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| | Considered Dead/The Erosion of Sanity | | | Music Artist : | | Gorguts | | Music Style : | | Death Metal | | Record Label : | | Roadrunner Records | | Release Date : | | 2004-07-13 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. ...And Then Comes Lividity
2. Stiff and Cold
3. Disincarnated
4. Considered Dead
5. Rottenatomy
6. Bodily Corrupted
7. Waste of Mortality
8. Drifting Remains
9. Hematological Allergy
10. Inoculated Life
11. With Their Flesh, He'll Create
12. Condemned to Obscurity
13. Erosion of Sanity
14. Orphans of Sickness
15. Hideous Infirmity
16. Path Beyond Premonition
17. Odors of Existence
18. Dormant Misery
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Criminally overlooked - Gorguts rocks
Submitted on: 2008-03-26 |
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If you're here lookin around you're probably a death metal fan of some sort. This re-release is definately worth your money. Both albums are awesome and this band definately brought something new to the table. May not be up to the level of the Obituary 2fers or the Suffocation one but still DAMN good. Do not miss this one!
Considered Dead is consistently good throughout and I can't stress how very underated that album is as it is one of my favorite Death Metal albums period! Erosion is also good but tails off a little at the end. With their flesh, he'll create is a unreal death metal tune. Well worth your money! |
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Two Albums, Both 5 star efforts
Submitted on: 2007-09-24 |
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| Gorguts never got the recognition that it deserves, as if you can probely tell, since there are very few reviews for their albums. Its a shame, since these two albums are not only Death Metal classics, but deserve the praise that bands of the time such as Suffocation, Immolation, Malevolent Creation, Incantation, and Deicide got considering that they all were pioneers of melodic and progressive Death Metal (early 90's) The CD starts out with Gorguts first release, 1991's "Considered Dead" "Considered Dead" is a great debut album, you will already tell that Gorguts has a unique style of death metal which contains elements of early Cannibal Corpse, Malevolent Creation, and Immolation. It is a pretty staight forward Death Metal album, nothing to fancy, but brutal, and intelligent song writing and great musicanship. As you get to Gorguts second release which is 1993's "Erosion of Sanity" you will hear a remarkable difference from "Considered Dead" Gorguts now enters a whole new realm with complicated musical struture, with melodies that are harsh and brutal, sometimes even out of tune (done on purpose) and drumming by Stephane Provencher who in my mind, is might have been one of the best in the genere at the time. His uses his entire drum kit to the T. No dragging or lag time, and no going so fast that he is ahead of the rest of the band. When you listen, and hopefully you will be adding this into your cart soon, you will see what I mean. "ErOsion of Sanity" is described in the linear notes (by CKY's Darren Miller_, as "Many fans were blown away by and confused by initial listen..It was way too much to take in." This is so true. I was completely blown away from when I first heard it, and it was something I had playing in the background while I was doing some computer work. I felt I had to sit back in my sofa, with no distractions, and just absorb all that was going on. After each listen, you will hear something that you didnt realize before. It is that complicated, but that good. This is one of the best Death Metal albums (well two, "Considered Dead is outstanding also, but much easier to take it) of all time. Just like Pink Floyds "Dark side of the Moon" and the Beatles "Abby Road" is the rock,Metallica's "Master of Puppets is to Thrash, Smashing Pumpkins "Infinate Sadness..." and Nivanas "Nevermind" is the grunge rock, and Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" is to jazz, "Considered Dead" and "Erosion of Sanity" is to Death Metal. I think you get my point...please please please pick up this album, you wont be dissapointed...... |
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Sweet Deal!
Submitted on: 2007-08-09 |
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This is basically a 2-for-1 deal here. It's really nice, because you get to hear the earlier works from such an amazing and talented band, a.k.a. the Roadrunner Records days. Both albums are on one disc, which frees you from the two-disc hassle of 2-for-1 albums. Let me give a mini-review on each album on this CD:
"Considered Dead" - This CD was released in 1991, a strong year for death metal. This CD has excellent riffs like none other, especially in tracks such as "Disincarnated" and "Stiff and Cold". You may notice that this is quite similar to Suffocation's "Effigy of the Forgotten", but it stands out with higher pitched vocals. Wonderful debut.
"The Erosion of Sanity" - The band focuses more on technicality on their 1993 sophomore album. It starts off with "Condemned To Obscurity", with a spine-tingling piano part, then a solo, and then a wicked sweeping riff, and then the song. The whole CD is still in the vein of early 90's tech-death and it is composed well.
Unfortunately, it was a year after "The Erosion of Sanity" was released that Roadrunner dropped them because "death metal wasn't cool anymore". Give me a break, Roadrunner. But then again, I forgive them somewhat for re-releasing these two gems. A must buy for death metal fans. |
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Hail
Submitted on: 2006-03-21 |
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Roadrunner sucks majorly, that has been established; but these 2-for-1 things seem pretty cool, in comparison to digging out over $20+ dollars for two 10 year old albums. With that said, if you consider yourself a fan of death metal, Considered Dead and Erosion of Sanity should already be in your collection. If they're not, look for an "add to cart" button. It should be where it normally is, but who knows. Maybe Gorguts is just awesome enough to forcefully re-arrange a page layout, as well as listeners' entrails. One of the reasons old-school death metal is so cool is because, every band had a different pool of influence. Every band sounded different, and no band at that point strived for faceless grunting "brutality." Gorguts is no exception, with their early example of technical precision, and dark layered harmonies hidden somewhere between the correlation of buzzsaw guitars and frenetic bass lines.
Considered Dead marks Gorguts' first spash into the death metal scene. It wasn't really recieved as well as peers like Death and Deicide to be called a "splash," so maybe a better analogy is "underwater creature that stealthily eats whales and sailors." Considered Dead was a every bit as morbid of a declaration as other landmark old school releases such as Leprosy and Cause of Death, but Gorguts infused a biting sense of technicality that went beyond rapid tempo changes. Well-integrated pitch-harmonics and shuffling time signatures offered a cryptic hint of things to come.
The Erosion of Sanity would later be deemed one of the best death metal records of the early nineties. The band pushed beyond the cookie-cutter production of Considered Dead, and a new-found crispness allowed Gorguts' riffs to evolve into more gutwrenching beasts. Bass lines and squeeling guitars swarmed into some almost jazzy scales, before dispersing into some minimalist death metal framework. There was no lack of variety here, with the said intricacies and acoustic/piano parts. Luc's vocals were better than ever, with a mid-ranged growls that easily descended into more bassy Chris Barnes-esque grunts. This album took a while to get used to, so if you're looking for instant musical gratification, look elsewhere. The riffs make a little more sense every time you listen to it, until you reach some sort of nirvana where your mind just "clicks" with the music, and you get a satisfying sense of: "I get it now!" These Canadians never quite got the attention that would ever make their name known by mainstream tadpoles, making Gorguts one of death metal's best hidden gems.
- Thus says the Pellington |
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lucky new combers
Submitted on: 2006-01-27 |
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| In my mind this is a DM classic. Considered Dead and The Erosion of Sanity were classics by themselves. You should feel very fortunate that they released this gem. I was probably one of the few that bought these cd's when they first came out...10+ years later these albums easily stand out among the great DM bands that we have today. The erosion of sanity sounds very different from considered dead, but both are very good, so you really are getting two masterpieces for the price of one. |
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