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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's The Way Of All Flesh, December 3, 2004
This is one of my favorite Malevolent Creation albums in my collection. I bought it in late 1993 along with Sepultura's Beneath The Remains and Napalm Death's Harmony Corruption and Death By Manipulation. I bought all the albums on cassette. Before this album came out, the band was going through a rough time which almost caused the band to break up. They were having personal problems as well as problems with their labal Roadrunner Records. So this is actually the band's last album on Roadrunner. The band also looses their legendary lead vocalist Brett Hoffmann. So this is the band's last album with Brett for a while. However, he will rejoin the band again for The Fine Art Of Murder and Envenomed but will be kicked out of the band again but for the final time. This will be before The Will To Kill. Anyway, the band was going through some tough times and when this album came out, a lot of people thought it was a piece of garbage even the band itself. Me personally, I didn't know that all of this stuff was going on at the time. I was just a dedicated Malevolent Creation fan who just went on buying any album that the band puts out. So that's what I kept doing. I bought this album along with the other items that I mentioned and when I got around to playing this album, I was blown away by the first song Dominated Resurgency. I was so happy that I rewinded the tape back and listened to it again. The rest of the album ripped.
Now before my review, let me say this. Like I said before, many people and even the band itself thought that this album was a piece of garbage but there were others who thought quite the opposite. Any person who get this album now might have the first opinion or the other. So I'm just going to let the listener be the judge. As for myself, I will review the album based on what I think.
Now for my review. Despite the bad critsism that this album gets, I personally think that it's just as good as any Malevolent Creation album. The basic elements of the band are still here. You still have lots of agression, intensity, intimidation, fierceness, heaviness, brutality, speed, mid-paced and slow songs, harsh vocals, solos and evil tones. So you pretty much get the total package just like with every other album in the band's catalog. So give this album a chance. Some of my favorite songs here are Dominated Resurgency, The Way Of All Flesh, Dominion Of Terror, Stillborn, Ethnic Cleansing and Disciple Of Abhorrence. Get this album and become stillborn.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
i...am...still...BORN!!!, October 5, 2003
By A Customer
ok, this is my first malevolent creation album, and i must say, at first i didnt like it at all, considering the production is horrible, and hoffmans vocals are not what they were on their 2 earlier releases,but after giving it more of a listen, i really like it alot. every song on here is good, and catchy. the only song i dont like is "geared for gain." its only a personal opinion. the lyrics are good, and the guitair work is excellent. but, the drummer, isnt too good. he kind of lacks a bit, and doesnt really flow too well. with the exception of the horrible production, somewhat sloppy drumming, and hoffman not sounding how he did on the 2 earlier releases, its really a good album. i like it alot, better that ETERNAL, and i hope to get more brett hoffman-era malevolent creation. peace..
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
To give ANYTHING 5 stars isn't warrented, but, June 8, 2006
this album does not deserve all the slagging it gets. Stillborn was my first exposure to MC. I was working at a music review mag in NYC in the early-mid 90s, when this cassette came into the office. i was supposed to write a review then. but i only listened to it once and didn't really pay attention... it was death-metal (read: UGH!!).
Anyway, about a year later i was going thru some forgotten music. Stillborn... Malevolent Creation... hmmm. Well, just think about hearing Dominated Resurgency for the very first time. before you've really listened to it? I was big into nyhc in the mid-late 80s, so i'm no stranger to hard-as-nails combat (btw: if you like this album then check out Rest In Pieces - My Rage). all in 1 night's time.
For me, the highlights are DR, Stillborn, Ethnic Cleansing and D o Aborrance. They happen to be the BEST MC songs i've heard to date. I've recently dld'ed 10C and Rtrbtion. I also have Best of and Warkult. Best of really doesn't count, though.
These 4 songs have riffage, groove, changes, synchopation (thanks in large part to Hoffman's lyrical timing).
I think this album is also very well produced, unlike most other people here.
I am not a fan of death-metal as a whole. and there are other types of "metal" that i think are shamefully, pathetically idiotic. I don't know what the heck Everytime I Die is, but i wish they and every last one of those types of sing-songey/screech-fest bands would die. and what the eff is Korn/limpbizkit/i-don't-know-wtf-else. Them and that Phoney, eye-contact/makeup-wearing, poodle-walker of a marilynn-manson.
I mean, wtf? In Flames? Nobody cares anymore. nobody tries. there is no revlolution. we have all been "televized". even the rebelion is wearing clothes from the same chain store, in a suburban mall subdivision. there's the new rebelion age.
I think this album is worth the price just for these songs. and if the others happen to grow on you, then that's good too.
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