(Death Metal) Malevolent Creation - Envenomed II - 2002 , APE (image + .cue), lossless

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Malevolent Creation / Envenomed II
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Нет, положительно, death metal в 2000 году натуральным образом "воскрес", дав хо-о-о-о-рошего "пинка под зад" злословам и пессимистам, объявившим о безвременной кончине стиля якобы в связи с "потерей актуальности". Вот и одни из апологетов классического флоридского deathcore Malevolent Creation порадовали отличным альбомом. Знаковые фигуры американского дэта Фил Фашиана (гитара) и Бретт Хоффман (вокал) расстарались вовсю на "Envenomed". Под стать им и другие члены легендарной банды – Роб Барретт (гитара), Гордон Симмс (бас) и Дэйв Калросс (ударные). Все они – профессионалы высокого класса, к тому же талантливые музыканты, вот уже полтора десятилетия сохраняющие верность однажды избранному стилю – неповторимому death metal... "Для нас не существует музыки, кроме death metal" – не устает повторять Фил Фашиана. Что ж, да будет так! Честные слова достойного человека. Главное, что в дэт-металле найдется немного равных Malevolent Creation по уровню, мастерству и таланту... Блестящий релиз! Куски классического американского дэта, перемежаемые элементами дэткора, вдруг взрывающиеся фрагментами настоящего грайндкора, уступающим "пальму первенства" мелодичным проигрышам, характерным, скорее, для европейской модели дэта – вот основные составляющие музыкального ряда на "Envenomed". Кроме того, скорость, мощь, убийственный напор, высочайший уровень исполнения – все фирменные атрибуты Malevolent Creation присутствуют на этом диске. Долго я не мог решить для себя, какой же альбом лучший в творчестве легендарных южан: "Envenomed", "Eternal" или "The Fine Art Of Murder". Лишь чрезвычайно эффективный метод "непосредственного сравнения", когда три альбома загружаются в магазин CD-чейнджера, после чего центр программируется на непрерывное поочередное их прокручивание, дал результат. На третьем круге "сдался" "Eternal", и лишь на пятом мною было принято окончательное решение... Итак, авторитетное мнение Met'а – "Envenomed" – лучший! Более того, можно сказать, что мы имеем дело с одним из лучших death metal releases 2000 года вообще. И это при том, что начало первого прослушивания "Envenomed" несколько насторожило, поскольку заглавная композиция "Homicidal Rant" оказалась достаточно слабой. Но уже следующие боевики "Night Of The Long Knives" и "Kill Zone" продемонстрировали, что рано бежать за успокоительным, дабы "охладить" начавшие пошаливать нервишки в связи с возникшим во время исполнения первой песни серьезным опасением в том, что Malevolent Creation "сдулись". Ну, а далее! А далее описывать все это великолепие можно с трудом – настолько ровно, мощно и профессионально сыграно, что остается лишь разводить руками. Дабы затем свести их. И снова развести, снова свести. И так много раз... Вы, наверное, уже догадались, что я призываю вас к аплодисментам в адрес Malevolent Creation. Ну, а нервишки успокаивать, пожалуй, придется соседям, если я добавлю еще немного громкости во время прокручивания "Envenomed".
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Brutal, but a bit repetitive.
Written by CHRISTI_NS_ANITY8 on November 3rd, 2008
Envenomed is more than probably the most violent output by Malevolent Creation. Its predecessor, The Fine Art of Murder album displayed a more complex and catchy if we want, approach to this genre and featured a long length, while with this one we return to the sheer power of Eternal and In Cold Blood, but with a better production. Malevolent Creation are now a well-established band in death metal and you cannot go wrong if you are searching for your daily dosage of brutal death metal with always an eye to thrash.
More or less 40 minutes of music are perfect to enclose eleven tracks that point everything on the sheer assault of the instruments. I’ve always considered this album as an almost grind/death one because there’s no time to rest here and no will to slow down even for a minute. Everything is conceived by crazy minds to be brutal and heavy and “Homicidal Rent” is ready to explode at the beginning of this massacre. The production is pounding and all the instruments are simply devastating in volumes, distortion and power. The blast beats by the always great Dave Culross are furious and relentless, with his maniacal precision.
Even the more mid-paced moments are full of riffs, stop and go and up tempo parts. Some catchy choruses are actually welcomed and they take lots of their catchiness from The Fine Art of Murder album. Brett is always very good at vocals with his raspy, suffered and angry tonality. His vocals are here to stay, branding each passage and part. The guitars work is simply direct, heavy and blasting. In some parts we can find a small spirit to embrace some melodies, but everything in this case is short and we can have a good example with “Kill Zone”. The melodies are sad but they last for few seconds and they are always covered with blast beats and up tempo parts.
“Halved” is bombastic when the blast beats enter after the dark arpeggios by the beginning, while “Serial Dementia” is on total fast tempo with blast beats and simpler, more direct riffage. “Bloodline Severed” is even greater for the break in the middle where the melodies return a bit over a carpet of fast bass drum beats and we can find even a good solo. Kyle Symons does the backing vocals on “Pursuit Revised” and I’ve always loved his growling style (check out his immense work with Hateplow band). The bass notes are more evident and audible on “Conflict” that featured also another heavy quantity of brutality.
The other songs follow the rest of the album and probably this is the main problem of this effort. Everything is brutal yes, but with The Fine Art of Murder this band makes us notice their goodness even during the more mid-paced moments, while in this case we cannot find them anymore. Apart from that I’ve always found something incomplete on the albums by this band, but here the songs are a bit too much similar and the boredom can invade us in some parts. There are really few albums that can be fantastic in this genre from the beginning till the end…don’t get me wrong, this is a good album but I’d have liked more variety since a quite big part of these fast songs is repetitive and doesn’t really stand out from the rest…
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Brilliant, An absolute must have
Written by transientblur on December 8th, 2003
First off, Malevolent Creation are not known for their variety. If you hear the first track on this cd and don't like it, you won't like the rest, either.
That being said, this is the band's absolute greatest lineup. Phil Fasciana and Robb Barrett on guitar, Gordon Simms on bass, Brett Hoffman (!) on vocals, and THE Dave Culross, who I think to be the most talented drummer in death metal, ever. The production is not perfect, almost like they listened to their classic release Retribution, and turned the dials from too bassy to too trebly. The bass is (as always) buried in the mix, but does rise to the surface a few times during "Kill Zone" and "Serial Dementia". The drums are very well recorded, warm but crisp with an excellent double-bass tone. The guitars have their usual treble (if not a bit weak) tone, and are often panned to the left and right channels throughout the song, making the different guitar harmonies very easy to hear.
The songs themselves are absoltely brilliant, with Brett's voice a little higher, but it definately fits the music. His low, guttural vocals from Retribution would not have gone well with feel of this cd. I think that Brett is one of the best vocalists of all time (A little better then Frank Mullen) because instead of just grunting out lyrics, he shapes his voice around the songs, making his voice create alternate harmonis with the songs to add a whole new level of complexity and makes them that much better. Since it's such an amazingly solid vocal delivery there's no real stand out track. The drumming is also incredible throughout the whole cd, with stand outs being at the 2:40 mid-sections (that they do so well) in "Bloodline Severed" that they do so well, and the weird stutter step at about 1:40 into "Envenomed". Another excellent song on this cd is "Pursuit Revised", a duet with some other lower voiced singer, I'm guessing Kyle Symons (unless that's actually Brett?). With sick lyrics, it comes off as some kind of deranged love song: "I know you feel me when I'm lurking around corners". Perhaps one of the sickest moments in heavy metal history is when Brett's voice starts to crack towards the end of the song, it sounds absolutely insane. ( I know, I know, I can't help but mention his voice all the time, it's just incredible.) The same low voiced vocalist shows up on the breakdown of "Kill Zone" which really adds to the heavyness of the song.
I'm going to stop writing this review now, because soon I'm going to start repeating myself.
This is an absolute must have, there isn't one weak point on the entire album. Plus, if you get the re-released Envenomed II you get 3 bonus songs. Two are from MC's old demo, and one is a cover "Perish In Flames".
Buy this now.