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Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral, via Soundcloud Um. It sucks so far. Nick's vocals are weak and croaky and the riffs have been boring.
Yeah it does. On one the Metal sites facebook page they posted a song and asked opinions on it. Curiously I listened. I was bashed for saying that it was a big no, he sounded like he was choking his way through the song and that maybe the next singer will be better lol
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Yeah it does. On one the Metal sites facebook page they posted a song and asked opinions on it. Curiously I listened. I was bashed for saying that it was a big no' date=' he sounded like he was choking his way through the song and that maybe the next singer will be better lol[/quote'] I may still catch them at MDF, despite how disappointed I've been by Nick's vocals. The music has sounded good to me, their strongest component has always been Blakkheim's melodies, which come through strongly. Also, I'm (not so) secretly hoping that Nick, Gregor, and Adrian all join up for an old-school Paradise Lost cameo. The chances of that may be slim, but MDF would be the place for them to do it, as they have been able to coax some cool cameos and unique performances out of the bands they've booked in the past.
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I may still catch them at MDF' date=' despite how disappointed I've been by Nick's vocals. The music has sounded good to me, their strongest component has always been Blakkheim's melodies, which come through strongly. Also, I'm (not so) secretly hoping that Nick, Gregor, and Adrian all join up for an old-school Paradise Lost cameo. The chances of that may be slim, but MDF would be the place for them to do it, as they have been able to coax some cool cameos and unique performances out of the bands they've booked in the past.[/quote'] That would be pretty freakin cool if they do. And who knows, maybe Nicks vocals will sound better live, even though with singers (I've found) that case is usually the opposite lol
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You know mere and alabaster you guys can wait for a remastered version. I know. The remastered. Usually make the albums better
They won't remaster this. Remastering wouldn't fix weak vocals, anyway. There are things they could have done beforehand, in the mix, to beef up the sound, but they didn't. I assume they're happy with it the way it is. The good news is, the music sounded sub par to me anyway, so the shitty vocals didn't ruin anything. All those guys have been involved in some of my favorite albums; it's kind of a shame to hear them shit the bed on this one.
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You know mere and alabaster you guys can wait for a remastered version. I know. The remastered. Usually make the albums better
Remastering doesn't really make anything sound better, especially since it's usually done incorrectly. Any audiophile will tell you that modern remastering almost always involves boosting the volume to a level that causes clipping in the frequencies, so listening at any higher than a mid-level volume means that it you're losing a ton of the sound. You also lose a lot of depth and warmth from bricking everything in, there's no room for anything to breathe and be heard, it's just a wall of noise. This is not the case with all remasters, but many have suffered this fate.
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Remastering doesn't really make anything sound better' date=' especially since it's usually done incorrectly. Any audiophile will tell you that modern remastering almost always involves boosting the volume to a level that causes clipping in the frequencies, so listening at any higher than a mid-level volume means that it you're losing a ton of the sound. You also lose a lot of depth and warmth from bricking everything in, there's no room for anything to breathe and be heard, it's just a wall of noise. This is not the case with all remasters, but many have suffered this fate.[/quote'] It's complex. It really depends on the purpose of the remaster and the skill of the engineer (as well as the basic tracks). The "loudness wars" are actually becoming a thing of the past, and the heavy-handed limiter use you're talking about is more and more frowned upon; I read a few articles last year by engineers and other industry professionals promoting a standard minimum for dynamic range. Once you've limited the daylights out of something, it doesn't matter what volume you listen at. Those dynamics are gone. A remaster could potentially fix that. I'd love to hear a good remaster of Belphegor's "Pestapokalypse VI", for instance. Also, keep in mind that many things labeled as remasters involve a substantial amount of remixing or even rerecording (for instance, on Meshuggah's re-release of "Nothing"), and that vinyl mastering is a different animal; dropping a digital master into a vinyl pressing will often be doing the recording a disservice.
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