Customer Reviews

Congregation of the Damned [Explicit]

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This album takes what Lead Sails made Atreyu famous and combines it with the songs from their previous albums, without all the autotune.

If the over-active presence of the studio editing in Lead Sails kept you from listening, this album will bring you back to Atreyu.

There's something interesting musically on every song. The guitar playing and the drums are both great. This album strikes the right balance for me between the metal songs and more melodic songs, and the two different styles of singing that I've always loved from Atreyu.

When downloading this album, I really hoped that it wasn't Lead Sails Paper Anchor II. It took me a long time to accept Lead Sails, after loving the Curse in 2004. With this new album, Atreyu really brings back the metalcore that they helped shape in the early 2000's. Although The Curse is my favorite Atreyu record, this ties for second with A Deathgrip on Yesterday. 5/5.

I'll start by saying I don't think this is a one star album but this version from Amazon is edited. I don't believe any art should be edited. Shame on Amazon for tricking people into buying this and then not disclosing this "version" is edited. I'll be contacting them and asking for my money back.

I was thoroughly impressed with their previous album, Lead Sails Paper Anchor which I found to be the exact opposite of selling out; they developed their own unique edge and style as opposed to your general metalcore band (not to say I didn't like two of their earlier albums as I did). I enjoyed Congregation of the Damned to an extent, yes, but I find it doesn't compare to their last. Understandable, since their last was breathtakingly beautiful, and the lyrics were the work of true masters.

I got this CD for my girl friend since she loves this band so much, and she knew how i didn't like this band and kept asking and begging me to listen to it, so i gave it a try and BAM! This album is so great!
I went to go buy my own!
I rate this a 10/10!

Congregation of the Damned is exactly what I expected from Atreyu. Amazing guitars, solid vocals and neck cramps from headbanging. If you love hard rock you need to check out this record.

Directions for enjoying Congregation of the Damned:
1. Insert disc or open itunes.
2. Hit the play button.
3. Crank the volume.
4. ROCK OUT!

As a designer I also appreciate album art...this album has a great layout and great graphics. I believe album art is about the only reason to purchase the physical CD in the jewel case packaging.

Congregation of the Damned is an auditory delight!

Why give the album 1 star when your beef is with Amazon. I intentionally checked for the unedited version prior to clicking buy. Not too difficult of a task. Thanks Amazon for another great $3.99 deal.

First off, I have been a fan of Atreyu since "the Curse" was first released. I don't do this often but I was in a Target store looking at the new releases, I was intrigued by the album cover, vampire theme, roman numerals for track listing and the song titles. I saw the last song "Five Vicodin chased with a shot of clarity" and all those factors led me to buy the album, without even hearing it. Now this could have been a big mistake, but instead Atreyu became one of my favorite bands, ever. I got suicide notes and story goes on from there.

To all you that want it all to be back to the way it was, you are not going to find it. You see honest musicians have two bosses. The first is their corporate label (if they have one) trying to get a certain sound to sell more records. The second boss is the fans, and most of them want to be fed what they want, with no regards to the musicians themselves. Then of course Atreyu needs to do what they want to do. They got by fine with Deathgrip and then Lead Sails came around. I knew in advance it would not be the same, but it was still the same writers writing the songs. With the exception of a few tracks, I found it to be a decent album, not the best.

Now to Congregation of the Damned: This record does sound like every other record combined and mixed up and then given the full force of their writing talent. It's amazing, new fans who started on Lead Sails will be blown away for sure. I got it tuesday morning and that is the only cd in my stereo. It is a great cd. This one sounds like it should have come bfore Lead Sails, and then Lead Sails would be made better because of the musical growth.

Anyway get it.

To all you new "Lead Sails" Fans (lol) please buy the earlier cds. Please

So I did not realize this was the edited/clean version of this cd. I would have rated it better if it was the actual version I was wanting. But amazon failed to post on here if it was clean or not. Thank you so much for that amazon! Now I have wasted 3.99 for the version I didn't even want. Hoping to get my money credited back for this!