Customer Reviews

This Is My Blood

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Some of you say this is overrated? WTF! This is a killer CD. Yes they could do more but for a first effort this is damn good. The production is very clean and clear. The vocals vary from a hardcore shout to a deathy grind. The guitars are just helacious in the grove factor. The drums fit nicely into every song, They give the whole thing a very strong back-bone compaired to alot of band sin this genre. As I see it, This is a must buy CD. I just can't get enough of it!

Soul Embraced sound invigorated on this release. They plow thru their above-average death metal/power metal material, driven by great drum work and tight arrangments. The emphasis on melody is a nice change from the typical atonal sludge of so many bands. Vocals are very hard-core in style. Good stuff by these members of Living Sacrifice. Worth checking out.

How can this be over-rated?!?!?! This CD has some of the best guitar solo's Rocky Gray ever put out! On track number 4(I forget the name cuz i don't have the CD with me) has the best guitar solo on the cd! The vocals are very unique and I was not expecting them to be the way they are. The vocals are mostly high and breathy, but change to a lower growl often(like on The Scorn OF Deaths Kiss). So just because it is unique does NOT mean it is a bad CD. it may take some getting used to, but give it a chance and i am sure it will grow on you!

Soul Embraced have managed to combine elements of In Flames, "Heartwork" era Carcass, Living Sacrifice style groove, and occasional (not enough, in my opinion) brutality a la Cannibal Corpse. The vocals are mostly of the seething, hissing variety, with occasional melody or low growling parts. The musicianship is not especially technical for death metal, but it is tight and heavy. Lance Garvin's drumwork is extremely tight and impressive as always, and the production quality is quite good as well. The downfall, though, is that this disc just doesn't seem to go anywhere. The songs seem to end before I can really get into them. It's solid, but just kind of average. All in all, I would recommend this if you're into the bands I mentioned above, or if you're into the "new school" style of death metal, but it just doesn't move me the way I hoped it would.

This is the first cd of this artist's (Soul Embraced) that I have purchased; and so far, I think that I am a fan of the group.

The instrumentals are pretty well done... good solos and riffs; the vocals are not the greatest, but are not bad either. There are half screams, half growls... not sure what to call it I supppose, but fairly appeasing nevertheless.

All in all... the group/cd has something to deliver. I would have to say that this cd is "not too bad," and will satisfy the urge for some powerful songs.

Come on guys, we need to be honest here. This is not a great album; it's not even a good album. There are an infinite number of metal albums that run circles around this stuff. The 2001-2003 time frame saw the release of many great extreme metal albums, such as Bloodbath's "Resurrection through Carnage", Hypocrisy's "Catch 22", Enslaved's "Monumension" (in '01) and "Below the Lights" (in '03), Dimmu Borgir's "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" (in '01) and "Death Cult Armageddon" (in '03), Extol's "Synergy", Old Man's Child's "In Defiance of Existence", and on and on. Soul Embraced isn't anywhere close to the same league as these aforementioned releases.

Look, I'm a Christian, guys, and I want to root for the "Christian" bands too, but I have to call it like I see it. I've been listening to death metal for fifteen years, and I know "the good stuff" when I hear it. Soul Embraced is not "the good stuff"; it's tired, substandard, and frankly, embarrassing. The frustrating thing about it is that it should be a good album. Lance Garvin and Rocky Gray are both talented, and they don't have much excuse for hashing out second-rate metal like this. I must say though, I feel much the same way about the two albums Living Sacrifice released with Rocky on guitar as I feel about "This is My Blood". Perhaps Rocky is the weak link.

Anyway, we need to call this album for what it is-junk. It hurts me to say it, but it's the truth. There are death metal and black metal bands out there who make great music and are made up of Christians: Antestor, Crimson Moonlight, Immortal Souls, Alethian, Becoming the Archetype, and a few others. Support these quality bands, but don't settle for second-rate garbage just because it has a "Christian" label on it and it's supposed to be "Jesus Approved". God wants us to use our talents to glorify Him, and in my opinion, if I'm embarrassed to show a Christian album to a secular metal kid, I don't think that's too glorifying to God. I'm not trying to insult the Soul Embraced guys; I believe their hearts were to glorify God, and He loves that, but in the end, I don't think the quality of the music matched the quality of their intentions.

i never get it!! i never received by mail.am up set!!! i had the worts experiences on my life getting stuff by online....

Born of two members from Living Sacrifice, the unholy trio of Soul Embraced embraces death metal's characteristic musical angst with a Southern rock flavor. As expected, the group's standard fare of grindcore vocals, rapid-fire pentatonic guitar blasts, and polyrhythmic drum figures is on demonic display. Yet this time out, Soul Embraced works within a familiar pop song format that leaves plenty of room for melody and chord changes readily known to arena rockers. The bridge of "Angels With Raven Hearts" brazenly adapts a major key progression to the group's lethal canon. "Buried In" and "The Cold Stares of Dead Eyes" are two cuts that tread modern rock radio waters by way of Chad Moore's crooning and Rocky's guitar breaks, which neatly pick out a few blue notes à la Eric Clapton. "Scars Remain" opens with a motif dangerously close to a clichéd air-guitar anthem from the 1980s; however, the commercial slate is wiped clean as soon as the first verse kicks up. In a genre that thrives on formula and repetition, Soul Embraced adds a welcome blast of soul on This Is My Blood. This is an incredibly heavy CD that every metal-head needs. MUCH HEAVIER than Immune, so buy this one if your a TRUE Death Metal fan.

... I know the vocals sound evil, but the lyrics are awesome! These guys are the Christian alternative to bands like Static X and Hatebreed. Soul Embraced's new album is coming out in February so all you people need to prepare because they're going to rock you again!

I love heavy music. But i expected better.