Arise

As a massive metal head, I was really looking forward to doing a metal album and after listening to Arise, I sure was quite satisfied. Unlike most albums, the longer songs on this album are the best ones since that's when they get really experimental and interesting to listen to. This album was really what I hoped for when doing a metal album.
Best Song: Desperate Cry
Worst Song: Infected Voice

Rules

Heavy as hell and twice as loud

Just can't do metal like this. 1/5

The most interesting parts of this album were the intros, especially the more industrial ones. I wish they would have incorporated them more into the songs themselves. Other than that, it's fairly exhausting stuff.

I actually liked this more than I thought I would, as this is definitely the kind of music my father likes to listen to (as well as The Avett Brothers, if you wanna really see the duality of man) so it's almost oddly nostalgic. That being said, this isn't what I would call "good". Most songs sound the same, and while there is definitely technical abilities on display here, none of it translates to anything I would find worthy outside of a mosh pit. Probably fun on Guitar Hero or in concert, but not exactly for while catching fish in Animal Crossing, y'know?

It's a real decent thrash metal album. According to a lot of people their best, but I have a bit of a different opinion.

In contrast to the great, hard and atmospheric Beneath the Remains that preceded Arise, I find quite a few songs on Arise unimaginative and log.
Chaos AD after this one went in a different direction and for me, that's where they re-found a sense of experimentation, sounds and songwriting.

This one falls in-between.
Still good. Not great.

I've heard of Sepultura before via a documentary I was watching one time called "Global Metal" but I've never delved into their stuff before.

They are a thrash metal band from Brazil, very similar to Slayer. The name "Sepultura" means 'grave' in Portuguese. The title track from this album "Arise" was banned from MTV America due it its apocalyptic religious imagery.

I enjoyed this album. The ferocity and speed with which the band approaches their instruments is phenomenal. The beat is complex and ever changing, and the lyrics are heavily influenced by religion, doom, darkness, and war.

This isn't something I can listen to every day, and it takes some listening to warm up to (I listened to the album 3 times today) but it is phenomenal in its own right.

Favourite songs: Dead Embryonic Cells, Under Seige (Regnum Irae), Orgasmatron, Arise, Murder, Desperate Cry, Subtraction

Least favourite song: I really can't pick one...

4/5

This is very CHUGGA WUGGA metal, and at the end of the day I prefer when my metal’s more uuWAAAAAAAAAGH *orchestral interlude* *bagpipes*

That vocal just sits in the perfect spot in the mix. Dead Embryonic Cells is as heavy as any song could get get at this time. Digging the into on Desperate Cry. However this album really feels repetitive. It doesn't go anywhere. The wild solo on Subtraction could have had more room to breathe. The Orgasmatron cover puts it into the same sonic style as the rest of the album, which felt like a chore to listen to.

Hay veces que descubres grupos cuando ya tienen discos anteriores y al ponerte al día puede ocurrir que te gusten más o menos. Yo soy más de los Sepultura de Chaos A.D. y Roots, aquí me faltan cosas. Igualmente se deja escuchar y entiendo que a poco que te guste el Metal es disfrutable.

SEPULTURA! BR PORRA!