Suffocation - Blood Oath
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Artist: SuffocationEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Music Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
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Free Music Review: Reminds you of all that elements that made you love Suffocation in the first place
Hit: 5 Stars
Marking their 20th anniversary of being around (formed in 1989), Suffocation manages to release their best product since "Despise the Sun". You gotta give 'em credit for sticking around after all these years, while many a cookie cutter death metal bands have come and gone (sometimes the problem is, they don't go away.) So when I got the CD and saw the sticker with the quote, "Best thing they've done in ten years" I was skeptical because how many times have you heard/seen that on the album packaging only to find out that it is far from true? "Blood Oath" is a brilliant exception.
After re-forming after the post-late-90s breakup, Suffocation's output has left a lot to be desired. "Souls to Deny" was a hackneyed, poorly put together album made for the sake of putting out an album. The self-titled album of 2006 signaled something different, it displayed the fact that the band is willing to toy with their style and try different things (sometimes to the chagrin of their fans.) Ultimately, the last half of the last album took the overall product down a notch.
Here we find the band that has found their groove and feels right at home in their song writing ability. Guy Marchais works well with the band as opposed to clashing with it in prior efforts. The dual guitars of Marchais and Hobbes are a treat to be sure, but the booster in the reformed band was obviously Derek Boyer. The guy is well worth his pay delivering some of the best bass lines heard in a death metal album ever. Mike Smith has always been a wild card in Suffocation (odd since he's the founding member), sometimes delivering good performances and sometimes sticking to a rigid Morbid Angel type of drumming. I have to say though, this is his best drumming. The double bass with the quarter time on the bell in the opening track, to the genius beats and changes on "Cataclysmic Purification" -it's all busy, different and blends the styles of the entire Suffocation portfolio together well. Frank of course delivers a convincing performance on vocals. He doesn't do some of the multilayered growls that were heard on the last albums. This time around he opts for a more low-mid-range-intelligible vocal approach (although to call anything Frank does "mid-range" is somewhat disingenuous.)
The albums vision favors the progressive song over the more linear death metal approach. Think more "Pierced from Within" than "Effigy" or "Human Waste". Still though, there are fast songs, slower mid-tempo songs, and songs that go all over the place.
I don't have any problems with this album. Production is well done, the sound of all the instruments sounds good together. Derek Boyer's bass sometimes sounds "twangy" which might bother some, but overall it's a very even mix heavy on the low end and somewhat mellow at the high end.
Easily as good minute for minute as "Despise the Sun" or "Pierced from Within" were when they came out.
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U.S. pressing of the seminal New York Death Metal band's 2009 album includes two bonus tracks. In the relatively short but intense history of Extreme Metal, Suffocation are unique for fusing the technical with the percussive and single-handedly redefining the genre. They also represent the future of Metal as they continue to redefine brutality and the meaning of extreme with each album they release. Suffocation are the pioneers of New York Brutal Death Metal, and Blood Oath is a testament to their longevity. Blood Oath has the privilege of not only being a distinctively brutal album by the band that has been at the pinnacle of the genre for 20 years, but also of perfectly capturing the simmering anger of these times. The timeliness of this sound and the viability of this band make 2009 Suffocation's time to reignHard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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