Infamy & the Breed [Import]

Zonaria | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Pivotal Rockordings
• ASIN: B000UCCGVY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth checking out!, March 7, 2011

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J. Valencia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infamy and the Breed (MP3 Download)

This is without a doubt on the heavier side of melodic death-metal, but that is not at all a bad thing. Only two songs contain any clean vocals and the ones on track 8 (Attending Annihilation)are done by the always impressive Christian Alverstram (ex-Scar Symmetry).

Personally, the cd was almost worth it just because of that song, but there are several others that are great.

The only reason I cannot give this cd 5 stars is because in a couple songs the vocalist does this awkward talking in place of singing or screaming.

4.0 out of 5 stars Zonaria, February 1, 2010

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Patrick B. Reichow "Black Metal Minion" (New Prague, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infamy & the Breed (Audio CD)

Good death metal album, a touch of behemoth to them, but they are pretty young yet.....a lot of potential and lets hope this band doesnt try to get to big to quick and put out poor material that suits the main streamers

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3.0 out of 5 stars Rehashes BM Cliches, Offers Nothing New, May 24, 2009

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avgvstvs "Matt Seil" (Omaha NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infamy and the Breed (MP3 Download)

I'm on my... 10th or so listen, trying very hard to find something that innovates or simply blows me completely away.

That task is really difficult...

There's hints of greatness, on "The Last Endeavour" the small hints of middle-eastern two-step in the beginning start to elevate the groove to something monstrous, but is lost soon thereafter by transition to a blastbeat.

The keyboards hold an epic feel... but only supply a chord bed and no novel application has been applied to them on any song.

The weakest link in the entire disk though is on the vocals. A practitioner of the art myself, nothing annoys me more than a one-trick vocalist. Simon Bergland delivers the equivalent sound of dragging stones on stones while tossing in a bit of a banshee shriek at the same time. The result is something that sounds overproduced, overdubbed, and completely lacking in dynamic. He only ever does one vocal style, and only has one volume level.

The guitarwork (especially harmonies and leads) are well executed, but when comparing to some of the A+ works in the metal genre... its quite difficult to justify the word "Brilliant." Something I would apply to quite a few of the bands that CM has been signing the past few years.

Stand out tracks: "Descend into Chaos," and "The Black Omen" conjures everything I loved from Clayman-Era In Flames.

Who would most like this band? If you like death metal without too much keyboard work, Sweden's "Sadistic Grimness" is about all that comes to mind. Otherwise probably "Heaven Shall Burn," but HSB puts quite a bit more variety on vox compared to Zonaria. (And that's my greatest criticism of that band, too.)

In conclusion, this band shows alot of potential, guitarwork is good, hinting that great things are just over the horizon. The sound is good but heavily overproduced, and the vocals are mediocre at best, picking one monotonous style and bringing the entire ship down.