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Download it now you must. Now now now. OK, now. Just get it already.
I listen to a lot of music. A phenomenal amount of music. I'm a regular here, and also at T61 and Magnatune, and I scour the Internet on a near-daily basis looking for more music, ever more great bands.
Diablo Swing Orchestra has brought all that activity to a screeching halt.
This is without a doubt the single best album I've heard this year (move over, Circa Vitae!). It combines so many elements in a ridiculously seamless manner: metal, jazz, opera, gypsy, swing (duh), Middle Eastern, didgeridoo, and the list of styles just goes on and on and on. And it never gets old.
"Balrog Boogie" had me hooked from the very first second. It's a swingish little ditty that makes you hop and bop, even if you're decidedly not the hoppy boppy type (and I am not). I thought at first the soprano female lead would turn me off after a while, but much to my surprise it instead grew on me. Great opening track.
"Gunpowder Chant" combines the aforementioned Arabian feel with a didgeridoo, and my only complaint is that it's way too short. It does segway nicely into "Infralove," though, so I'll give it a pass.
And finishing up the album is "Pink Noise Waltz," a choppy, rousing tune that brings perfect closure to this perfect collection of songs.
This one will get regular spins in my playlist for a very, very long time to come. HAIL DSO!
Stumbled across this one when I clicked on "Discover This Artist", and I'm glad I did!
The songwriting, start to finish, easily qualifies as among Jamendo's best. It's strongly reminiscent of Jane's Addiction, Radiohead and a handful of others whose names I can't remember right now. The sound quality is perfect, and I mean that; this sounds like it came off a major-label mixing board.
How to describe the songs? Eerie, floating, haunting, spacey, melodic, beautiful and damn near epic, and that's not an exaggeration.
You owe it to yourself as a human being to listen to this album if you truly believe in rock and roll.
Incredible. I'm enjoying this so much I'm having trouble stopping to write the review.
..ok, I think I'm ready. Mesentery's "Blood Rain" was good. Not great, not terrible, not mediocre, just good. "Everlasting Hate" quickly became one of my favorite metal songs ever, but the rest of the album, while well-crafted, kind of ran together.
But this ... what a difference! It's like hellbilly deathrock with a dash of post thrash. Actually, forget what I just said -- it's KICK. ASS. METAL. to the NTH. DEGREE.
Production-wise, "Behind Windows" is one of those rare gems that's beautifully mixed but somehow sounds like it's being played live. The drumming is tight, as it was on "Blood Rain", the guitars are harsh and fast and appropriately dirty, and the songs demonstrate a much greater sense of effort put into writing them.
If I have one complaint, it's the vocals -- the singer sounds like he's in high school fronting a garage hardcore band at times. Otherwise this is a true underground masterpiece from my favorite Jamendo metalers -- shame it's so short.
NICE WORK!
Today's death metal scene is filled with bands who try to do too much and sound too technical instead of just writing good music. Mesentery's "Blood Rain" gets back to basics and delivers a solid, if not spectacular, collection of hard, driving riffs mixed well with melodies that fit the songs.
The nicest thing about "Blood Rain" is that it doesn't blast through your ears at ten thousand miles an hour. Like the description says, it's mid-tempo and moves along at a steady but forceful pace. All the songs except for "Truth" clock in at between 4 and 5 1/2 minutes. It's been a while since I could appreciate a death metal song for its musical qualities.
The vocals could definitely use a small boost in volume, but otherwise they sound good. The guitars sound great, especially during the solos and melodies. What impressed me most, though, was the drumming -- it's tight and creative, and definitely sets the feel for all the tracks.
My favorite track was easily "Everlasting Hate" -- a near-perfect blend of speed, technical prowess, musicianship and brutality. Put another way, it's a 5-star song on a 3.5-star album. There wasn't any single track that I disliked -- I just liked some more than others.
Definitely worth adding to your collection. Can't wait to hear more from Mesentery in the near future!
Phenomenal album, and the scary part is that it's their debut release. This is good solid metal, thick and heavy with despair and laced with a generous helping of violence.
"Colors Of Death" ... I can't begin to tell you how many times I've played this song. How awesome is it? If Dante Alighieri had heard "Colors Of Death," he never would have written "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso"; they would have just been called "Inferno II" and "Inferno: The Awesome Power of Ghord."
My only complaint is that the execution isn't as tight as it should be; the drummer's off a little here, the guitarist comes in a half-second late there. But the arrangements are top-rate, the mix is clean and the whole thing packs a wicked punch to your baby-making regions.
This album isn't groundbreaking. It *is*, however, earth-shattering. And mind-shattering. And soul-shattering. It is in your best interests to download this album as soon as possible.
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