DESTROY absolutely incredible
580035
The posers reviewing this album on here are reviewing the wrong band! It's some teenie bopper band that they're talking about! The real Howl, and this album, are hard freaking core and will melt your face off and have women and children weeping over your exploded corpse! (thanks Sheen) Check out their Full of Hell LP for more complete destruction to your soul!
2016150
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE - the BEST ROCK CD I'VE ENCOUNTERED IN A LONG LONG LONG TIME-
Incredibly musical, amazing vocals, and virtuosic playing but never to show off, but to elevate the song to another level.

I just pray these guys keep putting out material- this is an amazing album!
1196488
My previous post did not do this album justice. Meshuggah have put out an album which has truly broken new grond in songwriting, and shows the band honing their sound down to a brutal, slow, polyrythmical grind. Wheras Destroy Erase Improve showcased a slightly more melodic, dynamic edge, and Chaosphere displayed the band pushing their technical skills to the limits, Nothing comes off as a perfectly balanced album by a band which has truly found their own sound. The eight string ESPS guitars are just as sweet as I expected. I heard rumors that there's no bass on this album, although I don't believe it. The guitars are certainly noisy enough to rown it out. Drums produced and played perfectly, with less of an emphasis on double bass and more on complex, subliminal patterns thinly disguised as randomness. The vocals are the evilest Jens has ever performed, growling has never been this perfect. Try headbanging to the average Meshuggah song. If you keep your head moving in time with the 4/4 rhythm on the crash, the snare drum with sound outof time for a couple of bars, then loop back around into perfect syncapation. They change timing frequently and layer multiple rhythms on top of each other, wrapping everything around a solid 4/4 rhythm, which is what makes it flow. Songs like Stengah and and Closed Eye Visuals contain deceptively simple riffs, just arranged in a weird order. It also must be said that Straws Pulled At Random has the best breakdown ever. Buy this right now.
2537776
i bought "echos of decimation" the day it came out and ive gotta say its one of the most brutal cds i own and it hasn't left my cd player in my truck,, this is a must have for any hardcore heavy metal head, definetly not for the faint of heart, these guys are the hardest of the hardest, pure genius and impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4278766
This is, without question, the MOST BRUTAL music I've ever heard. It's more brutal than "Scream Bloody Gore" from Death, and that's almost untouchable in my book....
Pestilence re-defines the word "BRUTAL" with this debut. These boys from Holland will simply blow you away!!
If your a fan of "any" Death Metal, PLEASE!!....PLEASE!!! do yourself a huge favor, and buy this before it's gone. They may be out of stock soon!!!I was so excited when I saw this on amazon, I almost soiled myself!!
Don't talk to me about today's Death Metal....This blows away anything today has to offer....NOTHING comes close to this!!
Unfortunately, Pestilence isn't with us anymore, but check out (Asphyx), a self titled debut, featuring (Martin van Drunen)the leader, and former singer/bass player of Pestilence.....It's almost as good as this!!!
The only thing I can compare to this, would be Death's "Scream Bloody Gore", and "Leprosy". They have a very similar approach, but Pestilence has more brutality. It's as raw as it gets, and the songs are nothing short of incredible. THIS IS DEATH METAL HISTORY.
4343032
Completely amazing! Do not buy anything else!!! Buy this ASAPPPP!!! Its is amazing omg! I love it so much. Seriously, I am completely shocked about the sound quality.
1317684
Decapitated is a supremely talented and young crew of insane musicians.  Winds of Creation was their debut effort and easily their finest.  If not for the tragic death of the drummer Vitek, I could easily see them as the "poster-group" of the metal genre.  This album start to finish will rock you into a migrane headache.  The riffs are thick and over powering, the double bass's jack hammer like none I've heard before.  And don't even get me started on the vocals, though you can't pick up a single word spoken, Decapitated makes it work.  Unbelievable.  These Pole's sure as hell hit the nail on the head with this album, Death metal played at Speed/Thrash metal speeds on steroids.  Get this album.....If you don't shatter your next door neighbors windows in appartment 2C within 30 seconds of playing this on your stereo somethings wrong with you.  Get it.
1865618
This song is spectacular! Like holy freakin' crap!
3039200
WOW.  I was very anxious to hear the new Nile material.  For months and  months, I awaited to see if the destructive force known as Nile could meet  the exemplory performance from "Amongst the Catacombs...", or  even exceed it.
 Well, exceed they did.  This album is absolutely  amazing.  Fierce, brutal, punishing...I don't even know enough synonyms for  "heavy" to describe it.  From the opening seconds of the title  track, you immediately realize that this album will completely shred from  beginning to chaotic end.
 This album is a death metal epic, to say  the least.  From the hypnotic chanting of "BLACK...SEEDS...OF  VENGEANCE..." in the title track, to the unrelenting attack of  'Masturbating the War God', this album certainly re-assures all fans of the  death metal genre:
 Nile are back...with a vengeance.
1365034
Take any album that you believe is hard core wether it be Muddvayne, Slipknot, or the fastest punk possible, or the fastest SKA you could imagine! This album will be more hardcore times 10. You could mosh like a madman, or you could Skank so fast you couldn't tell what your feet are doing, or you could head bang hard enough that your head might fall off!!! This is the most amazing album I have ever heard and I believe these guys should be up their with Rancid
4531839
It cannot get  anymore brutal than this. No Sleep smells madness, amphetamines and bestiality. Where most of the heavy metal bands are just cartoons, Motorhead is the real thing. Check out Bomber and Motorhead the  two final tracks, nothing so loud has ever been recorded since or will be.  This record is absolutely scary. Hail !
2131152
I really like the new sound, but find it hard to listen to because it is so over-mastered. Dynamic compression is out of control.  It's almost impossible to enjoy this on any decent sound system.  Everything on the album screams.  Terrible sound engineering. Destroys what is otherwise a great album from an incredible artist. This type of studio over-engineering should  be outlawed.

ZBB has done a great job of creating a truly unique album that blends every genre one can imagine. For such a great group of musicians, I'm amazed that they allowed it to be so poorly mastered.
594420
This is without a doubt the sickest batch of songs to be released in a long time. These guys are flawless both live and on tape. I can't stress enough what a major release this is for this band. I predict Lamb of God to be as huge as Slayer.

 Killer CD, every track is ferocious as hell. Grab their others also.
1799192
You gotta hear these guys to believe it. This is some of the most hardcore, most hateful music of all time. Makes me want to smash some windows just thinking about it. This album is a combination of their first two albums. Their is nothing else like it. These guys were somewhat along the same line as Sick of It All or Sheer Terror.
4836598
I first put this record on not expecting much more than mediocrity. Well i can tell you i was very very very wrong. Damnation and a day blew not only my mind but the speakers on my hifi system. Loud is just not the word. Dani's manic screeches and screams, Paul's hypnotic riffs, Martin's keyboards adding a very seductive edge, Adrian bashing those drums as though his life depended on it, Dave's bass giving it all a healthy(vampyric)pulse, Gian's rythm guitar and not forgetting Sarah's irresistible harmonious wails. BUTTTT the most jaw droppingly amazing, dazzling and purely exeptional thing about damnation is the, yes....wait for it....the 40 PIECE ORCHESTRA and if that wasn't enough for your fiendish delight, a 32 piece VOICE CHOIR all the way from Budapest. How they do it, i have no idea, what is the end result, very simple: a unique and rather haunting album(check out track 9). Yes my friends, those filthy lads have done it yet again!!!!

BRAVOOOOOO
3995033
Absolutely crushing.  Add some really cool vocals and nasty bass - this album really hits hard!  Awesome.
3522811
Easily the most brutal Metal album ever recorded. I think only machines could play faster. You need to hear this album and have it in your Metal collection. It almost transcends the Metal genre it's so intense.