Grudge

Mortiis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Earache Records
• ASIN: B00030593A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,273 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal Industrial Rock, November 1, 2004

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Crypt "thecrypt777" (Arkham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grudge (Audio CD)

First off I just want to say that Old Mortiis, the guy who gave us the Stargate and other neo-symphonic masterpieces is DEAD. So get over it! He's gone and he's not coming back, ever! With that said, I think it's time that we look at Mortiis' new efforts OBJECTIVELY and enjoy them for what they are. One reviewer would have us believe that this album is somehow an attempt at mainstream acceptance. This type of music definitely had a following... TEN YEARS AGO. And it was really only the likes of NIN and to a much lesser degree Ministry that broke out into the mainstream. And The Grudge is a much more progressive, insanely complex and excruciatingly extreme album than anything either of those bands have done. I think it's a major step backward since Smell of Rain in regards to accessablilty and a risky step forward into complexity and convoluted weirdness. I can't see any of these songs getting radio or MTV exposure today. This is definitely not mainstream material and I applaud Mortiis for NOT going in a commercially accessable direction. Compare this album to Skinny Puppy's new record. I say this one stands out as superior, honest, and truly stimulating. In fact this is one of the greatest Electro/Industrial/Rock hybrid records I've ever heard. It contains every element that made that subgenre great in the past, yet it tends to be very forward thinking. Forget the idea of Mortiis ever composing synth symphonies ever again. Quit complaining every time he releases a new album that it's not Stargate II and therefore it's trash, and look at what he's doing now with an objective frame of mind. It is still brilliant stuff.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars evolve, April 29, 2005

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N. Levens - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grudge (Audio CD)

When I first got this album, it got one listen and then retired to the recesses of my collection. Recently, I pulled it out for another listen, and it hasn't left rotation since. In this release, Mortiis flexes his ability to present complicated, dynamic, and accessable Industrial style music. Is it completely original? Not really. If you listen to Nine Inch Nails or KMFDM, you'll hear it in this record, but at the same time, it doesn't feel like a blatent ripoff (and on that note, anyone who says The Fragile was NIN's weakest album should have their opinion held in suspect).
Overall, a good, dynamic, aggressive, exciting album that stirs the somewhat stagnant Industrial scene, but will require a couple listens to get past some of the surface, generic Industrial trappings. Nothing like old Mortiis, but who cares? If he put out the same album every time people would still be complaining. A very good little record for people who don't mind a troll behind the mixing board. If you're into more complex Industrial music, I'd definitely reccommend this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A letdown from his previous work, February 19, 2005

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Ex-Presidents (Anchorage, Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grudge (Audio CD)

am a huge Mortiis/Vond fan, and have been ever since i heard his bass skills on Emperor's Wrath Of The Tyrant. He has revamped his sound again and again from necro black metal to keyboard-driven ambience to a morose gothic sound, and now to an watered down version of industrial. This album is repetitive and not in a good way, every song sounds the same and never really picks up the pace or shines in any track (except maybe Broken Skin). When I first played it everyone asked me if it was Ministry or Nine Inch Nails. I guess this is not a bad thing, except Mortiis is more than capable of a sound all to his own, and has proved that in the past, but this time he just seems to use recycled industrial sounds.

For some reason since he has changed his sound so many times he is ostracized from the metal scene and is considered an outcast. I have read interviews and I truly believe he does not care one bit and definitely listens to the beat of a different drummer......this time it wasn't different enough I'm afraid to say.