Altars of Badness

some of the riffage is very tasty

There’s a good chance that the material works better live, but overall the album is the equivalent of bringing Kelly Brook home and having her throw up all over your records.

I liked the look of the keyboards, sort of like spaceships. I was hoping for some more interesting looking keyboards, but I will take what they have to offer. The background images were great and didn’t take me away from the show too much. I liked the spacesuit images the best.

When I was watching Brainclaw perform, it was more like watching a band, because they are actually playing the synths. One of the best parts of the live performance was that there were live drums used. Let me tell you, the live drums made the music even better live.

No words.

While Heaven Wept seem to have the phrase “underrated” surgically attached to them, as if it’s impossible for journalists to write about them without praising them to the heavens leaving you wondering why more people don’t praise them just as fanatically. 

Let’s try to get the album name right at least. 

We had gone over to cover this very gig for Grave Concernsand from the very moment we got to The Corporation everything was perfect.  So, we did our usual of heading to The Corporation via a decent rock pub on the way which was on this occasion The Nelson

Tell us more……

“Deathcore, known as the mix between Hardcore and Metal, with Death Metal influences. Such bands as All Shall Perish, Job For A Cowboy, and a whole bunch more coming there way into the new Metal scene. With all these bands, your thinking, not another generic Death Metalcore band with lame predictable breakdowns talking about Shredded wheat. In comes band, Winds of Plague, hailing from Upland, California.”

“Starting when you put the disk into the player you first notice something different, the keyboards used. This isn’t a trick, this isn’t just used in the intro only, this is Winds of Plague.”

“the keyboards play a huge role in adding a haunting/epic feeling to the songs. Almost like how Nile, and Egyptian themed Death Metal band, does.”

“One other stand out song that comes in mind in this album is Reloaded. Reloaded is almost Punk Death Metal, the style in which chanting is dominate, and the vocal style you would often here with heavy hardcore influenced bands. The song is a nice change but often I listen to it, it becomes more and more obvious it just doesn’t belong in the album, and the lyrics are quite lame.”

“The high points of this album is the great use of the keyboards, probably one of the better albums I’ve heard from a hardcore influenced band. Instead of making it as like the keyboards were just thrown in there to make it sound cooler, it actually adds to the music”

“Overall, I really enjoyed this album even after 10 listens”

EVEN AFTER 10 WHOLE LISTENS.

It also helped that I brought someone along to tell me what songs they were playing etc. I know have a new understanding and appreciation of new and classic metal. Slayer is definitely a metal icon that all bands should look up to and only hope that they can also be around 25 years later and still have the devoted fan bas as these guys do. Slayer was one of the most defined, influential, and extreme thrash metal bands from the 1980s and after seeing them for the first time, I now know why they are so popular among metal heads and even some Goths. 

The white text on white background gives the whole thing a minimalist appeal which I like.

A lot of Power Metal bands are going to be scared by this album – they’re going to have to work very hard to come up with albums anywhere near this quality.  Blood of the saints is a superb power metal album, and for me its the best power metal album of the year so far.

Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal. Power metal.  

Now in 2010 the band are about to release what has to be the band’s biggest and best album to date. To be honest before this album I’d not heard anything the band have released to date

“has to be the band’s biggest and best album to date” out of the 1 albums I have heard.

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