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'Nekyia' by A Hill To Die Upon. My mom would not like this at all, no sireebob. :-D It's good, though, they seem to have improved from their first album with regards to technicality and make sure the building blocks of their song structures are stronger individually. Even the simple riffs have some cool stuff to them.

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'Rime' by A Hill To Die Upon. Muh. Maybe I just need to listen with fresh ears, but this album sounds pretty drawn-out. There's about maybe half of this that I like, and even the songs that are weak have good ideas, but it is really pissing me off that these riffs are sounding very similar and all go on for longer than they need to. Overall this band needs more work. Their single from 2013 seemed to at least be going in the right direction, and the promo track from the new album sounds OK. I'm going to go check out the new Hope For The Dying album, not that that promises to be much better.

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'In Isolation' by Hope For The Dying. Are these guys under some kind of contract that requires them to suck in at least one noticeable way? This album sounds like it could have been good if this guy had fixed his harsh vocals, but they're awful. Hell, even the clean vocals are decent but these harsh vocals just ruin absolutely everything. That's a bloody shame, because the leads and melodies on this are actually really nice, the technicality is good, the composition's nicely done and even the structure's not bad.

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'Iniquitous' by Hope For The Dying. So, I'm giving this another listen through and I think I have an immunity to the vocals now.

Not a bad song at all' date=' but it being 10 minutes long is brutal.[/quote'] I'm a prog head, it's manageable.
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Well' date=' I should have clarified, it's not just them but also people who have this general disdain for unblack. Not only that, but there's just a general belief that black metal is sort of 'too evil' for Christianity. The amusing thing about all this, of course, is that these same people will rag on about how evil Christianity is![/quote'] The biggest problem with most Christian metal is that it sets out to be a square peg in a round hole. I don't care so much about lyrics specifically, but the sentiment behind them is the same sentiment that should be behind the music, and positive lyrics about salvation and the love of god don't really have a place in an otherwise furious and hateful sounding song. It's forced, contrived, and insulting to both the ideals and philosophies you claim to represent, as well as the music your failing to communicate those feelings with. Black metal is about darkness, hatred, and the negative side of the metaphysical, all of that stuff exists within Christianity, so I don't know why more unblack bands don't explore those kinds of topics. Rainbows and unicorns don't belong in death metal anymore than charity and unconditional love, nor should that be what motivates death metal, and so on and so forth... This is why Christianity mixes with metalcore so well (some angst with a positive overall message), prog (usually intellectual, honest, and symbolic, but still positive messages), and doom metal (sorrow, mourning, pain, etc...). It's not that Christianity can't fit with extreme metal, but most Christians don't like to focus on the same degree of negativity, but there is plenty of negativity to talk about in the world that Christians can relate to. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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It's not like there's any shortage of fuel from the bible itself that could fuel extreme metal. One need only look at the old testament for countless examples of God's wrath. Revelations would also be a good book to inspire hateful music with christian underpinings. It is the obsession with positivity in christian music which tends to hurt it rather then assist it.

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Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home Well just the first 30 seconds. That song would be perfect if it was anyone else's vocals. Sent from my LGMS500 using Tapatalk
Dude. Coheed are awesome! The vocals took a good 2 years to grow on me; I hated them at first. But, you'll grow to love them if you stick at it :)
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Alice in Chains- Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Like I say, I think this album is lighter in tone as well as in lyrics. It's almost a given they won't reach the sheer filth and self-loathing that permeated their self-titled, but Black was still pretty dark; the heavy songs sounded pretty sinister with some genuinely crushing, clearly doom-inspired riffs, whilst the softer songs were pretty damn depressing (probably because they were still mourning Layne so much). Whereas, the heavier tracks on Devil (maybe with the exception of the title track and Hollow) are more kind of upbeat and groovy, whilst the softer songs sound almost cheery and even life-affirming at points (by AIC's standards anyway). The album as a whole just has a warmer, more human feel to me.

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