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Title: Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 11/17/2006
Date of purchase: 11/17/2006
Number of tracks: 11
Duration: 43:41 minutes
My tips:
Daylight Dies
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Came out today, bought today in the morning. Great that I had to study today only in the noon.
By the way do you remember my first blog entry on logwave.com? It was also the beginning of this category of mine. It began with "Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache", with their previuos LP.
To say a few words to the new album: In my opinion it's a good one. It's totally Killswitch Engage. And that's the different to some other albums in the youngest past. There are no unexpected sound experiments on this album. You just get what you expect.
I only have to critisize that this record seems to be a bit monotonous. But that's often what I think when I listen to a new record for the first few times, and only after some days of listening I recognize the details and the quality of each song. So for now I gladly keep listening (and rockin'). ;)
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Title: Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
Label: Maverick Recording Company (a Warner Music Group)
Release date: 10/27/2006
Date of purchase: 10/28/2006
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 50:32 minutes
My tips:
Hole In The Earth
Combat
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
First thing I recognized was the album cover which is very similar to the one of “Deftones - Around The Fur” which counts to my TOP5 metal LPs. But the sound is different. In fact the album is what the woman on the front cover expresses: very sensual! I don’t know how I could describe it otherwise. All the hardness is taken out once again. Maybe more than ever before. But that are the Deftones. First I wanted to rate this CD 3 of 5, but I knew that sooner or later this record would be gripping. And now this point is reached. I can recommend this album to fans and those who want to become or/and those who just like slow rock music.
Especially interesting and well done as well is the tender instrumental track in the middle of the song list, “U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,Select,Start”, which is called like some kind of cheat in a Nintendo video game. But till now I don’t know in which one. Maybe one of you does..? ;)
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Title: Mushroomhead – Savior Sorrow
Label: Filthy Hands/Megaforce Records
Release date: 10/06/2006
Date of purchase: 10/10/2006
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 49:12 minutes
My tips:
12 Hundred
Just Pretending
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Finally a new Mushroomhead LP has been released. After I wanted to buy a piece of music of them since a few months, I saw by chance that there’s a new one coming out. On the release day I listened to it and I was quick sure: There’s no way to avoid this album. Under certain circumstances I couldn’t buy it that Friday, but the store had only one copy of it. All the other stores didn’t have the CD at all. So I let them reserve it for me and caught it up the next Tuesday. First thing you recognize is the album cover. It shows two pictures in one, a silhouette of a woman in the forward and a part of a face, where that woman figure is part of – it is 3-D. Makes me think on a “Tool” cover a bit. The music on this record is pretty cool and Mushroomhead still got its almost unmistakable sound. But I have to say that some tracks became slower and more thoughtful, others didn’t have that symphony and piano sound combined with this special style of the shouting/singing mixture anymore. To say it in other words: You won’t find a “Sun Doesn’t Rise” on this record (although “Just Pretending” gets close to). If you had had the CD would have easily got 5 of 5 credits by me. But it still creates its own cosmos and it does great, so I’m really anything but disappointed.
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Title: Trivium – The Crusade
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 10/06/2006
Date of purchase: 10/09/2006
Number of tracks: 13
Duration: 57:34 minutes
My tips:
Entrance Of The Conflagration
Anthem (We Are The Fire)
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Finally it is out, the album I’ve awaited most in the last few months. I listened to it on the release Friday in store and bought it the Monday after. And I had to recognize that it is true what people have written: On this record we don’t hear Trivium anymore, we hear Metallica. While in the past you could only see the influence of Metallica on the clothing and t-shirts when Trivium played live on stage, now the music also sounds like the same. A trip back to the 80s. We haven’t heard something like this since “Master Of Puppets”, since 20 years ago. So it isn’t bad at all, but it’s not “our” Trivium anymore. They changed the great Trivium sound into the Metallica one, which made them immortal once. But the point is that they aren’t Metallica. I expected some more “Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr”, I was looking forward to more Trivium power, and not to the sound of another band. Even if the band says that they’ve found their sound now, I think that they are popular for the music we could hear on their last two albums and that’s what people want to listen to. This one starts directly with a punch in the face, no great intro this time. Hard action from at the beginning. Then the listener can listen to a mix of some other bands, mostly Metallica as I just mentioned before. But not only. “Anthem (We Are The Fire)” reminds me also on Hammerfall, and “Entrance Of The Conflagration” sounds a bit like – yes – the http://www.logwave.com/src/index.php?path=/showArticle&aid=BUXZ9ENNBF47WFU7N12P69AACX39DXYE&id=BM6U7XPRTJWUY558JNMCLS7DGMGDKG3Y>ROADDUCKS ;-) . With “The Crusade”, the last song on this record, we get the instrumental part that was missing at the beginning delivered at the end. An over 8 minutes long experimental guitar track. So again: the album is anything but bad, but I miss the old Trivium metal. That’s why it loses at least one of the five credits.
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Title: Scar Symmetry – Pitch Black Progress
Label: Nuclear Blast
Release date: 05/07/2006
Date of purchase: 08/08/2006
Number of tracks: 13
Duration: 59:24 minutes
My tips:
The Illusionist
Dreaming 24/7
Oscillation Point
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
What got “Scar Symmetry” and “In Flames” in common? Both are from Sweden and both have signed at Nuclear Blast, the label on the Swabian Mountains in southern Germany. And it seems that both do great metal music. First time I heard of that band was on a gratis demo disc that was distributed at an “In Flames” concert. The track on this disc was “The Illusionist”, the first one of their new album, which didn’t hit the streets yet at this time. When I saw the album a few weeks later in that nice looking limited edition for cheap money in store I needed to buy this one. And I wasn’t disappointed about this. Every song sprays its own mystic atmosphere with some kind of anger within. It’s a permanent change between so called dark growls and very clean singing. Even the instrumental epic part of “The Kaleidoscopic God” reminds me on Dimmu Borgir. All in one a varied album, although the basic principle is always the same, but the execution sounds different from song to song.
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Title: Tool – 10,000 Days
Label: Tool Dissectional (distributed by SONY BMG Music Entertainment)
Release date: 04/28/2006
Date of purchase: 04/28/2006
Number of tracks: 11
Duration: 75:52 minutes
My tips:
Vicarious
The Pot
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
First of all Tool is famous for its CD covers and case creations. This time the purchaser got a special gimmick, too. Glasses are integrated into the cardboard case, and inside you will find a fixed booklet with pictures you can watch through these glasses to see them in 3-D. It’s like a small theatre where Tool plays once more, like in many of its music video clips and on the screens live on stage, among other things with the visualization of human anatomy.
As we also know Tool, the “L” in the shortcut LP fits more than in the most other CDs. LONG player is really the right expression. With a duration of almost one hour and sixteen minutes but only 11 tracks you will get the full Tool feeling once more (well, almost, if you read below). If you keep in mind that one of the songs is only a bridge part with close to one minute playtime, you won’t be surprised that the others are even longer. I guess the average there is about seven to eight minutes each song. The two longest tracks on this album are over 11 minutes! Just as we know Tool listening to its art is like an opera. But with the difference that often the singing is part of the guitars! Tool is just electrifying. The music is such deep that once you are inside it’s really hard to come out again. Tool is a drug. Tool lets you feel all of your senses and makes you go inside yourself.
However, one thing changed while comparing older masterpieces with this album. While in the past the tension was getting bigger and bigger till the end of the six or more minutes songs, and at the highest point near the end usually there was a kind of explosion of all that tension, this explosion is missing now. Once it was a fact that gave “Sober” and “Aenema” for example the last decisive great touch. In this LP sometimes a bit of that tension is missing yet, and if it is there, there’s no “big bang” in Tool manner, except in the opening song “Vicarious”. That’s what makes this album in my eyes not a top rated one (maybe I just don’t understand the deepness this time and can’t see the whole thing), which the older ones easily made, but all in one it’s still an interesting music experiment which only Tool could do. You won’t find ANY comparable band in that business!
So because I don’t give half points (3.5), and the tendency goes more to 4…
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Title: Soil – True Self
Label: DRT Entertainment
Release date: 03/23/2006
Date of purchase: 04/12/2006
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 43:31 minutes
My tips:
Fight For Life
One Last Song
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Here it is, the 3rd album of Soil, but this time with a new vocalist and under a new label. However, the band still presents us solid material. You will recognize soon that the songs seem to be linked to each other. So the whole record is like one whole ballad, very powerful with a lot of energy, but on the other hand between making it and giving it up. The band describes it with the following lines:
“this FIGHT FOR LIFE continues
If i choose to GIVE IT UP, then I trust
that you will be there for to PICK ME UP.
This is THE LAST CHANCE to show
Our TRUE SELF.
I hope that you can HEAR ME,
Or FOREVER DEAD will be.
I will never LET GO,
I will keep searching UNTIL IT’S OVER.
To be this JADED it’s a wonder that
I never THREW IT AWAY. When I do go
I want to leave the world this ONE LAST SONG.”
(the bold printed terms are the names of the 12 songs on this record in the regular order)
An interesting thing is that you will interpret some of these terms when you read them in this text not the same as if you expect them to mean when they’ll stand alone. And in a way Soil in fact fights till the end on this record. And that’s exactly what I thought by listening to this album. Fighting till the end, for life - maybe the oldest human attitude.
Yet, you won’t find a high spirits “Halo” or an “On My Own” on this CD, but maybe because they wouldn’t fit into the melancholic context anyway.
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Title: Trivium – Ascendancy (Special Limited Tour Edition)
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 03/14/2005
Date of purchase: 04/12/2006
Number of tracks: 12 (+ 2 non-album tracks on the bonus disc)
Duration: 55:18 minutes (+ 9:00 minutes)
My tips:
Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
Like Light To The Flies
Personal rating: 5/5
My sum:
If I would have written this blog the days after I bought this CD, I would have rated it 4 of 5. Nowadays I can’t understand why. When I listen to the album now I can just say “oh my f***ing goodness”. The album begins with a pretty sweet acoustic intro that lets you await much (similar to the one of Bullet For My Valentine). And here it comes: the record blasts you away. Each song gets better and even better whenever I listen to it now. In my car mostly this CD is rotating.
We’ve got many shouting parts on this disc but always mixed up with the right dose of clean singing, underlain by great melodies and of course we have many well done guitar solos. Especially the 3rd track “Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr” is a metal orgasm. No wonder why they play it always as the last song on their concerts. I remember RaR festival this year while my chain around my neck was rotating with the double speed my head did ;) .
Another fact worth mentioning about this purchase was that this album came up with a limited bonus CD titled “Special Limited Tour Edition”. The description of the online store where I bought this masterpiece didn’t say anything about the bonus disc, so it was a nice surprise for the same cheap price. This bonus disc includes two non-album tracks and the music videos of the best three tracks on the regular album. So I don’t really bother that a few months later another limited edition of “Ascendancy” with a bonus DVD and a pimped cover (but no non-album tracks) was released.
But with or without the bonus disc: 5/5 anyway!
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Title: The Best of PANTERA - Reinventing Hell (CD + DVD)
Label: Warner Music
Release date: 09/29/2003
Date of purchase: 03/02/2006
Number of tracks: 16
Duration: 77:05 minutes
My tips:
Cowboys From Hell
Cemetery Gates
Mouth For War
Revolution Is My Name
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
This CD got everything a best-of set should have: The greatest tracks from all Pantera albums and therefore a long duration. Real fans of the band might say that at least every song from their second studio album "Vulgar Display Of Power" should be on a best of, but I guess the most important songs are on this disc and the producers took a good choice.
Whatever, the CD starts with the opener and Pantera's first single in this band constellation "Cowboys From Hell" (1990). I havn't listened to many other songs in my life before to that it's such fun to play the air guitar and headbang at once. I can't just listen to that powerful song, I need to feel it.
The bonus DVD contains 12 music videos including two open air live acts of the early 90's where Pantera plays in front of a huge crowd. But what means "live" in a single of the guys from Texas.. many music videos of Pantera are based on live footage. You can see there as many stage dives than in 100 concerts of other bands all together. Enjoy the hour of video clips!
The booklet is also a cool part of this disc set. It tells the band's history and introduces into the LPs of Pantera and the songs on this CD.
It's a pitty that Pantera doesn't exist anymore - but it should come still more horrible: Metal legend "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott at the guitar, idol for many and friend to many other artists, and his brother Vinnie Paul who played the drums at Pantera founded a new band, "Damage Plan" (who are on the soundtrack of the movie "The Punisher", for example). But at the beginning of a Damage Plan concert on 8th December in 2004, a man jumped onto the stage and shot Dimebag dead, pretended with the words "You broke up Pantera ... you ruined my life ...". The ex-soldier also killed three other people before he could be shot himself by a police-man.
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Title: In Flames - Come Clarity (CD + DVD)
Label: Nuclear Blast ("Schwäbische Alb")
Release date: 02/03/2006
Date of purchase: 02/03/2006
Number of tracks: 13
Duration: 48:04 minutes
My tips:
Take This Live
Crawl Through Knives
Versus Terminus
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
After I have missed to buy any old In Flames LP, although I like their songs and the band, I felt like it was my duty to purchase this one right at the release day.
And this CD is a joy. It starts powerful with "Take This Life" and its great chorous. Only the ending may sound a bit strange. It's unexpected abrupt like a few other songs on the album, almost as it would be kind of incomplete.
For the track "Dead End" the five guys from Sweden had the help of their blonde fellow-countrywoman Lisa Miskovsky, who is yet very popular in her home country and lends her voice to that song.
If you like melodic metal, part fast part slow, and shrieking guitars, then I highly recommend you this album.
On the DVD that comes up with the CD you can watch the In Flames performing the whole LP in their studio room, expect for the last track "Your Bedtime Stoy Is Scaring Everyone".
The booklet is also interesting. It is a single folded paper that contains all the lyrics in hand-written styles and some nice drawings, like the man on the album cover, who holds his heart in his hand which he has pulled out of his body.
I have all the reason really to look forward to the In Flames concert on 13th April in a town 15 car-minutes away from the village I live. Because I've seen them at "Rock am Ring" in 2005 I can say that these artists are really impressive when they perform live. Every song sounds different as the album versions, still more melodic, more sung, but still in a way that you can recognize the unique core of each song. Unbelievable great!
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Title: Flaw - Endangered Species
Label: Universal Records
Release date: 06/07/2004
Date of purchase: 01/14/2006
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 49:58 minutes
My tip:
Medicate
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
First of all I got to say that I didn't listen to that record as much as to other CDs, because I bought it together with the latest Slipknot double-live-LP, which is continual rotating in my sound system.
But I can say yet that Endangered Species is a really well done record. Although I miss the heavy (and melancholy in one) songs from the first album "Through The Eyes" like my most favorite Flaw-masterpiece "Only The Strong", the more quiet ballades on this one are still commendable. Not bad.
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Title: Slipknot - 9.0: Live
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 10/28/2005
Date of purchase: 01/14/2006
Number of tracks: 24
(disc 1: 12; disk 2: 12)
Duration: 118:10 minutes (55:53 + 62:17 mins)
My tips:
The Blister Exists
Before I Forget
Left Behind
Everything Ends
Duality
Spit It Out
People = Shit
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
„Ladies and gentlemen!
Due to unforseen circumstances Slipknot will not be peforming this evening!“
With that voice this live record begins. The angry crowd shouts. The atmosphere boils over. Suddenly nine masked guys from Des Moines, Iowa, enter the stage. Bullsh!t, Slipknot IS performing that evening! Two hours of heavy sound are awaiting us.
When I first listened to this album I almost had tears in my eyes, because it reminds me to the excellent Slipknot live act at "Rock am Ring 2005". It had been 1:00 am when they performed that night. It was getting cold and it had started to rain a bit. I took my t-shirt off to have something half-way dry after the concert. I stood somewhere between row 10 and 20 with the upper part of my body naked. Real maggot-like. I ensured that I had enough space around me to headbang :) . Some that had seen me during the concert might have called me „out of control“, I call it „feeling the music“.
All the great tracks of the band’s albums this live act is mixed of are on this double CD 'cept for "My Plague" (it's the "Resident Evil" movie soundtrack, too). Even the drum solo of Joey Jordison is included, where he plays the drums girdled into his chair half overhead on a raised and tilted rotating platform. Although band member #8, Corey, doesn’t shout as powerful in "Left Behind", which is one of my fav songs by Slipknot, it sounds pretty cool, especially when you keep in mind that this is still a two hour LIVE concert. On the other hand this is maybe the major critical point: The album is that long that Corey can’t hold the level of his notorious voice during the whole live act.
But no doubt my most favorite track on this double CD is "Spit It Out". I suppose that at "Rock am Ring" I was the very first of the 40,000 people who went down on his knees while "Spit It Out" was played (I was yet familar to the following scenary because of the live DVD "Disasterpieces"). Finally the whole crowd in the seperated inner area also went down as I did just to jump da f*** up again with me when Joey and Corey took us "home". It was an unforgettable experience.
This record is like a symbol of one of the best concerts to me I visited last year!
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Title: Godsmack - Faceless
Label: Universal Records
Release date: 04/22/2003
Date of purchase: 12/24/2005
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 47:26
My tips:
Straight Out Of Line
Re-Align
Personal rating: 5/5
My sum:
This CD has been on my wishlist for a very long time. Since the official soundtrack of the movie "Scorpian King" with wrestler The Rock, "I Stand Alone" by Godsmack, I kept a closer look at this record. Finally I bought it and I didn't regret at all. It was much better than I had it in mind. The songs are really awesome and especially the voice of singer Sully Erna makes the Godsmack sound unique in the genre. Maybe Metallica is the only band that could be compared to the voice of Godsmack, even if Godsmack will never reach the level of Metallica, of course. But with the great guitars and the varied melodies every song of this record sticks in the head. No doubt they did a very good job with this one.
Because of Godsmack will release a new record in a few months, the probability is high that I could see them on tour this year, as I hope.
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Title: Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine (Limited Edition incl. DVD)
Label: Savage Messiah Music
Release date: 08/22/2005
Date of purchase: 12/24/2005
Number of tracks: 11
Duration: 49:08
My tips:
Enter The Machine
Taking Back My Soul
Slaves Of Yesterday
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Arch Enemy is a band that makes really heavy music, although the intro of this album doesn't show this aspect. That intro "Enter The Machine" is an instrumental masterpiece that is almost worth this purchase alone. But then we are throwed totally into the world of Arch Enemy. Pure metal and lot's of screaming. It sounds as someone has released a demon. First it made me think of "The Exorcist". Hard to believe that in fact a woman is responsible for the vocals of this band's songs!
The hardness refers to the whole album, but it is loosen regularly by instrumental parts.
The bonus disc is a mini DVD. It's coming up with the actual music video "Nemesis" and two live act videos.
"Doomsday Machine" is a solid album with dense atmosphere.
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Title: KoRn - See You On The Other Side
Label: Virgin Records
Release date: 12/02/2005
Date of purchase: 12/02/2005
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 61:08 minutes
My tips:
Twisted Transistor
Personal rating: 2/5
My sum:
As not expected another way I went to a local store at the release day of the new KoRn album. I guess I stood in front of the CD for 30 minutes. But not to pre-listening but only to decide which version I should take. It was totally clear to me that I would buy any of them. I had the choice between the regular version and an enhanced edition in a godlike looking box including a second CD with 3 bonus tracks and two more versions of "Twisted Transistor" plus two live act videos. In the end I decided for the normal version because the other one cost the double money and I did already spend much money on CDs the weeks before.
The album itself starts with that first single taken from the LP, Twisted Transistor. A fresh new track, that is also played regularly on a German techno radio channel in another version that has to be on the single I guess. It let me hope of one more fantastic KoRn record, although they have now one less guitarist on board. But what comes after that is very disappointing! I own all 6 KoRn albums that came out before this one (I just didn't buy the "Greatest Hits Vol.1" because I had all the hits on the albums), but "See You On The Other Side" is worst. It just goes a boring way with slow melodies and no imaginative hard guitar riffs as we usually know them from KoRn. After every song I thought that now a real heavy burner has to come, an exploding grenade. But there wasn't. Not a single one in the following hour.. Also the famous bagpipe of leader Jonathan Davis sounds liveless and uninspired for the very first time on a KoRn record. I really miss the power on this record. So I might say that I am kind of glad that I did't take the more expensive version of the record.
Since they are coming to the next "Rock am Ring" festival I am excited which playlist they are going to perform there, becuase on this LP isn't much that would fit. I hope they will choose their songs right. The last concert of them I visited last year was namely ownage.
Maybe I only rated that album still "2", because KoRn counts to my Top-5 bands.
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Title: System Of A Down - Hypnotize (DualDisc Edition)
Label: Sony BMG
Release date: 11/18/2005
Date of purchase: 11/18/2005
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 39:48 minutes
My tips:
Hypnotize
Tentative
Holy Mountains
Soldier Side
Personal rating: 5/5
My sum:
It's hard to count all official emails i received saying that the new record of SOAD, my most favorite band, would be released on 22nd November. But then on 18th November I saw the glory message at different online shops in the internet. It were just 2 numerals that let my eyes glow: The album hit stores today, on 18th! Immediately I catched the phone to call some music stores. Every single one confirmed that date. They've got it yet!
Yet one month before you could listen to the title track in full length at SOAD's homepage. Since that I couldn't wait to finally have it. I needn't to prelisten before purchase. I got every SOAD LP and I know the high quality of everyone of them. And in the end it is like every great record: it's getting better and better the more you listen to it - this one as well!
I still remember that a girlfriend of mine had her birthday party that weekend. And when I walked into the party room with the new SOAD in my hands I was like a hero to my friends who saved the party or brought it to boil over, because all of them thought the CD would be released the week after that as the official webpage and the newsletters said! :D
In fact the CD is such great words can't explain. In the meanwhile every song is a hit to me. And with "Soldier Side" the double album "Mezmerize"/"Hypnotize", as it can be seen, ends genius. It sounds like the end of a great saga, the moment for that I have waited 7 month from Mezmerize to Hypnotize to experience.
It may differ a bit from the other two albums and the b-sides of "Steal This Album!" - I possess all of them - and the concerts of SOAD (I visited one of them) have now got an interesting alternate electronical touch, but it's still or even more then ever before music that makes sense. The lyrics and the content of the songs is the frightening truth and critisism with sense. Politically, sentimentally and spiritually. And once more producer Rick Rubin did his part to shape that treasure of music.
And this DualDisc makes even more fun, because you can put it into your CD player on the one side, but if you turn the disc you can put it into a DVD player to get involved into the DVD side. The journey begins with a short nice intro before "Hypnotize" is awaiting you at the main screen. There you have access to the entire album again in enhanced stereo, two music videos and the making of of recording the double album.
System Of A Down, a band that puts some of their songs for free download together with some of their music videos on their internet page, a band that deals with problems, a band that gives benefiz concerts, a band that donates some of their profit to injured people, kids and others that need the money more.
5 of 5 for sure!
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Title: Rammstein - Rosenrot (Limited Edtion incl. DVD)
Label: Universal Music
Release date: 10/28/2005
Date of purchase: 10/28/2005
Number of tracks: 11
Duration: 48:08 minutes
My tips:
Rosenrot
Stirb nicht vor mir (Don't Die Before I Do)
Hilf mir
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Of course I catched this CD like the album before ("Reise, Reise") right at the release date. And of course this one has got 11 tracks like every other Rammstein LP. Most of the songs had even been written when "Reise, Reise" hit stores one year before (I visited the "Reise, Reise" world tour two times in half a year, once at the tour opening concert in Mannheim and once at an open air festival near Lake Constance/Germany. It's a 'must seen'.).
I didn't expect anything else of Rosenrot: this album is one more incredible album of that Germans from Berlin, and one more excellent of the common metal releases in autumn. Each song is great in it's own way and no one sounds like another one on this record.
And that limited edition features moreover a bonus DVD (all for regular CD price) that contains 3 live performances taken from the upcoming DVD featuring Rammstein on tour 2005. Playtime: 14:59 minutes. Real HOT!
Maybe I should have rated that CD 5 of 5, but still one thing is missing. A real track for heavily headbanging such as "Du hast" or "Ich will". But it should be also clear that there could never be another "Ich will". Such fantastic songs can't be copied, and maybe that's good in a way. So let's say that it would have been 5 credits if there wasn't the unbeatable album "Mutter". There Rammstein showed that an (almost) perfect record like "Rosenrot" can still be topped by a "more perfect" one. So it's 4 of 5.
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Title: Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison (Limited Edtion)
Label: Gun Records Label Group (a division of SONY BMG)
Release date: 09/30/2005
Date of purchase: 10/20/2005
Number of tracks: 14
Duration: 57:08 minutes
My tips:
Hand Of Blood
Her Voice Resides
All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
Personal rating: 5/5
My sum:
Actually I walked into the shop with the aim to buy the latest Chimaira LP. But when I was on my way to the money-chest, I saw the brandnew Bullet For My Valentine Album. Because they were a term to me, I just wanted to listen into the CD to find out which band sticks behind this name. And my only thought was "Holy 5#!7". I loved that album from the first moment on. It's just killer. It begins with an incredible instrumental intro with cellos by Apocalyptika. Also every following song definitely rocks. One hour of fast nu-metal with lots of great hit-suspected melodies. I needed this LP, I had to buy it. So I did. And no way to regret this purchase.
And this edition is also coming up with a bonus track (#13), 2 music video clips of the first singles taken from that album and behind the scenes footage.
When I look back it is a pitty that I couldn't admire their live act at "Rock am Ring 2005", because of a parallel Killswitch Engage concert on another stage. I've heard now that the British newcomers are still a level higher when they perform the songs live.. awwh hell, does it could be even better than on that record?!
No question: 5 of 5 points!
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Title: Chimaira - Chimaira (Ltd. Blackbox 2 CD Edition)
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 08/08/2005
Date of purchase: 10/20/2005
Number of tracks:
disc 1: 10; disc 2: 9
Duration: 100:04 minutes (59:07 + 40:57 mins)
My tips:
Nothing Remains
Power Trip (Live)
Down Again (Live)
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
At the beginning I wasn't sure about purchasing a CD of Chimaira, because it is no secret that they do pretty hard music. But on the other hand I have just listened to some masterpieces of them such as "Down Again" or "Army Of Me" which was on the Freddy vs. Jason Soundtrack. So I pre-listened twice to the CD in store. But then I found that double disc special edition for the same price as the regular version with the 1st CD only that contains the new album. And as I knew I couldn't do much wrong anyway by buying a CD of a band that is under contract at Roadrunner Records! And this album starts great. But later many songs sound similar with not much variation, just hard. However on the 2nd disc there are 7 live tracks of the best Chimaira songs, which makes the powerful bonus disc with over 40 minutes play-time even better than the new album itself on disc 1. The live tracks are taken from the actual Chimaira DVD "The Dehumanizing Process" that was recorded at a concert in Holland in 2003. So of course the scene where the frontleader, also known as "Metal Moses", parts the crowd right in half just to let them crash together again like the waves of the red sea, doesn't miss.
Because of that great musical experience by listening to the bonus CD I have no bad conscience by giving the album 4 of 5 stars, although the new album itself needs some time to convince. Hopefully I will be able to see the band performing live some day, maybe already at the next "Rock am Ring", Germany.
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Title: Papa Roach - Getting Away With Murder (Tour Edition) [re-released enhanced CD]
Label: Geffen Records
Release date: 06/06/2005
Date of purchase: 08/10/2005
Number of tracks: 15 (+ 2 music videos)
Duration: 48:11 minutes
My tips:
Getting Away With Murder
Scars
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
It was a lucky chance that I bought this CD. Well, in fact I don't know why I haven't bought this LP earlier (1st release was on 08/30/2004), because I still own the first two albums since their individual releases I guess. But then I walked through a store that day in october and I saw this album in that enhanced edition I have just read of in the internet the day before. It contains 3 bonus tracks, two music videos and a making of of this album that are not on the standard edition of the CD. And the best thing was: it was marked with the half price of a regular CD. Who could say "no" then?
The album is fast and slow, a bit hard, a bit soft, full of feeling. Maybe the songs didn't have the potential of the ones at the debut album "Infest", but it is definitely Papa Roach.
I saw the band performing live for two times. They have still some kind of inspiration and they just rock.
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Title: Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Label: Reprise Records (A Warner Music Group Company)
Release date: 09/19/2005
Date of purchase: 09/20/2005
Number of tracks: 14
Duration: 56:28 minutes
My tips:
Ten Thousand Fists
Deify
Personal rating: 4/5
My sum:
Because it was so cheap, I bought it together with the Killswitch LP, one day after the release. No seriously: I would have bought it in any case, because I love the music of Disturbed and I like that album since the first listening. Yet I think their two predecessor albums are a bit better. This brandnew one is more slowly, which, however, hasn't to mean that it is bad. In my opinion it is just still great. 4 of 5 stars. Hope to see them performing live this year.
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With this blog I wanna open a new blog category of mine. It is called "My latest CDs" and features a feedback about the latest music discs I've bought. As you will recognize music is a big part in my life. It shall give you a little overview of what I am listening to. Because of many new CD releases of some pretty good bands and the cheap offers stores and online shops had during the last months, this category could become expansive :) .
And maybe you will find some of your favorite CDs again, if u like the harder kind of music. :)
Nuff said, let's start:
Title: Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache (Special Double-Disc Edition)
Label: Roadrunner Records
Release date: 02/28/2005
Date of purchase: 09/20/2005
Number of tracks:
disc 1: 12; disk 2: 6 (+ 2 music videos)
Duration: 65:11 minutes (42:36 + 22:35 mins)
My tips:
When Darkness Falls
Rose Of Sharyn
Irreversal
My Last Serenade (Live)
Personal rating: 5/5
My sum:
For the first time I could listen to a part of this album when I watched the splatter movie "Freddy vs. Jason" in movie theater. "When Darkness Falls" is played during the credits. Then I bought the soundtrack of the movie, and now I also own the Killswitch LP. I just couldn't say no when I saw this edition for small money.
And my impression of this LP is just: "Wow"! I still discover new favorite tracks on this double disc. It is perfect to perform the air guitar - my favorite instrument :) - and to headbang as well. I like the speed of the pretty hard metal tracks.
Beyond it the second disc features 3 live tracks that are as good as I could remember the band from their concert I visited at the biggest German open air music fetsival, "Rock am Ring", in 2005! Of course my favorite track of the band, "My Last Serenade", is on that CD as a live version. And with that voice it is almost better than the standard version, in every case even harder.
I am even glad that I had once hesitated to buy the regular edition which was already released in May 2004, so I could now buy this one.
For the rest the booklet is designed nicely and contains all the lyrics of the regular album (disc 1).
I just have to give this CD 5 of 5 stars!
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