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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Akercocke remain one of britains most unique extreme bands. Their unusual blend of death, black and progressive music went to new levels on the last album, "Choronzon" and here it steps up yet again.
I loved Choronzon, but the only criticism i had of it was that it was a bit fragmented. You had your straight up death metal bits, your frosty black metal bits, and your progressive melodic bits. All of these on thier own were excellent adaptations of the style, but sometimes they seemed to me a bit bolted together. A criticism you cannot level at "Words...".
A lot has been made of the arrival of aussie guitarist Matt Wilcock, and perhaps his impact on this album is what Akercocke needed to bring everything in line. The metal parts of this album now thrash and bludgeon more than before, and the musicianship is impeccable as ever. But the best thing about this album is the way it mixes everything up, and comes out with some of the best songs Akercocke have done. The melodies that creep into songs like Shelter from the sand are nothing short of beautiful, and Akercocke now don't seem frightened to string out a good melody or harmony without interjecting it with a blastbeat. Not to say they don't, in places, but the variety is great.
A big step forward A+
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had this sent to me in Thailand for my birthday, as I couldn't wait to get home before buying it. This was due entirely to the fact that Akercocke's two previous releases are simply the best things to have come out of the british extreme metal scene in ages !!!
With "Goat of Mendes", you have a pretty straight forward death/black cross over record, worthy of massive praise for its slightly different approach to the whole sound.
Then came the Delectable Choronzon, with its super-fast riffing, mind bending drumming and very original vocal patterns (something that really sets this lot apart from the pack).
So what about this new album? Well it doesn't have any massivly well endowed women on the cover, so thats a first.
Secondly, its just about as innovative as you can get when you are talking about extreme metal. And it is "extreme metal", not "death" metal, or "black" metal.
It has mixes of death metal and black metal, of course. Its Akercocke !! But its so much more than that.
The opening track, Verdelet, starts with a typical Akercocke death blast and Jason Mendonca gutteral bellow, but a few verses in and there is a real softening of the pace, and some clean vocals...infact, quite a lot of clean vocals.
The riffing on this particular track, when it all gets going again is enough to induce some serious trauma to the neck if head banging is your thing.(a common trend through out).
Track 3, Shelter from the sand, has one of the best vocal openings of any Akercocke song known to man. Mendonca reminds me of David Vincent with his deep, proud speaking style, usually followed by a totally unintelligable death growl, or high pitched black scream.
I'm not going to describe every track, but I will say that there is some electronica on here, some sampled vocals and a hell of a lot of switching (seamlessly mind you) between death metal, black metal, avantegarde moments and everything in between !!!
Mendonca was quoted as describing this album as " getting Terrorizer and Rush, throwing them in alift and letting them have a big fight".
Kind of.....
This album is not as "extreme" as previous offerings in that it has far more breaks from the all out death riffing, or black metal blasting of the previous albums. Its more refined, intelligent, and for want of a better word "grown up".
A thoroughly brilliant album.
Brilliant.........
With "Goat of Mendes", you have a pretty straight forward death/black cross over record, worthy of massive praise for its slightly different approach to the whole sound.
Then came the Delectable Choronzon, with its super-fast riffing, mind bending drumming and very original vocal patterns (something that really sets this lot apart from the pack).
So what about this new album? Well it doesn't have any massivly well endowed women on the cover, so thats a first.
Secondly, its just about as innovative as you can get when you are talking about extreme metal. And it is "extreme metal", not "death" metal, or "black" metal.
It has mixes of death metal and black metal, of course. Its Akercocke !! But its so much more than that.
The opening track, Verdelet, starts with a typical Akercocke death blast and Jason Mendonca gutteral bellow, but a few verses in and there is a real softening of the pace, and some clean vocals...infact, quite a lot of clean vocals.
The riffing on this particular track, when it all gets going again is enough to induce some serious trauma to the neck if head banging is your thing.(a common trend through out).
Track 3, Shelter from the sand, has one of the best vocal openings of any Akercocke song known to man. Mendonca reminds me of David Vincent with his deep, proud speaking style, usually followed by a totally unintelligable death growl, or high pitched black scream.
I'm not going to describe every track, but I will say that there is some electronica on here, some sampled vocals and a hell of a lot of switching (seamlessly mind you) between death metal, black metal, avantegarde moments and everything in between !!!
Mendonca was quoted as describing this album as " getting Terrorizer and Rush, throwing them in alift and letting them have a big fight".
Kind of.....
This album is not as "extreme" as previous offerings in that it has far more breaks from the all out death riffing, or black metal blasting of the previous albums. Its more refined, intelligent, and for want of a better word "grown up".
A thoroughly brilliant album.
Brilliant.........
Format:Audio CD
Akercocke have released one of the most innovative metal albums of the decade, and this is it. A furious mixture of Prog/Black/Death/metal that flows seamlessy together in a grandoise and frightening formula is what puts this album high above the rest of the stale metal scene.
There are so many atmospheres and such a grand scale of dynamics that you can listen to this over and over and never grow bored. The vocals cross over from death growls, to behind-the-mix black metal shrieks, to gothic singing perfectly in sync with the rest of the band. There are very melodic passages, blinding death/black metal madness and even at times a tinge of electronica, but none of the elements ever overpower each other. This album lacks absolutely nothing.
There are so many atmospheres and such a grand scale of dynamics that you can listen to this over and over and never grow bored. The vocals cross over from death growls, to behind-the-mix black metal shrieks, to gothic singing perfectly in sync with the rest of the band. There are very melodic passages, blinding death/black metal madness and even at times a tinge of electronica, but none of the elements ever overpower each other. This album lacks absolutely nothing.
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One Of The Best Albums Of 2005
I have not been listening to Akercocke for that long, only a few years, but after listening to Goat Of Mendes I was hooked. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2007 by Arcturia
Absolutely stunning.
I'd been listening to Akercocke infrequently since I saw them in 2001. I never actually bought any of their albums until this one last year. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2006 by Warren D.
Another brilliant album.
I was more than happy when I saw a new album by Akercocke.
Well it took me a few listens, about 5, to realise that I really liked this album. Read more
Well it took me a few listens, about 5, to realise that I really liked this album. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2006 by Mr. Thomas M. Gane
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