Folie Circulaire

Withered | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Prosthetic Records
• ASIN: B00175G6OG
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,257 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Formed in 2003, Atlanta's Withered rose from members of the grindcore/crust punk band Social Infestation with a yearning to...see site for more info.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If I could give it 10 stars on here, would rate it 11!!!, April 13, 2009

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Asher Christian Dark - See all my reviews

This review is from: Folie Circulaire (Audio CD)

Have you ever heard a band that was attempting to blend different types of metal together and the result was choppy, unblended, out-of-place, and contrived, like the band tried to hard to be creative? like they had no creativity at all and instead just emulated there influences and put their name on it, mistaking brilliance with immitation? I metal, this happens more often than not (I won't be cruel enough to name any names).

Well, Withered is the polar antithesis of those failed bands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Theirs is brilliance and sophistication, sleekness, agility and dramatic Harshness! Post-Hardcore meets Blackened Death fury played with Technical complication. These guys are sick!

They truely transcend any label other than Extreme Metal! Black Metal is present, Tech/Death Metal....present, Post-Hardcore...present! Doom/Sludge......present! Deathcore/Grindcore.....present! The tempo ranges from doom slow to grind fast, the vokills are sparse with death and black overtones, the strings are tech (especially the bass actually). The guitars are all over the place without sounding confused, black atmospheres and domm-laden and Not every kind of metal is represented here, but I can't imagine it any different!

I have heard many CD's lately, and this one stands out and stands alone! I would call it the future of metal, but I'm not too certain very many bands can produce the same divers level of art. My ultimate recommendation.....Don't hesitate!

Also, if you loved the old Black Horde Weakling, This could have been the follow up to their only release "Dead as Dreams", which is one of the best Black Metal records ever (or Metal in general)! And slightly comparable to Krallice, another amazing new example of the bar raising ever higher, and another record to check out if you haven't already!

Can't wait to see them live w/ Marduk, Cephalic Carnage, and Mayhem.