Label: Nuclear Blast
Year: 2010
No picture this time, as I am no longer at home, but I am on vacation and using my friends Mac instead of my PC. I did buy a new laptop from Best Buy yesterday, but I have to wait for the store to open again today so I can go get it, once they've finished installing the new software I bought with it.
But if we want to talk tech, I'll make a new blog for that...Right now, we're here to talk music. And not just any music, mind you. We're here to talk about a band that's been growing on me as of late, Accept, who come to us from good 'ol Germany (if that somehow came across as sarcastic, it wasn't). More importantly, their newest album Blood of the Nations.
I have to start off with this: Beat the Bastards ALWAYS gets stuck in my head. I have to say its my favorite track on the record, followed by the second track, Teutonic Terror. I can't remember what spot on my Top 30 list I posted awhile back that I put Blood of the Nations, but if I remember right it was in my top 10...I won't go back to check, because I like the fact that I don't remember everything.
Blood of the Nations is right up my ally for "speed metal". It's not overly fast, but it's also not a slower metal that makes me want to fall asleep after fifteen minutes or so. One my friends, who will remain unnamed, is a diehard DragonForce fan, and more power to him. I will admit, some, SOME, of their studio stuff is....well its okay. I wouldn't, and don't, listen to them on a regular basis because it's WAY to samey and dull for me. I like a little verity in my music. Don't get me wrong, speed for speed sake is all fine and dandy, but only at certain points. And I saw them live at Mayhem Fest '08, along with Disturbed, Suicide Silence, Five Finger Death Punch and Mastodon, as well as several other bands that I can't remember the names of.
But Accept is a band that I look forward to. What I mean by that is I own Blood of the Nations, and I will most likely be going in the way-back machine to check out some of the earlier stuff. But for now, I give Accept: Blood of the Nations an 8/10. "An 8/10? What a minute...You gave a band, that's main genre is a genre you don't listen to hardly at all, an 8.5/10, but you give a speed metal band from Germany, that's been around WAY longer an 8/10?" And I'm sure some of you are feeling just like The Nostalgia Critic when he reviewed "Quest for Camelot" on his website, thatguywiththeglasses.com, which almost every five minutes he shouted "EXPLAIN!!!!". I could be wrong on the movie, but again, I'm not going to find out just for my own gain. If you want to correct me, by all means, go ahead.
But the reason I gave these guys a lower score then Silent Lapse is more or less the same reason I gave Silent Lapse the score I gave them. Some of the overall structure of some of the songs was boring, the vocals are really, REALLY gravelly and kind of a little bit TOO rough, which makes me want to call them a Heavy/Speed/Trash metal band, even though some people would be inclined to disagree, and I won't argue with you about it.
Also, some of the songs are just flat boring. I give you an example with Kill The Pain.....
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good ballad, and Mark Tornillo CAN sing, which threw me off a bit, but there's just something about this song that is boring to me. And I can honestly sit here and say I don't know why I don't like it. It's a good song, the music is good and the lyrics actually make some sense, but I just don't like it all that much.
But as I said before, I give Accept: Blood of the Nations an 8/10. It's a good album, it flows pretty well, and most of the songs hooks get stuck in my head a lot of the time.
But hey....perfection is a terrible thing to try to attain every time you make an album, so you'll just have to settle for second best.
As always, I am your host, Wattako. Stay Shockey.
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