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| | Blood Oath | | | Music Artist : | | Suffocation | | Music Style : | | Death Metal | | Record Label : | | Nuclear Blast Americ | | Release Date : | | 2009-07-14 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Blood Oath
2. Dismal Dream
3. Pray for Forgiveness
4. Images of Purgatory
5. Cataclysmic Purification
6. Mental Hemorrhage
7. Come Hell or High Priest
8. Undeserving
9. Provoking the Distrubed
10. Marital Decimation
11. Pray for Forgiveness [Instrumental Version][*]
12. Dismal Dream [Rough Mix Un-Mastered]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 It's a great album
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
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| I'm not a huge Suffocation fan but I've listened to and owned most of their records. I didn't get into there last one but this is a solid enough effort to make me think they are still progressing. The vocals are a little stale for this type of technical musicianship, but it doesn't really ruin the sound, it's just kind of there. I like the production, especially the drums...very powerful. The riffs are interesting and catchy. I can understand if some folks don't dig this, but it's good stuff. Much better than most modern metal. |
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 This is killer!!!! Thinking mans death metal!!!!!!!
Submitted on: 2009-09-24 |
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| Please ignore the negative reviews!!!!! This cd is killer!!!!! Are you still reading this? Why? Go out and buy this now!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Legends of death metal do it again
Submitted on: 2009-09-02 |
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| Suffocation the legends of death metal do it again on Blood Oath. These guys still play great after so many years this may be one of the best yet. I would not second guesss buying this |
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The metal masters show us how it's done yet again.
Submitted on: 2009-08-18 |
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Those expecting another Pierced will be disappointed. Let's be serious that was one of the best albums of all time in any genre, and might just be the best death metal album of all time. It is the perfect statement of everything that death metal is and should be.
However... this album rocks! Since reforming Suffocation has consistently put out some of the most brutal, quality metal available on the market. One of the things I absolutely love about Blood Oath is that it is reminiscent of Pierced, a lot more so than Souls to Deny (which is a great album in its own right). It is very technical and relies more on straight forward, in your face brutality than evil sounding melodies. The only minor gripe I have is that I wish Frank Mullen would use his ultra-low guttural voice that he used sparingly, mostly on breakdowns, in Pierced. But this is less of a gripe than a preference, so don't let that stop you from enjoying the sonic mayhem that is Blood Oath. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. |
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Welcome to 1995. Again
Submitted on: 2009-08-16 |
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It's tough not to have somewhat mixed feelings about Suffocation's latest. Make no mistake, Suffocation remain consummate professionals, unleashing a storm of crunchy, precise riffs and pounding, machine-like drumming. Some will try and tell you how "Blood Oath" is different from other Suffocation releases, but these will invariably be pedantic points. Sure, it's a bit slower overall and emphasizes atmospheric melodicism slightly more, but this is fundamentally the same work they've put out for the past 15 years. Though metalheads love to whine about "selling out," the more common temptation is to give their known audience exactly what they want, and Suffocation steadily is settling in to doing just that.
On one level, you have to admire their commitment: Suffocation broke up and then returned to find that most of the significant death metal made in their absence drew heavily from and expanded on their own work. Instead of going with the flow, however, Suffocation ignored the followers and continued putting out the sort of metal they innovated. The trouble, however, that the sound just isn't as powerful as it once was. Though Suffocation is credited as a major founder of both brutal and technical death metal, "Blood Oath" is not especially intense or complex by modern standards. This is now true of "Pierced From Within," of course, but that classic is saved by the extremely high level of the songwriting and the fact that it was relatively distinct. (The somewhat rawer, more brute production doesn't hurt either.) Now that Suffocation has put out "Pierced From Within" II, III and IV, however, the simple distinction of their specific voice is wearing thin. "Blood Oath" is still a quality album with a number of especially effective songs (the title track is impressively dynamic as always, as is the epic "Provoking the Disturbed," and "Dismal Dream" throws in some nice atmosphere, breaking a little new ground), and they still manage an impressive mix of invariably intriguing riffs. But the fact remains that the songwriting isn't as strong as it was on "Pierced From Within" or "Souls to Deny" (many have turned on that, but I think it's excellent), and this, combined with the stagnating sound, is transforming Suffocation from the band that revolutionized the genre to one of those bands that put out the same damn album again and again. The material is still strong enough that I've no doubt that I'll pick up their next release, but I hope they start moving forward again at some point.
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