Madder Mortem – Eight Ways
[Peaceville, 2009]
genre: Avant-garde, progressive metal, metal, alternative metal, gothic, doom, post-metal
Album Review by Sovereign
Progressive metal with female vocals. A modern heavy metal, a great performance and a really interesting music. I was stacked with Madder Mortem back on 2001 when they release ‘All flesh is grass’, a huge album, a masterpiece for the genre, a really aggressive release, a hard and rough metal. I met them back then with that album and I realize that their music is unique and quite complicated or maybe sophisticated. The band from Oslo can approach music and sounds like Tool and Ayreon produce and at the same time can instruct bands like Lacuna Coil, Epica and After Forever. I‘ll dare to compare them with Opeth, I think they are quite similar to them, despite the female vocals. The cover of the album is excellent, and you can find it as a poster in the digipack edition of the album. Extreme music, fantastic guitars, modern and meta-metal inspiration, inspired lyrics, hard sounds, and classic string routes. It is progressive metal, it is not easy to understand it, it is complicated and quite flush. They change the rythms every 1-2 minutes and they produce the most colorfulness metal of the last days. Different kind of moods and atmospheres and a great distorted tone around. “See, it flows so easily, a ruthless piece of art”
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the album : Madder Mortem 8 ways 2009 rapidshare
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Links:
http://www.maddermortem.com/
http://www.myspace.com/maddermortem
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Formaldehyde (5:26)
2. The Little Things (5:02)
3. Armour (5:04)
4. Resolution (6:30)
5. A Different Kind Of Hell (5:21)
6. Riddle Wants To Be (4:11)
7. Where Dream And Day Collide (5:53)
8. The Flesh, The Blood And The Man (4:37)
9. Get That Monster Out Of Here (5:43)
10. Life, Lust & Liberty (4:19)
11. All I Know (3:56)
12. The Eighth Wave (9:14)
Total Time: 65:16
Sovereign
