APOPTHELEMA Entry 20, Part 1 March 2020
[Note: this was composed in prison where proof-reading facilities are notoriously bad. Please don't hold that against the author. You can contact Kyle through the address listed at the end of this entry.]
APOPTHELEMA
#20 PART ONE
REVIEWS:
ALLEGAEON
– APOPTOSIS
This poser band is to True Death Metal what rancid pineapple flavored soda is to a fresh pineapple... Fake Death Metal for trendy aggro emo kids and alternajocks..... I saw a full page ad for this album in Guitar World. it claimed pompously that its a "Perfect symbiosis of technical, progresssive and melodic death metal".… Which to me is like taking a selection of the most derivative and foul tasting processed artificially flavored pineapple food products and sticking them in a blender and trying to eat the resulting pseudo pineapple mess…
Why would anybody do that when you could just buy a real pineapple and eat that?
Or better yet shove the pineapple up the ass of whoever signed these posers to Metal Blade...
I
also don’t fucking get what the point of melodic death metal is.
Other then posers who like to flirt with extremity but still need
safe catchy melodies to keep them grounded in something they can
relate to... To me the term melodic Death Metal is an oxymoronic
contradiction in terms like soft rock and civil war…
Also if you make a concentrated effort to proudly classify yourself as technical death, your admitting that jockish arbitrary shredding circle jerks take priority over substance.
The bands that provided the prototype for what technical death metal became, Post Human Death, Cryptopsy, Atheist, Hellwitch, didn’t for the most part set out to be classified as tech death. They came to that transgressive evolution of form naturally through experimentation and improvisation and it was done in an effort to further the aesthetic drive and personal vision of the artists involved especially in the case of later Death. For the record, Chuck rules and all the Death albums have their value and merit. Its an unfortunate trend to only focus on the first couple Death albums and ignoring all of Chuck's other innovations within the field of Extreme Metal.
Whereas acts like Allegaeon put themselves in a stylistic straight jacket from the start . Going so far as to include it in there fucking marketing campaign. Thus perpetuating the legions of trend bands that play in accordance not with a personal creative vision burning inside their twisted psyche clawing its way out like Chuck. But In base conformity to preestablished methods and techniques. Bands like this need to just fuck off and die. These assholes spent more fucking money on a full page ad in Guitar World then most underground bands and labels spend pressing vinyl. The ad also shows the shirts they got for sale. This band is so false their shirts are gray. Their bands shirt arnt even black. They go good with crusty semen stained sweatpants.…
There’s nothing fucking Death Metal about this... Its just boring weak shit from trying to make it corporate trend slaves…
Bands like Portal and Mitochondrion, stay rooted in the old school and still manage to carry Extreme Metal forward in new brutal and barbaric directions. Whereas posers like this band arrogantly sever their connections to the old gods and try to reinvent the fucking wheel in the image of their post millennial hipster status quo. You don’t even need to listen to the record to see how much this band sucks.
Just look at the professional press release photos of the band.… They got the token minority member that looks like a cross between a Mexican male prostitute tweaker and a jihadist pedophile. And then you got a few husky cornhole fed frat bro dudes with backwards baseball caps, Fred Durst beards and fancy sports shoes...
F.O.A.D.
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DENIAL OF GOD - THE HALLOW MASS
This isn’t as powerful or moving as its classic predecessor Death And The Beyond. One of the greatest metal concept albums. Like a Black Metal take on Priest's Beyond The Realms of Death.
But Hallow Mass is still a fucking masterwork of epic thanantopsis black metal. The death themes are executed in a meditative occultist context. Denial Of God's later work is very distinctive and original. Unmistakable as anything but Denial Of God. Especially the demonic controlled use a wah pedal throughout alongside the meticulously sculpted tremolo patterns. All these songs are pretty much in the 10 to 14 minute range. Despite the extended length of the songs they still remain engaging and moving.
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SAVAGE MASTER - MYTH,MAGIC AND STEEL
The long awaited third offering from Savage Master.
Fuck the politics. Just bang your head!
Blast this record while you chop the head off the new vocalist for Arch Enemy and present it as a Satanic sacrifical offering to the new queen of heavy metal! Savage Master kills all the lesser weak poser shit with True Heavy Metal! This band reanimates the corpses of the 80s metal queens to rise again to shamble fourth to feast on the flesh of the false. Destroying your modern metal sounds. Then becoming new ruler of the ruins!.
Kyle Nonneman
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