Barbed Wire Soul

Blackstar Rising | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B00000I3Z9
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Game Over

2. Smile

3. The Sound of Silence

4. Rock & Roll Circus

5. New Song

6. Give Up the Ghost

7. Revolution of the Heart

8. Waste of Space

9. Deep Wound

10. Better the Devil

11. Instrumental

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carcass Doom/Stoner Style, March 26, 2001

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Shawn Branchcomb (Pensacola, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Barbed Wire Soul (Audio CD)

Containing all the members of the final lineup of Carcass minus guitarist Bill Steer, Black Star Rising makes like Lee Dorian of Cathedral did after leaving Napalm Death, and former Carcass guitarists Bill Steer and Michael Ammott has done with Firebird and Spiritual Beggars respectively, and evolves from grindcore shredders to Sabbathy doom/stoner rock crushers with great success. Jeff Walker has adapted his death metal grunt into a more melodic snarl sounding a little like Testament's Chuck Billy. This album rocks hard and will appeal to any fan of raw hard rock and metal: Imagine Carcass's Swansong album mixed with Cathedral and you can understand how this sounds!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars kick ass grind rock, August 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Barbed Wire Soul (Audio CD)

a lot of people are going into this record thinking of it as a new Carcass record. It in fact does contain 3/4 of the band Carcass. It is definitley a progession from the Swansong cd towards a more rock feel with the grind crunch and familiar abrasive Carcass vocal. Overall a much more fun record with an odd twist of some horns that work in strange sort of way. This record gets a lot better with every listen and is great one to leave in your car tape deck to blast at a ridiculous volume. Highly recommended if you enjoyed the direction of Swansong.

5.0 out of 5 stars I like.... I like..., April 13, 2004

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Mill (SD, CA, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Barbed Wire Soul (Audio CD)

If you liked Carcass's "Swansong", think of that with less of a melodic grindcore approach, and more of an approach to 80s metal, except still with Jeff Walker's trade growling voice, except its more melodic and cleaner than with Carcass. Blackrising Star though, are NOT like early Carcass at all, so don't expect them to be. You can however, make some comparisons to how Carcass's legacy ended with the "Swansong" CD.

The lyrics for this CD more radio friendly lyrics. No, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're mindless crap, it's just that they seem to rely on song stucture and melody.
Musicly, Blackstar Rising are wonderful. The guitars and bass blend very well, and are extremely catchy.

As of this review, they have sadly broken up, but luckily with CDs you can keep music alive.
I'd say my favorite songs would have to be "New Song" and "Instrumental".