The Rites

Genocide (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: Satanic Lust Records
• ASIN: B000N4OBPS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,571,185 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Live recordings from the legendary Japanese Metal band Genocide. Track listing as follows: 1. SE : Profondo Rosso 2. Gibakurei 3. Doomsday 4. A Bullet In Wrong Heart 5. Ibitsu 6. Midnight (Come She Will) 7. Living Legend 8. Gibakurei 9. Doomsday 10. A Bullet In Wrong Heart 11. Shock You 12. Living Legend

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5.0 out of 5 stars Raw and Very Much Alive!, October 11, 2009

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This review is from: The Rites (Audio CD)

This is a single CD disc release by cult metal band Genocide (Nippon), hewn from two distinct live slots in time it is entitled The Rites. Released in all its raw edged finery this album has all that you would care to taste from a live bootleg. It has that rough edge, the ear-bleed noise, the sonic hammering, the feedback, the sublime closeness to the eager listener and all the brusque emotions which that embues!

Free from studio tinkering, soundboard meddling and cosmetic remodelling you get a simple noisy lesson in frank candor recorded from within the audience. In terms of that live metal atmosphere it is 100% Jimmy Approved!

There is no finer tribute to this cult Metal band than sampling them alive and in full-on metal mode, blistering and bloody!
The slice of fried gold you have here provides two eras from the band's history the first a quality bootleg sample from 2000 and the other a searing recording in all its sordid frightfulness from the deepest recesses of 1984.

It is the Year 2000 and all its live guitar-laden delights which offer the best cuts on the album. For a start you have to bow to a band who chooses Goblin's superlative Profondo Rosso as an overture to their appearance on stage!
The use of the wonderous Goblin theme stirs one's heart to tingle and beat that bit faster anticipating the Heavy Metal wizardy which indeed follows. By the time the doomy instrumental "Gibakurei" forces its wicked way into your consciousness 'tis already to late to back out. Then, then the double axe laced treat coupled with the most amazing vocals guides the listener toward something akin to audio paradise in the song "Doomsday". This is Genocide' at their most coarsely unleashed best, you sense in this ready, willing 'bootleg' that the crowd loves the sounds which is pounding them senseless. And why not?
For the listener will already spellbound by the whirlwind bestowed upon them from the very outset.

Next up is the clever "A Bullet In The Wrong Heart", with its ingenious switching riffs that literally rips this listener's head and heart from their anchoring sinew. The dual guitar melodies work wonders on this song and remains a favourite of mine.

Both the 2000 and the 1984 sets culminate with the ultimate epic Genocide' masterpiece song, the truly great Living Legend with its double axe frenzy flair of extraordinary audio magic. Once you succumb to this song your craving simply demands a repeat play. I urge you to listen to this at night in the dark, headphoned up and let the whole absolute forces of Heavy Metal elation be visited upon you as Genocide' lets rip with a raw but irreproachable journey back to the halycon 1970/80s and its metal euphoria.