TWELVE YEARS OF UNWANTED OPINION
This later-career effort from Sepultura is a decent, well-rounded release of metallic goodness. It is, admittedly, my first experience with such, outside of a cursory listen to A-Lex several years ago, and I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love how, despite how drastically different this record sounds to the Sepultura of old, that there is still tribal drumming cropping up now and then. Great stuff.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Graveyard, but I have friends who adore them. So when this dropped, I added it to my To Do list, and I typical Lines In Wax fashion, it’s taken me 6 years to get around to giving it a proper listen and commit it to the virtual collection. I’m getting better, and as I get older my ducks are more and more in a line but there’s still a bunch of releases that slipped through the cracks. Anyway, this is a warm production with a full sound, which lends itself fantastically to the music. It took me a while to get used to those vocals but they fit perfectly. I love the guitar tone and I love the softer moments (surprisingly) more than the rockier parts. Great stuff. I’ll have to fish out some more Graveyard one day.
This one has been on the list for a while. Always been a fan of Kate’s unusual voice and the kinda spiritual instrumentation used, even at the peak of 80s synthesizers. Hounds Of Love really shows off Kate’s intense and mesmerising vocal performances, and there are some very interesting twists in the song writing. Lovely stuff.
Rammstein’s most recent, self-titled (untitled?0 outing was a streamlined affair of elements taken from several of the more recent releases, but seemingly with that trademark perverted sleaze taken out. Unsure if Lindemann is getting his kinky demons exorcised in his solo project, but Rammstein seems a little sterile. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just that the music now has to speak for itself, with the dumbed down gimmick.
