Honestly I had the same knee jerk reaction when I first put it on in the car and was really only halfway listening. I found a lot more to like about it today when I gave it my full attention
I figured no one would really have trouble finding a way to listen to such a big name release and that an actual review would be more helpful than an album title and a YouTube link lol
Every article and most of the people I've talked to about this album had just kind of written it off already after listening to one or two tracks so I thought I'd give a little more of an in depth analysis!
It really is a decent album once you get past the initial knee jerk reaction to it lol
I've been a Slayer fan for nearly 30 years now, and as a guitar player Kerry King has been one of my heroes since I was a teenager, so I went into this with high hopes.
I'm sure you've all heard some reviews already calling the whole project "Slayer Lite" and I can't completely disagree with that, but I really feel it's not entirely fair, and I will clarify that as I go through the good, the bad, and the "meh" of this album.
Let's get the bad out of the way first. This is mostly just a Slayer album. As much as I love Slayer I was really hoping for something more from this solo outing. The part that really kind of irritates me the most is that it's not even a cohesive Slayer album. Some tracks sound like modern Slayer, some like 90s Slayer when they flirted with nu metal, and my favorites sounded like classic 80s thrash era.
What we've ended up with sounds more like a collection of Slayer B-sides and unreleased tracks that goes on a little longer than it probably should. While they are all definitely good songs, there's really not much here I haven't heard before. The guitars sound like Slayer, the drums sound like Slayer, the bass sounds like Slayer, even the singer sounds like Tom Araya with a sore throat.
Wow, I really used the word "Slayer" a lot there...
That's really it for anything negative I can say about it, so let's move on to the positive!
There are a number of tracks on here where you can actually hear Kerry King very tentatively trying to step out of his comfort zone a little, and that kept me engaged enough to listen to the whole thing. Mostly these were little things that I think would have been vetoed on a regular Slayer release. There are some neoclassical riffs, a couple of tracks lean a little more punk which I really liked, I think I even heard a little blues lick here and there!
I wouldn't call any track on here bad! I enjoyed all of them individually even if they don't necessarily add up to something that sounds like an "album" as a whole! If you were really wanting more Slayer after the last album you won't be disappointed!
My final conclusion is that this is an album written by a man who has played the same type of music with the same band for 40+ years, and is not yet really sure how to branch out on his own. If he makes another one, and I hope he does, I'd like to hear him either go completely off the deep end and play something totally unexpected that he always wanted to do but couldn't because it didn't sound "Slayer" enough.
My final grade is 3 inverted crucifixes out of 5
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I can assure you this is not American. If it were I would have had one by now. According to the Instagram link this was found in Iceland.
Also Heinz brand baked beans are British, so I'm assuming that is the country where this masterpiece was created
I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but here we are... Pay attention now:
This would be a lot more appropriate in the Don't Dead - Open Inside community. Doesn't really seem like an aneurysm post
It's because most people realize that a doctors advise about your medical issue is probably going to be a lot more helpful than the baseless uneducated opinions of "some guy I talked to on Lemmy"
I'm surprised he needed the girdle with such a big cloak
The two at the top are a band called Kaatayra which I'm just hearing for the first time and now want to hear everything they've ever made lol
The one near the bottom is called Vauruvã which also sounds pretty fucking cool...
THANKS FOR NOT LISTING THEM BY THE WAY OP lol
I don't have a lot of expertise in this area, but if the only difference is the type of container maybe that has something to do with it? Does one have better drainage than the other possibly?
Might be kind of difficult to get to sleep with that inside you...
Unless that's what you're into I guess...
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It's an unhinged, uneducated plan that will kill us all.
Didn't you mean to say it will make us GREAT again??? Lol
"if you haven't committed a crime then you have nothing to worry about!"
-some republican who has committed a litany of crimes
The skating rink here was built before I was born. I think it was from the 70s or maybe even the late 60s. The decore was mostly maroon and brown carpeting and wood paneling on the walls. At some point they updated the concession area so it looked more like the restaurant from Saved By The Bell though lol! I think they completely renovated it in the early 2000s and it's an ice skating rink now
Cool! I've got their last two albums quede up to listen to later!
Working on finishing Yubaba's son (in his mouse form)! He looks a bit like a zombie mouse right now, but that will change once I finish the eyes lol
After a little over a year of stitching now I still feel like a bit of a noob, but I'm pretty comfortable with the basics. These parts of patterns still give me some problems though!
My strategy is usually to just do all of one color then move on to the next filling in the gaps as I go, but when it gets down to filling individual stitches surrounded by a bunch of finished stitches it gets quite cramped and sometimes those final stitches end up looking pretty rough.
Is there some really obvious method of doing this that I'm missing? Does anyone else use a different approach?
Once you see it you can never unsee it
I got behind due to a lot of stuff going on in my life, but I managed to make some progress still! Sadly because I've been working on it here and there I had some mistakes that resulted in me having to frog a bunch of stitches to get back on track, but it's looking good now!
I did not realize how many fiddly little parts there were to this one lol I think No-Face and Haku should go a bit faster once I get to them though!
I found some old negatives the last time I visited and this guy was in there!
Here's the pattern! I have a LONG way to go lol
I hope to finish this one by tomorrow night!
Nowhere in my town has these anymore but I recently had to go out of town a few times and found more Harry Potter Kinder Eggs in a few stores way out in the country lol!
The only ones I don't have yet are Professor Trelawny, Luna Lovegood, and Cho Chang! I'm starting to think they don't actually exist lol
The only person laughing is usually the person who made the joke and it's generally just irritating to everyone else who just wants to get on with their day. I might feel differently if we like, got the day off work for April Fools Day I guess
A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a “malicious allegation” that damaged its business.
