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# Global Domination

### Recent updates

- S(crap)s: I Miss My Death / Kaoskult / Raus & Perunwit (split) / Spatial / Thy Flesh (13/06/14)
- Hatebreed: The rise of brutality (12/06/14)
- Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence (11/06/14)
- Mayhem: Esoteric warfare (10/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Akrotheism / Black Altar / Druknroll / Enthroned / Funeral Sutra (09/06/14)
- Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere (08/06/14)
- Dark Tranquillity: Construct (07/06/14)
- In Flames: The jester race (06/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Souldrainer / Tonic Breed / Rude / Defying / Electric Hellride / Scorned Disciple (05/06/14)
- Culted: Oblique to all paths (04/06/14)
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## Stubs

### Haiduk: Spellbook

#### 14/08/12 || Averatu

Today I’m trying something different that could get me into crap. Tough shit.

First I will review this as an album:
Guitars: 9/10. This is not a guitar hero album, but there are really killer riffs and ideas, and the execution is mostly flawless. He could ease up on the hammer-ons. The guitars are the focus of the whole mix.
Drum programming: 2/10. Its a lame duck, totally unnatural and at some points impossibly fast, unless we can afford Kollias to do live sessions. With minimal effort it could have been so much better.
Vocals: 2/10. When there are actual vocals happening, its pretty good, but most of this album is instrumental, but not the guitar solo type. So much of this album should have had vocals.
Production: 1/10. Totally over produced on the guitar, and completely under produced on all other fronts.

There are some moments that are very impressive, but then it all falls completely flat, everything just ambles along relying on the guitar to keep driving it. The songs just end abruptly, and the album has no flow at all.

Calculated average album score:

Next I will review this as a guitarist demo:
He’s tight, he’s fast, he has super cool ideas, but no one bothered to tell him about Craigslist. Holy smoking Vatican poo, someone hook this kid up with an actual band please. I think the results could be totally fucking devastating.

Demo score:

This album is a perfect example of the pitfalls of self produced bands or project thingies. Without the traditional quality filter of the A’n R of a record company, bands can self release anything they like, and its up-to douchebags like me to publicly crush their egos under our boot heals.

Note to the bands media liaison: Now don’t take any chances and quote me out of context, or by the wrath of Beelzebub there will rain down internet acid piss upon thee!!!!

- 10 Latest Stubs
- Complete Stubs-listing

After going thru that crap, you most likely wanna read something way more interesting. You do, admit it.

Below are some links to most recent articles, take your pick.

## Audio autopsy

  Audio Autopsy - June 2014
  Audio Autopsy - May 2014
  Audio Autopsy - April 2014
  Audio Autopsy - March 2014
  Audio Autopsy - February 2014
  Audio Autopsy - January 2014
  Audio Autopsy - December 2013
  Audio Autopsy - November 2013
  Audio Autopsy - October 2013
  Audio Autopsy - September 2013
  more

## Reviews

  Hatebreed: The rise of brutality
  Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence
  Mayhem: Esoteric warfare
  Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere
  Dark Tranquillity: Construct
  Culted: Oblique to all paths
  V/A: One and all, together, for home
  Cemetery: Enter the gate
  Ancient Ascendant: Echoes and cinder
  Dead Congregation: Promulgation of the fall
  more

## Class 6(66)

  In Flames: The jester race
  Overkill: Taking over
  Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese
  Destruction: Live without sense
  Merauder: Master killer
  Forced Entry: Uncertain future
  Evildead: Annihilation of civilization
  Flotsam And Jetsam: No place for disgrace
  Venom: Black metal
  Black Sabbath: Headless cross
  more

## Demons

  Distress Of Ruin: Predators among us
  Torchia: One
  Begrafven: Begrafven
  Children Of Madness: Howl from beyond
  Necrophor: Verbum vexillifer
  Seven Against: III
  Forlorn Chambers: Unborn and hollow
  Black Overdrive: Demo
  Told By Blood: Steamworks
  Sorkka: Ensimmäinen jae
  more

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