Re: PESTILENCE - RESURRECTED
Posted: 18. 03. 2009. 23:18
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A sadly totally uninspired return - 25%
Sad to hear such a great band return with such a self-parodic album ! Of course, if they manage to gather new fans with this well-produced, well-played and somehow « different » album (compared to today’s scene plagued with grind, blast beats only, hardcore and Meshuggah-wannabes bands), sure these « new fans » will discover something quite interesting.
But…
For the fans of the « original » Pestilence, the ones that have, like me, listened to their whole discography for years and are even listening to it nowadays, this self-imitation that is this new album is a real deception for what was some of the most interesting and awaited resurrection from this new trend of bands reforming wave…
The problem is quite simple : a whole half of this new material is not, by any mean, new as it relies on riffs from the band’s whole back catalogue ! The idea behind that might have been to be sure to please fans of their previous releases, but it’s totally ineffective as what is to be heard here sounds like a total lack of inspiration in offering something really « new ». Some riff-recyclings are so obvious you think that this or this part is just simply played with a new drummer !
Some of the material is interesting, the « new one » (« Devouring frenzy », « Fiend » even if they’re clearly meant to please « Spheres » fans), but on tracks such as « Horror detox » (« Lost souls »), « Hate suicide » (« Stigmatized » / « Prophetic revelations ») or « Neuro dissonance » (« Chemo therapy), the self-copying is so obvious it becomes really (and I mean it, « really ») boring. I don’t have all the band’s back riffing catalogue in mind, but I’m sure that carefully listening to it all would bring many many more references (some more obvious than others) to their previous material. A style is a style, self-parody is a shame.
The only four « honest » songs here are the three re-recorded versions and « Dehydrated (pt.2) », all the rest could have been titled « track X (pt.2) » too…
Sad
radi ovog cu bas da skinem album mada ce mi trebat 3-4 dana
A sadly totally uninspired return - 25%
Sad to hear such a great band return with such a self-parodic album ! Of course, if they manage to gather new fans with this well-produced, well-played and somehow « different » album (compared to today’s scene plagued with grind, blast beats only, hardcore and Meshuggah-wannabes bands), sure these « new fans » will discover something quite interesting.
But…
For the fans of the « original » Pestilence, the ones that have, like me, listened to their whole discography for years and are even listening to it nowadays, this self-imitation that is this new album is a real deception for what was some of the most interesting and awaited resurrection from this new trend of bands reforming wave…
The problem is quite simple : a whole half of this new material is not, by any mean, new as it relies on riffs from the band’s whole back catalogue ! The idea behind that might have been to be sure to please fans of their previous releases, but it’s totally ineffective as what is to be heard here sounds like a total lack of inspiration in offering something really « new ». Some riff-recyclings are so obvious you think that this or this part is just simply played with a new drummer !
Some of the material is interesting, the « new one » (« Devouring frenzy », « Fiend » even if they’re clearly meant to please « Spheres » fans), but on tracks such as « Horror detox » (« Lost souls »), « Hate suicide » (« Stigmatized » / « Prophetic revelations ») or « Neuro dissonance » (« Chemo therapy), the self-copying is so obvious it becomes really (and I mean it, « really ») boring. I don’t have all the band’s back riffing catalogue in mind, but I’m sure that carefully listening to it all would bring many many more references (some more obvious than others) to their previous material. A style is a style, self-parody is a shame.
The only four « honest » songs here are the three re-recorded versions and « Dehydrated (pt.2) », all the rest could have been titled « track X (pt.2) » too…
Sad
radi ovog cu bas da skinem album mada ce mi trebat 3-4 dana