great old-metal - great slow-paced metal. anyone that likes chris barnes will like this album. if you like old stuff, this is for you.this is like a pre-cannibal corpse band
My first death metal album! - This album was my first death metal album, I found it after whining to some friends that I was getting bored with regular metal like Metallica and Pantera. They were like, OK, try this! WOW it was definitely an eye opener. I had never heard someone write a song about ripping out someone s entrails bare-handed. I know now that there is lots of other death metal out there, some of it better than this, but I still like this album a lot. I really like that Chris Barnes did not take the predictable we love satan gimmick. To me that s a cheap cop-out. Every other band out there pretends to love satan. I know it s just music, not serious preaching, but still, I don t particularly like hearing satanic stuff, that s what prevented me from buying Slayer s new one Christ Illusion. Anyway, I bought all of Six Feet Under s albums, and I ll tell you it s great bill-paying music.. when you want to rip someone s head off, writing all those checks, might as well have music going that describes it!
A good solid debut! - Haunted is a real back to the basics kind of release. Chris Barnes formally of Cannibal Corpse decided to form another band with a much more simple straight forward kind of sound. This band is Six Feet Under. This was a choice that would forever be controversial for the fans of death metal. Anyone who is a fan of Cannibal Corpse as I am, would know that they are fast and all over the place in brutality. Six Feet Under lyricly and musically are just as bit as heavy and brutal as Cannibal Corpse. Thanks in part to Chris Barnes. Their style of music however is not nearly is complicated and there is a lot less intricate guitar work. But I have to say it works. The riffs are very catchy and one can just sit there and bang their head to them for the whole album. One of the albums strongest points is the guitar work of Allen West. West was the guitarist of Obituary (my favorite death metal band). Listening to the album West s guitar work is very prevalent and I definately hear some Obituary in there. Unfortunatly West left after the first album. I believe this hurt the band some because I don t think the guitar work has every been quite as up to par since he left. West is now back with Obituary and all is well. Another interesting observation about Six Feet Under is that with some of their songs Chris Barnes vocals a bit more understandable than his prevous works with Corpse. This is fine with me it adds to the simplicity of the band. One of the best things about Six Feet Under is they show the listener that one can be very brutal and heavy in the world of death metal without playing a million notes and pounding the drums like someone who is overdosing on speed. Chris Barnes, dispite some trips and falls continues to deliver and loves what he does so please just give the guy a little break.Stay Heavy!
3.5 stars, good. decent - I own 4 of Chris Barne s CDs. (Tomb Of The Mutilated, The Bleeding, Haunted, and Alive and Dead). I d say this CD would be tied for the 2nd best out of all of these. Mostly because of Allen West, and now you can actually hear the f*ckin vocals, before (on CC albums) it was so low pitched i couldnt tell if he was singing or if it was amp feedback.The bad thing about this album though is that, like every chris barne s cd, sounds very repitive, i ve been listening to the cd and its track 6, and it sounds like 1 long song.None the less, Tomb Of The Mutilated and The Bleeding were good albums.Tomb Of The Mutilated having about 5 killer songs and 4 repetive songsand The Bleeding having about 7 killer songs and a couple repetive songsso anywayif you want some kickass death metal, get death or obituary and things of that sortif you want good/decent death metal , then this is for you.
3.5 stars, good. decent - I own 4 of Chris Barne s CDs. (Tomb Of The Mutilated, The Bleeding, Haunted, and Alive and Dead). I d say this CD would be tied for the 2nd best out of all of these. Mostly because of Allen West, and now you can actually hear the f*ckin vocals, it was so low pitched i couldnt tell if he was singing or if it was amp feedback.The bad thing about this album though is that, like every chris barne s cd, sounds very repitive, i ve been listening to the cd and its track 6, and it sounds like 1 long song.None the less, Tomb Of The Mutilated and The Bleeding were good albums.Tomb Of The Mutilated having about 5 killer songs and 4 repetive songsand The Bleeding having about 7 killer songs and a couple repetive songsso anywayif you want some kickass death metal, get death or obituary and things of that sortif you want good/decent death metal , then this is for you.