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Six Feet Under - Commandment (2007) Death Metal Album Review

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  The follow-up to 2005's 13, 2007's Commandment is decent, but falls flat. It has great riffs and a sick guitar tone, but on this album Chris Barnes' vocals really start to deteriorate.  It opens with "Doomsday", which has great crushing guitar riffs and their guitars sound very good, but once the vocals start you can tell Barnes' is struggling. It's still a cool song due to the guitar work, but it is held back in the vocal department. However, the vocals aren't that  bad! I've heard much worse and honestly once you get used to them the music is pretty enjoyable, just not up to the standard set by much better previous albums like Haunted, 13, and Maximum Violence. By www.sfu420.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22790397 This is one of those albums where the songs all sound the same, they just blend together and I can't tell one apart from the other despite the fact that I listen to a lot of death metal and am a big fan

Six Feet Under - 13 (2005) Death Metal Album Review

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  Six Feet Under's 13, released in 2005 had a definite impact on me. I was 15 and just starting to get into death metal and extreme metal. In 2004 I discovered the highly underrated band Fear Factory. I started with Obsolete and select songs from Archetype and Digimortal, then worked my way back eventually discovering Soul of a New Machine, the first time I ever heard "death" vocals.  I wasn't impressed lol. I thought it was stupid. But over time I moved away from the rock and nu-metal (Drowning Pool, Disturbed), and began listening to heavier and faster genres of metal. I discovered old Metallica and became obsessed with thrash metal especially Sepultura and Slayer. This introduced me to more extreme metal, namely Bloodbath, Kataklysm, Emperor, and yes, Six Feet Under. On windows media I searched and found an mp3 of the song "Feasting On the Blood of the Insane", I really liked the death vocals and lyrics for the song, it almost sounds like he's rapping