Customer Reviews

Commandment

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

As a certified eccentric who listens to Celia Cruz, Roy Orbison, Opera, Ricardo Arjona, and Cannibal Corpse, I tend to gravitate to whatever I feel embodies a certain feeling or mood I am after.

This one I can appreciate as its mostly slow, crushing rythems have an apocolyptic feel to it, and at times it evokes insanely rich, vivid gore scenes and head-banging, fist pumping evil.

The best tune is "The Edge of the Hatchet" and "Ghosts of the Undead," "Thou Shalt Kill," "Zombie Exectutioner," and "Doomsday" are all top-notch as well. Really, 9 of the 10 tunes are great (didn't care for track 7 for some reason).

Definitly a heavy album, not as blisteringly speedy as cannibal corpse, not as technical as Death and Morbid Angel-- musically it is similar to Obituary, and the vocals are terrifc-- deep, pissed and unmistakenable.

I think this is the best album I have had for awhile. The songs flow and continue, the vocals do not get tiresome, and the the overall tempo of the album is consistent. Heavy riffed bellowing.

Six Feet Under have had ups and downs in their musical direction. After they did the graveyard classics ACDC thing I kind of gave up on them and figured that Chris Barnes was just fading away into redundant lameness. Then they released the album 13 and I was really impressed with the brutality of the songs. Now with Commandment, Six Feet Under prove that they are far from washed up and still have plenty of Deathmetal in them. This album Commandment is in my opinion their best one since Maximum Violence. This new album is exactly what die hard Barnes fans want from him. Sick low growling vocals and thick chunky pure old school DEATH metal riffing. Commandmemnt is an excellent solid Deathmetal release If you like Six Feet Uunder, BUY OR DIE!!!

Its funny how reviewers will say " pretty good" or " not their best but ". It seems like death metal and the " underground " metal fans like to sound legit or cool with their reviews.Like its cool to like the uncool. Grow up. I call it like i see it. This is their best. Song wise, sound wise, production wise. In my opinion this is the best metal or heavy cd release since Metallicas master of puppets or Maybe Panteras CFH. Seriously. Its crushing. There will always be comparisons to CC but this has outstripped anything CC has ever done. The guitar and bass sounds mesh together well and Steve Swanson is one metal riff meister. AMAZING STUFF ! I dont think SFU has ever got a great drum sound on their records but its pretty good here...and its Gregs best playing.

I think this was the begining of the end of the road for SFU though. Chris cannot keep up this vocal style forever and it showed on the following cd Death Rituals. I have no problem with weed but if you are pushing 40 and are singing death metal...cutting back on the weed may be a good idea. And i have seen plenty of live videos where they have missed parts missed vocal lines...not good. Now with the lineup change ? Forget it. Never got to see the original or last lineup! It sucks ! But back to the music....it f'n pumles the brain. Thou shal kill, edge of the hatchet, zombie executioner all crushing tracks. The vocals are just insane ! I had this CD in my truck for about two years straight...nothing else. Just recently had to replace it. Redescovered it. It rips. At 39 this is probably the last metal cd i will really ever be into. RIP to the real SFU !

This Is a Great Album From Six Feet Under Very Very Heavy And Loud This And 13 Are Their Best Albums I'm Hooked Like a Fish I Just Got This Cd At Fye Today And I Can't Stop Playing It Chris Barnes Can Really Scream With The Best Of Them Really Good Album So If You Are a Six Feet Under Fan Go Pick This Up.

chris barnes says that commandment is his favorite sfu record.
kinda interesting... so i put it in my review.

its not my favorite, but it is their most straighforward offering.
as soon as you hit "play" till its over, you are pulverized with the ultra-mega death 'n' roll style straight to your brain. the production is pretty much what you'd expect, as are the songs... but, thats what i love about sfu: you always know that you're gonna get some good metal, man.

"the edge of the hatchet" is my favorite track. reminds me of a song by GHOUL for some reason? every song though has it's own special charm. musicianship and barnes' all sound top notch. everysingle s.m.f. is this band is pulling their weight on this release... no stragglers.

this is, i believe, their shortest release as well; its just over 30 minutes in length. i often have to play it two times in a row because i need my fix of metal in larger quantities than the length of a seinfeld episode. but... it never overstays its welcome. chris and the boys show up, beat the poop out of you, drink all your milk, kick your dog and leave before you even know what hit you.

i still like "13" better though? hence, only 4 starz.

SFU's "Commandment" was the follow-up to the brutal and one of the best SFU albums (besides MV) to "13" I was really looking forward to this release, and I thought it might top "13" I was wrong. Its not that is a horrid album, its just that Commandment seems to drag a bit. Lets face it..SFU isnt a technical or progressive metal band. They are pretty much old school groove death metal, but this formula works for them, as its pretty much the same on each album. The problem with "Commandment" is the same problem they had with "Warpath" Its just gets a bit stale after awhile, some of the songs just seem to have very little change, its almost like they hardly changed up riffs with some of the songs, and just added different vocal or bass line, or whatever. Its not terrible, but it does get dull after a few songs...I like almost everything from this band (the lowest rated I would give SFU is "Warpath" with 2 1/2 Stars) everything else is above that, but this one isnt going to make it on the top SFU albums..still enjoy it, there are still some killer tracks on here.

This is the first actual SFU album that I have purchased. I spent over one hour listening to different samples here, from different bands. What finally made me go for this album was Barne's unholy, and ugly-as-all-hell vocals. I have all his stuff with Cannibal Corpse, and I listened to other SFU albums. But in this one, something is up in this man's demonic pipes. I have been listening to Death Metal since the early 1990's, and I cringed a few times while listening to this. But, guess what? THAT's why I love it!
Musically, there's really not much to say. Simple, churning guitar riffs, with simple arrangements. Pretty standard fare, that yet somehow still makes you wanna break something.
Take a listen to this, and you'll notice what I'm talking about, vocals-wise. It's beautiful, in an entirely demonic, horrific way.

Six Feet Under seems to have went back to basics on this CD. they somewhat sound like thrash metal more than they do death metal, but they still ROCK. this whole album is worth a listen. hope they come out with a new album soon.

This CD by Six Feet Under is MUCH better than their last few albums & it has the sound that SFU has been known for over the years however there's more fast & heavy songs compared to the last few CDs. If Barnes being in Torture Killer helped influence him in making this record, then I think he needs to spend more time with them to really get his juices flowing for writing for future SFU releases because I can hear some of the same killer sounds from the latest AWESOME Torture Killer album 'Swarm!' in this CD. Nice job Mr. barnes...