beats like in the first song Destroyer which just blasts of with riffs that start soaring to incredible heights and has an almost piercing sound, this track is very heavy it's like having your ears bleed. Open the gates was also a great song and you could tell that there is an industrial element to the song however its not over the top like Dimmu Borgir. Also check out the long and epic track Virginborn this is a very good song which has some great drumming, I was very impressed with this group even though I'm not a huge fan of black metal these guys somehow changed my mind about this subgenre of extreme metal music.