Blood Rapture

Vomitory | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B000063DXN
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,941 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thrashy Death Metal That Only Vomitory Can Accomplish, October 28, 2002

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Azrael (Lake Forest, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Rapture (Audio CD)

Though I don't consider this album to be quite as good as their previous release "Revelation Nausea", the newest disc by Vomitory is still very worthy of praise. These guys stay true to their roots and their style with "Blood Rapture", and all elements of the musical equation are performed excellently. The drums blast yet keep their technical feel, the guitar and bass work is still very good, and the classic Vomitory vocals are brutal as ever. The following is a good breakdown of the highlights as well as lowpoints if this disc:

UPSIDES - The vocals are moved further into the foreground of the sound on this album (as opposed to "Revelation Nausea" where they weren't as clear and carried less presence), which is great because they're some of the best available in death metal right now. The drums are also still up to speed and keep you wanting to headbang throughout the disc.

DOWNSIDES - The mix was changed (as mentioned above regarding the vocals), but an unfortunate side effect was that most of the drumming (with the exception of the kick drums) were muddied and pushed into the background with a lot less presence and a lot less snap as they had in previous releases. This doesn't necessarily mean that their production is bad per se, but those out there really wanting to hear all the intricacies of the drumming will have to listen harder. Also, there does not seem to be as much thrash influence in "Blood Rapture". I personally find this to be a bad thing, but some of you may enjoy it more. What I mean here is that the music is a little bit more straightforward but lacks a bit of the technicality that was present before.

After weighing the upsides and the downsides, I still have to give this album 4 stars because regardless of the gripes mentioned above, this is an excellent release by Vomitory. Stand out tracks would be "Hollowed Retribution", "Blessed & Forsaken" and "Nailed, Quartered & Consumed".

Check this out if you're a fan of death metal. I highly recommend it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great old-school, June 10, 2002

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Vile (Tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Rapture (Audio CD)

With no fancy intros, no special-effects, and no ----, Vomitory kick off their fourth album Blood Rapture. This is fast-paced old-school Death Metal that doesn't take ---- from anybody. Like the band's website says, "Swedish-reeking, old school death metal are ready to ---- your ears!" For those that claimed Death Metal was dead, listen to this album!

The guitars are chugging constantly ("Redeemed In Flames" is great) with melody and speed that are unforgiving. The vocals are always in the bottom of the gutter, no annoying high-pitched screams here, which is just how I like it. The drumming is blasting its way into your subconscious, where the entire piece dwells, slowly overtaking you to new reaches of violence and hate you never knew before.

The songs are quick; you press PLAY and before you know it, its over. Reading along with the lyrics gets you even more in the mood to bang your head. When I heard "Nailed, Quartered, Consumed" I wanted to nail, quarter and consume someone! "Redeemed In Flames" and "Eternity Appears" stand out as quality tracks.

"Blessed and Forsaken" is one of those songs where you scream, "WOW!" when you are listening to it, this band just doesn't stop. I'm glad I wasn't in the studio with them while they were recording this album, who knows what happened in there...

Once I had fully listened to the CD I immediately replayed the whole thing, wanting to hear more and more. This is great old-school ----, I guarantee you will like this.

4.0 out of 5 stars Pure death metal, nothing else, August 5, 2011

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N30N_d34TH - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Rapture (Audio CD)

I've been listening to this album for a few years now and I've always thought the same thing about it: can death metal get any purer than this? I discovered these guys at the same time I dug up Fleshgod Apocalypse, Dark Lunacy, Mortician, and Hate Eternal. It was on this stupid website that isn't around anymore, but I'm glad I found those bands. When I want to show someone what pure death metal sounds like, one of the bands that I'll end up playing for them is Vomitory. And for a plain death metal album, it's not that bad at all. And that's kind of unusual for me to say because the thing about a band that always grabs me is if their creative and progressive with their music, instead of sticking to pure tradition.

The first thing I would like to note about this album is that the guitar distortions are very clean and smooth, as opposed to the crunchy distortions on Carnage Euphoria. Most of the album checks out pretty well. None of the instruments are overpowering and drowning everything else out, the bands is relatively tight but it could use some work. I like the deep growls, except they sound a tad bit too relaxed, so they could use to be more powerful. I love the way they have the drums tuned on this album. The drums have a really clicky sound, but there's bass in the drums so it's not all high-pitched and annoying like it is on some metal records. The guitar solos are a little too simple for my taste, but luckily they fix that up in Carnage Euphoria. And the drums are kind of overtechnicallizing the other instruments (I just invented my own word). In other words, the drums are really technical, but everything else is pretty simple, and it doesn't really fit. But other than those minor faults, Blood Rapture checks out just fine.

This is one of the albums where I haven't paid any attention to the song names. I just put this album on shuffle and listen to it straight through. But I did pick out a couple of song names so that I could point something out that bothers me. You can't hear the bass in some of the songs; it's just not loud enough. Two of those songs would be Rotting Hill and Hollow Retribution. And I don't know how many of you out there pay much attention to what the bassist is playing, but I naturally hear what the bassist is playing because I play the bass myself. This happens to all musicians, when they listen to a recording that's not theirs, the instrument that the musician play just naturally stands out to them. It's actually kind of weird because before I started playing bass almost 4 years ago, I didn't really hear what the bassist was playing unless he was doing a solo or something (like in Good Times Bad Times by Led Zeppelin). So this album is pure death metal, nothing else. This gets a 16/20.

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