Customer Reviews

Unsilent Death

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Gotta be honest, 2010 was an underwhelming year for metal as far as I'm concerned; at least when compared to an epic 2009, with amazing releases from Between the Buried and Me, Mastodon, Baroness, Converge, Vektor, Krallice, and Sunn O))). Last year, new releases from bands like High on Fire, Kylesa, and The Sword were really underwhelming me, and meanwhile the only records I really cared for were the new Dillinger Escape Plan, Agalloch, and the 2 new Ocean Collective albums. But then Nails kicked down the door of my music trajectory, and I found that one metal masterpiece I needed this year.

The 30-second opener "Conform" is one of the most explosive, if not THE most explosive, album openers I've ever heard. These guys just blast in without any introductions or other bull****. And from then on, the next 13 1/2 minutes of your life is filled with some of the most intense, heavy, punishing music you're gonna hear all year. If these 3 guys have anything as far as performance goes, it's fury. I haven't heard music with this much of an anger management problem in a long, long time. And I mean that in the best possible way. This will kick your ass in a way you'd never expect.

Alot of the shorter tracks on here sport a ton of grindcore influence, but the instruments are beefier and the production is better than nearly any grindcore release I've heard. That should be no surprise considering Kurt Ballou from Converge produced this album, and brought the same relentless, punishing sound he's been bringing on the last 4 Converge albums. And needless to say, it works wonders here. As mentioned, the guitars are heavy and beefy as hell, the drums furious, and while the bass usually blends in with the guitar and supplies the blunt low end, when it separates from the guitar as in the breakdown/interlude/guitar solo of the title track, it adds so much rhythm and dark color to the overall sound of the record. And speaking of breakdowns, you're probably gonna hear some of the best you've ever heard on this release; just consult such breakdowns as the one near the end of "Scum Will Rise", and you'll see what I mean. And how can I forget that while most of these tracks don't surpass the two minute mark, the two that do (the title track and the closer "Depths") really compensate for their lengths, and the latter track really ends the album on a surprisingly slower, more brooding way than how it started.

It's all great stuff, really. Judging by the list of bands I liked in 2009, you might assume that I'm the kinda guy that's into the more sludge/progressive/experimental side of metal, you'd be correct. But every once in a while, I want some metal that won't do anything other than kick my ever-loving ass, and this album does for its entire 13 minute length. If you want that kind of metal album, I could not recommend this more.

Good speed metal music from a band I heard on internet radio.

While I like this CD the songs themself are very short hense the 3 star rating.

Title says it all, this release is amazing. I find it hard to enjoy music as much these days because everything sounds the same, but not these guys, this band to me sticks out like a sore thumb. Amazing guitars, where he finds the time to keep so busy with his hands and blast out killer vocals i will never know; the breakdowns will also have you nodding away, very very catchy and sick, drumming well thrash. A very busy album for the short amount of time but not confusing, very well structured. I was a little worried about the duration of the tracks, usually like them to be little longer with this genre but Nails and 'Nailed' it on the head with these, just enought time for each track. Unsilent Death (the breakdown is fantastic) is my favourite track following closely behind Scum will Rise but overall really theyre all good. Get it because you wont regret it, seriously nothing short of a masterpiece.