Nightmares Made Flesh [Extra tracks]

Bloodbath | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B0007LPS0E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,151 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Limited edition slipcase version of the Swedish Death Metal groups 2004 album. Featuring members of Edge Of Sanity, Hypocrisy, Katatonia and Witchery. Century Media. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some damn fine Swedish death, May 25, 2006

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A. Stutheit "Teyad" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightmares Made Flesh (Audio CD)

Back in 2002, when Bloodbath released their last album (their debut disc, "Resurrection Through Carnage"), the rock music scene was swarming with nu-metal bands like Limp Bizkit. Flash forward three years and the heavy music scene is now overflowing with Swedish melodeath-influenced metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage. But whether several years in the past or modern day, it's always been very refreshing to hear a new Bloodbath album. And while "Nightmares Made Flesh" may not break down any walls, it's good to know that you won't find one trace of Fred Durst-style rapping or KsE-esque soulful singing. Indeed, this five piece is a rare find nowadays: a not very melodic Swedish death metal band.

A fan might be quick to dismiss Bloodbath's new album, "Nightmares Made Flesh," because it's the band's first album without the talents of Opeth singer Mikael Akerfeldt. But most any Bloodbath/death metal fan will tell you that newcomer Peter Tagtgren does a fine job of filling in for Akerfeldt's shoes. Peter's Hellish voice sounds equally as effective and intense whether it's belting out low bellows or high, glass shattering shrieks. Plus, the rest of the band seem to great, as well. Blakkheim and Dan Swano (who was Bloodbath's former drummer) comprise the guitar duo, and they turn out many exceptional, fiery, and mighty heavy riffs. And meanwhile, newbie drummer Martin Axenrot pummels away at his trapkit with loose, thrashy precision.

"Cancer Of The Soul," which features thick, churning guitars and thunderous double bass work, is the album's fist bludgeoning. "Brave New Hell" and "Soul Evisceration" feature pounding, bulldozing riffs, mini guitar solos, and cool, shrill battle cries, making these songs worthy follow ups to the album opener. Elsewhere, "Eaten" is a slower, churning rhythm with an acoustic interlude and a few speaker-shaking bellows; "Bastard Son Of God" is full of grumbling guitars and pounding drums; "The Ascension" successfully incorporates an orchestra into the mix of blazing riffs, rapid fire drums, and ascending guitar solos; and, lastly, "Draped In Disease" is highlighted by a whiplash tempo change, as well as more scorching riffs and jackhammer double bass drumming.

So, all in all, "Nightmares Made Flesh" may not really break down any new walls, but when you consider how condensed and cliche the Swedish metal scene is today, any metalhead would tell you it's great to have Bloodbath back.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resurrecting Death Metal's BRUTAL Aspect!, June 3, 2005

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Mark Morton "crimsontiburon" (Boyertown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nightmares Made Flesh (Audio CD)

It figures it would take a collaboration of some high-profile Swedes to concoct one of the most focused, vicious, and skull-splitting CDs I've heard in a VERY long time. I would be hard pressed to find a more concise, cohesive death metal effort that pierced me to the bone as much as Nightmares Made Flesh does. Consisting of Anders Nyström & Jonas Renkse from Katatonia, Martin Axenrot from Witchery, Swedish metal genius Dan Swanö and razor-throated Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren, Bloodbath could very well be the supergroup to end all supergroups. While some were skeptical about the band's future upon the departure of Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt, Tagtgren's multi-hued howl is not just a perfect replacement, it's actually preferred! While Akerfeldt's roar gave listeners the impression of a rampaging behemoth, Tagtgren's soul-chilling howl makes each song sound as if it's being sung from the depths of the abyss. Nightmares Made Flesh is the kind of death metal CD that makes you want to forget there ever were trends in the DM scene. The album is purely devastating, with gargantuan riffage, Schuldiner-esque melodies and grooves that hearken Mordor's Uruk Hai marches from Lord of the Rings. Each song is a different level of brutal, with Swanö, Nyström, and Renkse splitting writing duties. As a whole, the album could have been Edge of Sanity's follow-up to Purgatory Afterglow had they not explored the conceptual realm of Crimson, but that is another story. You can hear traces of EoS on virtually every track, though Swanö was only responsible for four songs, including the thick-as-hell, doom-fisted "Eaten" - a brooding elegy of masochistic lust - the best song Six Feet Under never wrote. Nightmares Made Flesh is an album designed to remind fledgling metal maniacs of the rampant brutality that dominated the death metal scene prior to the over-saturation of Maiden-istic, neo-melodic, Gothenburg death/thrash and that old dogs, no matter how far they've distanced from the stale waves of metallic trend, still have some very painful tricks up their blood-soaked sleeves.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars F**k Yeah!!!!!!!!!, April 18, 2005

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Brendan "Mayhem Master" Calhoun (Everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightmares Made Flesh (Audio CD)

Bloodbath's Nightmares Made Flesh is pure, unrestrained, original death metal. To me it seems like there isn't very many bands like this anymore that can produce good original death metal but Bloodbath does it on this record. The vocals are really good and the guitars are brutally heavy creating a heavy dark death metal atmosphere. The front cover is kick a$$ too! Get this CD now if you want good death metal.