Reviews: SODP031
< Обратно к релизу / Back to page
Ходит миф, что ещё шумеры считали нефть целебной и принимали в ней лечебные ванны. Может из-за этого за чёрное золото идёт война? Сомневаюсь, но затронуть эту тему полезно не только чиновникам.
Подобная тематика для альбома, признаться честно, для меня показалась чем-то очень свежим. Никаких монстров, смертельных грехов, маньяков - только гниль, крысы, жадность, ложь и "расстреляйте их там в коридоре, воров и подлецов-негодяев"! Великолепная формация MONASTERY DEAD из Санкт-Петербурга вовремя нашла на гниющем теле данный прыщ и выдавила его без остатка. Получилось не только мощно и интересно, но и "по олде, по классике", как многим из вас это нравится. Звук, исполнение, структура песен - всё как бальзам на душу; нет ощущения затянутости, скуки; песня за песней интригуют всё больше и больше.
Поспешу выделить композицию "Generation: Rats", которая, как по мне, поделила альбом на 2 части и выглядела бы под любым номером логично - очень приятный инструментал. Таким и начать, и закончить не стыдно. Альбом есть на носителях, за информацией обращайтесь к ребятам, плюс в вк всё есть. И да, альбом имеет 13 треков, так что загляните в комментарии к данной рецензии. А мне было очень приятно послушать - так сказать, принять некую лечебную ванну. Браво!
http://vk.com/wall-677545_12056
Ah, black gold, and I presume we're talking about oil. The cover shows a man in very bad health condition eating oil. In the background we see the dark skies over the oil fields. It's an apocalyptic vision but somehow it's very realistic image about greed. The band logo tells us we're dealing with a death metal album and the song durations even takes that a bit furthur towards grindcore.
Don't you just love it when everything is right? Yes, this is a death metal album, often nudging towards grindcore and loaded with hardcore punk influences. Brutal guttural vocals, blasting drums and fierce riffs turn the whole into thirteen heart attack causing musical obliterations. I can see the moshpits forming, I can see the crowdsurfers climbing on stage.
Monastery Dead hail from Russia and have been around since 2004. Several line-up changes and three albums later later the band has great plans for the future. I certainly hope they can make those plans come trough because this is a damn crushing piece of work. Fans of bands like Napalm Death, Dying Fetus or Debauchery will undoubtedly appreciate the sheer speed and aggression that these Russians disgorge.
Highlights are the highly chaotic but massive 'Sublimation', 'Voracity of Madness', 'Lie' and (for me personally) the strangely atmospheric 'Generation:Rats', even including some minimal keyboards and post-metal influences. That versatility is what makes this album so interesting. Most of the times the band throws some sickening slaps of brutal grind in your face and on other occasions they prove to be technical experts, capable of performing any extreme genre.
So yes, this is a well-taken care of piece of extreme metal that very few headbangers could resist. Plenty of variation, plenty of intense musical ass kicking, what else could a death metal freak possibly want? So check this out, you won't be disappointed.
http://www.merchantsofair.com/reviews/monastery-dead-black-gold-appetite
Russian extreme band Monastery Dead play ultra brutal skull crushing death metal that’s sure to fucking kick your head in and then leave you dying for the vultures circling above.
This lethal monster is one of the heaviest death metal releases to ever come from the former Soviet era country. “Black Gold Appetite” is the album’s title, and definitely got me thinking as to what they meant by it. By looking at the album’s artwork of a half dead human eating up black gold, as if they’re greedy for its monetary value. Subjects of religious persecution, political upheaval, societal ills, and humanity’s greed for global domination is one of the many underlying themes talked about here.
When you have sensitive subjects as mentioned above tied in with such pounding and mind obliterating rhythms and vocals, you know your end is not too distant from certain reality. Monastery Dead’s downtuned guitar rhythms have this monstrous, wall of sound to them, which creates a feeling of total destruction and despair. The speed at which they play really makes all the difference in the world with their songs destroying everything in their path.
This quartet’s style of writing and playing a bestial, bludgeoning style of auditory cruelty makes for an interesting listening experience, this is if you love being tortured, of course. I’ve always been a huge fan of this style of brutal death metal, and Monastery Dead shows just how well they can compete with some of the more established death metal bands from around the world.
One listen to Monastery Dead and you will feel and see your world burn to total ashes, as it does not get any insane than “Black Gold Appetite”.
Monastery Dead – заслуженная команда из города на Неве, и ведёт атаку на барабанные перепонки почитателей смертельного металла уже более 10 лет. Коллектив имеет давнюю и насыщенную историю. Было время, за вокальные партии этой группы отвечала даже брутальная woman. Команда имеет в своём активе солидную дискографию, а в 2015 году представил на суд мировой общественности своё новейшее творение – “Black Gold Appetite”.
В середине 80-х Guns’n Roses говорили про аппетит к разрушению (“Appetite For Destruction”), пришло время сказать о том же, но более изощрённо и витиевато. Команда отошла от стереотипов жанра и посвятила свой новый альбом теме человеческих пороков и в частности алчности. На обложке диска человек, который одновременно похож и на Доби из фильма про Гарри Поттера, и на всех прославленных вождей нашей Родины, поглощает нефть — “черное золото”, ради которого люди готовы убивать друг друга. Что может быть брутальнее?
“Thurst Of Power Kills People
Human Is Ruthless
Destroys everybody who stand on its way
And Makes The New World On The Bones Of Its Foes”
(c) More Power
Музыкальный материал команды напоминает как флоридскую школу дэта, так и шведские брутальные дэт-капеллы (в частности Entombed и Dismember). Изящный среднетемповый риффинг и болезненный гроул вокалиста порционно разбиты на 13 зверских отрезков общей длительностью 35 минут, и такая лаконичность вкупе с красочным буклетом создают очень целостное и непротиворечивое впечатление. Среднетемповые, “абстрактные” треки местами вызывают ассоциации даже с Hypocrisy, а тягучие железные риффы словно инопланетный набалдашник размешивают топкое болото наших стереотипов и предрассудков, апеллируя к наследию славных Benediction и Gorguts. Немного выбивается из общей картины инструментал “Generation: Rats”, который имеет мало общего с дэтом, а скорее напоминает слегка утяжелённый “Planet Caravan”.
Питерская сцена всегда была богата на прекрасные коллективы, а питерский дэт традиционно идёт со стикером “the best Russian death metal”. Bestial Deform, Burtul, Monastery Dead – все эти коллективы давно завоевали любовь и признание заинтересованных людей. А потому и новейший полноформатник “монастериев” никак нельзя обойти вниманием. Ребята действительно творят историю. А с этим альбомом питерские gore gods действительно и безусловно enthroned.
http://astartaview.ru/monastery-dead-black-gold-appetite/
Nuovo lavoro per questa band estrema proveniente dalla Russia, terzo di una discografia che vede altre due opere licenziate nel corso di undici anni di attività; Victims of Senseless Massacre del 2009 e Cold and Gloom del 2012.
Il gruppo di san Pietroburgo opera nel settore del death metal che sfocia molte volte nel brutal, magari non tecnicissimo ma dall’impatto devastante.
Un aggressione feroce dunque, senza compromessi e colma di sfuriate violentissime, ad opera di una band che punta tutto sull’impatto, da tregenda della propria musica e l’effetto è convincente, specialmente per chi fa del genere la principale fonte di sostentamenti musicale.
Manca un briciole di fantasia in più per differenziarsi dalle centinaia di realtà che popolano l’universo underground estremo, ma è indiscutibile l’attitudine che la band riversa in questi trentaquattro minuti di delirio death senza compromessi.
Growl brutale e sezione ritmica che crea un wall of sound di notevole impatto sono le caratteristiche maggiori per far si che Black Gold Appetite trovi estimatori tra i fans del death metal, affrancati ed accontentati nei loro istinti da songs tremebonde come You Are Parasite, Sick Absolution, la title track e Lie, picchi qualitativi di questo lavoro estremo.
Siamo al cospetto di una band che, senza far gridare al miracolo, il suo mestiere lo fa con dovizia senza andare oltre ad un onesto compitino.
Le influenze sono percebibili nei maestri Cannibal Corpse e nei Dying Fetus, la produzione rende giustizia al suono pesantissimo creato dal gruppo, ed il disco fila liscio senza grosse cadute, ma altresì senza meraviglie, mantenendo una qualità sufficiente per non passare del tutto inosservato.
http://www.iyezine.com/monastery-dead-black-gold-appetite
The album art work pretty much sets the tone for this album. With a gory cover this can only be a death metal album. And that it is. This is death metal in the Cannibal Corpse school of doing things. Throw in some really moshing parts and you got an album that really grinds with the best. With the risk of repeating myself I have to say that I like this kind of death metal when it is played the way MONESTARY DEAD play it. They mix the brutal with the technical making the best of two worlds.
http://battlehelm.com/reviews/monestary-dead-black-gold-appetite/
In 2008 verscheen de eerste demo van deze band uit Rusland, een jaar later volgde het debuut waarna er netjes om de drie jaar eentje uitkwam. Wie op school tijdens de rekenles op heeft gelet weet dan dat we aan nummertje drie toe zijn.
Een blik op de hoes en songtitels is eigenlijk al voldoende om dit te categoriseren. Deathmetal dus. Om het geheel stilistisch enigszins te duiden denk je aan vergelijkingen met Autopsy (hoewel ze daar soms net wat te snel voor spelen) en Immolation (hoewel ze daarvoor net iets te vaak het gaspedaal intrappen). Ook met Grave heeft het wel wat uit te staan. Denk nu niet dat Monastery Dead een kloon is van genoemde bands, het geeft eerder richting aan de zaak en dient als referentiepunt.
Sterke punten aan Black Gold Appetite zijn de afwisseling en het meer dan goede gitaarspel. Echte aanraders zijn Sick Absolution (vanwege de porno-intro die nu eens wel bij het thema van een nummer past) en Generation:Rats (omdat dit direct in je kop blijft hangen, altijd knap voor een deathmetal band).
Valt Monastery Dead hiermee dermate op dat er sprake is van een klassieker? Dat niet direct. De band brengt wel bovengemiddeld goede nummers die meer verdienen dan een plek in de marge.
http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/33503/Monastery-DeadBlack-Gold-Appetite.html
Monastery Dead are a Saint-Petersburg-based combo, formed a decade ago. After a first demo, the band recorded the album Victims Of Senseless Massacre (Musica Production), followed in 2012 by Cold And Gloom (Wings Of Destruction). Now the band returns, once again subdue to some line-up changes, with their third full length studio album, Black Gold Appetite, which lasts for thirty five minutes.
Seen the ‘average’ artwork, the uninspired title and the plain band’s moniker, I was afraid, prepared to experience the lowest form of would-be Metal. But damn, like I was wrong… Seriously, this quintet (at least they were a four-piece at the moment of these recordings) do not bring something renewing at all, but the quality they stand for is truly beyond expectations. This stuff has something alike to, for example, Abscess / Autopsy, Immolation, God Enthroned, Bolt Thrower, Necrophagia, Incantation, Asphyx and Unleashed / Grave / Dismember, yet with quite some self-identifying elements. That’s a good thing, showing an own face, but one needs to consider the sad, disappointing lack of variation as well. With exception of a couple of compositions, the most is like repeatedly the same, over and over again, with a comparable structure (no matter the technical execution of it), an identic tempo (including the very same changes in structure and speed), and so on.
Once in a while – and believe me if I say that I am not that ‘anti’ at all, despite the lack of glory – there’s one or another excerpt that is slightly better than the ‘average’ (Generation: Rats, for example, is such a piece), but in general I think Black Gold Appetite isn’t but a cool effort that lacks of most grandiose elements that characterise the bands I mentioned in the former paragraph. …or better: those elements might be there (and not necessarily in a worse condition), but since lacking inspiration and invention…
http://www.concreteweb.be/reviews/monastery-dead
Monastery Dead is a band from the former Soviet Republic who recently completed a nice chunk of energetic, steaming death metal. Their album 'Appetite Black Gold' is full of short, pounding songs that have a great groove. The songs do not surpass the three minutes, and also quickly get to the heart of the matter. It often refers to the metal of a band like Master, really old school with the same low rumbling bass. It is not a new impetus for the death metal, but a good quality album which can definitely compete with the genre contemporaries. Topics such as social inequality, religious oppression and abuse of power are of course an ideal base for a good death metal song and the band is symbolically ramming all obstacles out of the way. A country like Russia will surely have the wrongs and this band is using everything to create a devastating piece of metal for you to let of some steam. Nice to listen to but nothing new under the sun, unfortunately, so go have a listen before buying.
http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/31373
Monastery Dead are a band from Russia that plays a very old school form of death metal and this is a review of t heir 2015 album "Black Gold Appetite" which was released as a joint effort between Symbol of Domination Productions, Wings Of Destruction, Narcoleptica Productions, and Grotesque Sounds Productions.
A very hard and melodic sound starts off the album along with some solos and leads being added onto the recording a few seconds later and on the second track the music starts to speed up along with a great amount of blast beats and death metal growls and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Most of the tracks are very short in length with the longest one only being a little bit over 3 minutes and the music is very heavily rooted in the 90's and as the album progresses high pitched screams can be heard in certain sections of the recording and you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the album and one song also brings in a small amount of porno samples and some songs also bring in a brief use of clean playing along with one of the tracks being instrumental before returning back to songs with vocals and the last track also brings in war samples.
Monastery Dead plays a style of death metal that is very heavy and old school in the 90's tradition while also having more of a modern take on the genre, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover death, anti religion, war and depression themes.
In my opinion Monastery Dead are a very great sounding old school death metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "More Power" "Sublimation" "Black Gold Appetite" and "Lie".
http://extrememetalzine.blogspot.ru/2016/02/monastery-deadblack-gold-appetivesymbol.html
Russian death metal realised the album.That is a death metal apocalypse of truth, awesome death metal album.
On this album it can be heard a influence of melodic music, also very interesting they put the sounds of rebellion and war in one of the songs, which made the song more interesting for listening because of the massage of the song, and its inegrated phenomanally with the whole album, of course the influence of melodic music too.
This album will face you with painful reality, death, apocalypse, irony, rebellion, war, brutallity.
Monastery Dead is anonomys band that desirves a lot of attention of the public and listeners.This band is a high guality and powerful death metal band, with intense and the most brutal metal music in death metal genre.
http://demonreports.tumblr.com/post/139242803403/album-reviewunderground-of-metal-monastery
Ormai quasi tre anni fa parlavo del secondo disco dei Monastery Dead in toni positivi: nessuna velleità di innovazione, nessuna aspirazione particolare, ma tutto sommato "Cold And Gloom" era un lavoro discreto, ben suonato e scritto in modo piacevolmente asciutto ed essenziale. Ora, a un nuovo giro di boa, i Monastery Dead si ripresentano forti di una co-produzione finanziata addirittura da quattro diverse etichette, con un nuovo chitarrista (annosi i problemi di stabilità all'interno della formazione di San Pietroburgo) e nuovamente in larga parte dipendenti dalla penna del bassista Vadim Nikolaev.
"Black Gold Appetite", a un primo ascolto, e poi a un secondo, e poi a un terzo, è esattamente una fotocopia di "Cold And Gloom". Death metal diretto, ben suonato e scritto in modo piacevolmente asciutto ed essenziale. Che una volta va bene, ma una seconda, specialmente se a cadenza regolare, inizia a stufare. D'accordo non avere velleità o ambizioni, tuttavia è il caso che i Nostri inseriscano un minimo di inventiva nel prossimo disco: già il prodotto in partenza è un album fotocopia di mille altri — cosa accettabile, se si tratta di un'uscita di genere — però se l'autoindulgenza ti porta a registrare più e più volte addirittura la stessa musica, senza cambiare una virgola nell'approccio e nel risultato, allora forse qualche domanda è il caso di porsela. E non è detto che le risposte siano positive.
http://www.aristocraziawebzine.com/recensioni/7579-monastery-dead-black-gold-appetite
This is a very interesting album of melodic death metal forged with distinctive of progressive, thrash metal and grind core.
Coming from Saint Petersburg, Russia, these guys have two full length albums on their back, and here is the last one released in 2015. Everything is aggressive, melodic and very well tied with solid guitar riffs and destructive drums. Also, I have to say that this band has added all the time high doses of brutality and vocalist Anton Malov made a really good work, delivering holocaustic gutturals. All tracks are complex and fast, and have roots in old school American death metal, but seem like these guys know where they are standing up, and they are trying to find a unique sound. If you are purist in grindcore music or death metal, maybe this one will not catch your attention, but I admit that I find attractive this hybrid, as the band has thick roots in putrefactive music and solid guitar riffs. This is a very well tied band delivering high quality extreme metal music, and you should support underground music. Time shall tell.
https://zombieritualzine.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/album-review-monastery-dead-black-gold-appetite/
Russian Death Metal, it is that time of night! MONASTERY DEAD hails from Russia, and this is their third full length album, and the first time I stumble over the band. As you might have read out of the title, if not the cover artwork gave it away, the lyrical work on this release, is most of the way, politically and society releated. Actually a quite cool deal if you ask me, even though some might wanna say that Death Metal should be about death. The band is delivering a groovy take on technical Death Metal where SUFFOCATION and MISERY INDEX seems to be the big inspirations. They are delivering some good smashing Death Metal, with a good flow, some nice riffing and grooving and clever breaks. I'm not the biggest fan of the vocal delivery, though that's a matter of taste, it as such fits the music well enough. Though I'm missing a tad, some more energy and intensity, a more hardhitting production, as it is a little tame and sterile, and that cuts off the energy I guess. MONASTERY DEAD is doing well, as a run of the mill band in this subgenre of Death Metal, I just miss some more aggression and a little kick in the head, once in a while, it becomes too bland, and after half of the album it all blends together, more or less. There are some good elements and things to develop further into some really hardhitters, though we're just not all there yet.
http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/Albums-EPs-Demos/M/MONASTERY-DEAD--10412.html
Петроградская школа дет-металла выдвинула немало толковых групп. Среди них команда MONASTERY DEAD, которая в прошлом году зафиксировалась на чугунных скрижалях металлической истории со своим сабжевым альбомом. Надо заметить, что это уже третий полноценный альбом формации, которая разливает железо с ноль 4-го года. Коллектив немало гастролировал, неустанно набивая фэн базу, а также поддерживал такие столпы современного музыкального дестроя как Haemorrhage, Dying Fetus, Fleshless, Amagortis, Debauchery. Так что группу хорошо знают, приветствуют и закупаются реальными дисками да мерчем.
На этом компакте MONASTERY DEAD тотально валят среднетемповый и шустрее дэт метал, внятный хорошо прописанный и по настоящему горячечный, ибо в горнило выпекающее сей продукт было закинуто немало эмоций. Это прекрасно чувствуется уже где-то со второй компо, стоит только подождать. К слову, ребята записывались в RZS studio, которая показывает значительный результат по итоговому продукту. Это важно в любом стиле, но в дет металле важнее многих. Важно это и для потенциальных покупателей — ценителей экстремального муЗЛА, которые желают получить на диске мощный звук с широким динамическим диапазоном.
MONASTERY DEAD изобличены были не раз )) в умении писать четко структурированные компо. В этом они иногда близки к образчикам техничного дэта, так помашут флажком красным перед носом и дальше валить могучий дэт. Иногда он приобретает классные качевые интонации, которые (инфа 110 процентов) уверен, прекрасно воспринимаются на концертах, заводят толпу на раз. А иногда MONASTERY DEAD очень близки к брутал дету, по настроению и риффингу. Это струнное разнообразие не сыграло с группой злую, как полагается шутку, (и не могло) ибо этот альбом разнообразен по подходам и духу.
Гитарист здесь многофактурен — если запланировано, то по требованию композера запиливает красивые соляки, даже и чувственные, и пронзительные. Трак 7 хороший тому пример. Когда инструментал становится лирическим перевалом — эмоциональной кульминацией альбома MONASTERY DEAD — минорный и одновременно с притязанием на региональное господство. Ибо наполнен внутренней силой, да и просто музыкальной взрывчаткой, которая хитро уложена в компо. Так, что ее присутствие чувствуется кожей. И спросите гитариста про тяжесть пудовых гирь, ибо кажется такие артефакты летят вместе с искрами из под его струн — когда необходима титаническая монструозная заготовка.
Все таки это дьявольски экстремальный альбом. Местами гитареро срывается в трешевые упражнения, что тоже будет приятно истинным фэнам злобарьского звучания. А вот в трехминутная Lie — трак№10 — струнные пройдя сквозь неспешный чугунный водопад, после средины конструируют вполне «технические» эскапады,
Особая строка в описи имущества группы — это вокал Антона. Внятный разборчивый, гроул которым он осыпает штукатурку с ближайших стен. Своим встроенным инструментом он пользуется вольготно, как и полагается на Руси, широко и весьма профессионально. Иногда возникают моменты, когда просто ожидаешь вступления вокалиста, в другой раз дивишься, как Антон мастерски решает поставленные перед ним не самые простые задачи.
Общее впечатление от диска весьма позитивное — от него с первых аккордов прямо-таки несет адским фирменными звуком, настроением, самобытностью, законченностью. Оформление MONASTERY DEAD также радует исполнением и продуманным дизайном. Буклет здесь вложен будто бы 8-страничный, но на самом деле только двухсторонний, ибо он сложен вчетверо)).
Monastery Dead - Black Gold Appetite (2015) | Russia | Death Metal | SODP031
After having discovered Dig Me No Grave and Bestial Deform I went out and searched for more Russian Death Metal. This brought me to Monastery Dead, another hidden gem of the Russian underground. Hailing from Saint Petersburg they are active since 2004 and with “Black Gold Appetite” they have already released their third full length album.
Like a lot of newer Death Metal bands they take inspirations from the big names all across the globe. The core sound is pretty much Old School DM but Monastery Dead ramp up the technical complexity in places so that their tracks do not sound overly simplistic. The combination of the primitive rhythms and the furious instrumental work is presented in a way that one does not stand in the way of the other.
Drummer Kirill Zharikov is doing a fine job keeping a steady rhythm with a few outbreaks of technical prowess when the song asks for it. Kirill Tatrinov is the star of the show here with his spectacular guitar work. While a lot of the riffs are pretty much the same as 95 % presented by other DM bands he has added some variations that lead to fantastic momentum in several spots. The lead work is great as well combining longer full blown solos and some short eruptions placed all over the tracks. The songwriting is consistent giving the whole album a nice and natural flow.
The vocals are deep and growly and while there are other DM singers that articulate the lyrics in a better understandable way they are completely serviceable and perfectly fit to the music. For a DM band the lyrics are surprisingly well thought out covering themes like global industries or digital revolutions – of course in a pretty rotten way.
The production could have done with just a bit of extra punch but overall the sound has enough grit and filth to satisfy most DM fans. Over my headphones I have been able to capture all details which would have been a shame if buried in the mix. The bass has been mixed a bit into the forefront which is another nice aspect.
Just to be clear: “Black Gold Appetite” is not a Technical DM album. First and foremost this is an album for fans looking for another traditional DM album but with a bit of a twist.