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| | Warkult | | | Music Artist : | | Malevolent Creation | | Music Style : | | Death Metal | | Record Label : | | Nuclear Blast Americ | | Release Date : | | 2004-07-27 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Dead March
2. Preemptive Strike
3. Supremacy Through Annihilation
4. Murder Reigns
5. Captured
6. Merciless
7. Section 8
8. On Grounds of Battle
9. Tyranic Oppression
10. Ravaged by Conflict
11. Shock and Awe
12. Jack the Ripper [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 One of the most persistent American Death Metal bands ever
Submitted on: 2008-01-06 |
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After the lackluster "Will to Kill", MC still returns less than 2 years later on a new label with an album that has only one original member: Phil Fasciana. He is the glue that keeps the tenuous DM ship known as Malevolent Creation together. Rob Barrett (beginning from Retribution-era MC) didn't jump ship which was nice and they even got Dave Culross back on drums which should've been a plus. "Warkult" doesn't even match the previous album and may go down as the most bland, effortless, most hastily made Malevolent Creation album.
The guitars chug endlessly along, often indecipherably and with the signature crunchy tone that peppers every MC album. Symons vocals are even more flat than before. There are much worse Death Metal vocalists to be sure, but even Jason Blachowicz was more convincing on vox. The only good thing I can say about him is that he has some degree of range, if only he'd use it more. Culross (drums), easily the best instrument on this album, is the only thing that saves this album from becoming a one star review. The songs blend too much together and there are no stand out tracks. The album concept...what, are they trying to jack the Bolt Thrower concept?
Malevolent Creation is a great Death Metal band, and their persistence has paid off before with the likes of great albums like "Envenomed" and the more varied "Eternal" and the classic "Retribution". All you have to do is wait for Hoffmann to come back, get some of the original members and you'll have a worthwhile album. I can only recommend this to the MC completist, which you will inevitably become if you check out their earlier works. |
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Disappointing
Submitted on: 2006-08-15 |
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First off, I like Malevolent Creation. Envenomed was very good. But to be honest, there's no post-Hoffman material worth listening to. Yeah, there's an image of a tank on the cover and it's heavy and br00tal and anyone who doesn't like it is a mallgoth poser [or whatever], but this album is simply boring. Kyle Symons proves to be one of death metal's most uncharismatic vocalists album after album, and more importantly, the band's sense of creativity and life has seemingly departed. It's easy to string together some chugging palm-muted guitar licks and call yourself death metal, but if those riffs can't serve a higher artistic purpose, it's a lost cause. I gave this album multiple chances, and whenever I hear it, I just hear one-dimensional, generic death metal. Even the awesome Dave Culross couldn't save this one.
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 An enjoyable album
Submitted on: 2006-06-27 |
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Reviewers have complained about the production of the CD, but I really dont have a problem with it. If you ever liked Malevolent Creation, you will probably like this CD. Their ability to write memorable songs clearly is what puts this band over the top compared to a band like Disgorge or Deeds of Flesh. Not to knock those two bands, but a song like Section 8 or Shock and Awe easily sticks in your mind more than any song by Deeds or Disgorge.
Recommended ! |
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A different-sounding Malevolent Creation
Submitted on: 2006-06-01 |
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Warkult is actually Malevolent Creation's most accessible album. However, that is not saying much because not many Death Metal bands have the idea to make their albums accessible. Exceptions to this are Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus, who are the most accessible Death Metal bands (somewhat for Dying Fetus, though).
The music is a little different this time around. Kyle Symons, the HatePlow vocalist who provided vocals for The Will To Kill and a couple of songs in Envenomed, assumes the role as lead singer. Performance-wise, he's actually the worst of the 3 vocalists in Malevolent Creation. His growls are so generic albeit decipherable that he can't even come second to Jason Blachowicz in vocal duties and both definitely can't hold a torch for Brett Hoffmann, who is easily the best vocalist of this band.
The sound production of this album is quite unbalanced. The guitars are too loud and the bass is nearly inaudible. The drums are okay sounding. I can now hear the frequency of solos in this album, a work rarely done in their past albums since The Ten Commandments and Retribution. However, only 5-7 songs have solos. The best song in this album is Tyrannic Oppression. I admit that Symons' performance is above average in that song. Warkult also features a cover track of a highly obscure Thrash/Death Metal band from Australia called Hobbs' Angel of Death. The cover song is quite well done for a Death Metal band.
After hearing all the songs in this album, this isn't considered one of the best that Malevolent Creation has to offer. But they are still an impressive Death Metal band even though they are quite underrated. Recently, I have heard that they are making a new album called Doomsday X and they have brought back the original vocalist Brett Hoffmann(!), Jon Rubin, and bassist/(at times) vocalist Jason Blachowicz while Dave Culross, Gordon Simms, Rob Barrett, and Kyle Symons left the band, leaving Phil Fasciana (who I believe to be the most impressive DM guitarist) to be the only consistent member of the band. This is good news, but without Dave Culross (who I believe to be the most talented drummer in Death Metal in terms of precision, originality, and speed), I don't know if there will be impressive drumming in their next album.
This is not a bad album per se but Malevolent Creation are capable of so much more. If you claim to like Malevolent Creation yet have a strong distaste for Brett Hoffmann's vocals and like either Kyle Symons' or Jason Blachowicz's vocals, you are not considered a true fan of Malevolent Creation (Deathz Head, you're one of them).
79/100 |
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 they come with all cannons blazing!
Submitted on: 2006-01-14 |
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| Malevolent Creation never fails to release a good album. case in point: the "Warkult" album. they gone astray from the path they usually walk on, which is murder, to a new path: war. they managed to cover "Jack the Ripper" by an obscure Australian band, Hobbs Angel Of Death, which definitely made a nice touch on this cd. how ironic, they have a song called "Shock and Awe" which seems to be their program with every album. they don't exactly cause peoples' mouths to drop to the ground (that's Krisiun's job) but they still impress. |
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