Not magnificent but certainly enjoyable, Yelling at Mary is worth acquiring if you're a fan of Americana and roots rock. This isn't to say that Karlzen is in a class with Springsteen, only that she uses his influence to her advantage. "Another Town, Another Place" find her trying to cope with heartbreak by Road with improving your life- "Anywhere Is Better Than Here" and Has a knack for embracing songs that equate traveling or hitting the Newfound appreciation of the town she once found boring. While "Dimestore Life" finds a small-town teen-ager longing to travelĪnd see more of the world - only to end up going back home at 31 with a Picture of the Old West and an American town near the Mexican border, Voice might be overly cutesy at times, but her lyrics show her to be a Karlzen wrote most of the songs on this CD, which favors an earthy and rootsy approach to pop/rock, Americana, and folk-rock. Growing on you - the more one listens to Yelling at Mary, the more one realizes that she does have a certain charm. Punters features exclusive artwork and a bonus cover of NASUM's "Wrath". Special edition of the album designed specifically for the French Is a face breaker, a machine gunner, and a memorable shape-shifter. It all benefits the greater BENIGHTED good. Yep, it works, almost as well as the strategic vocal shiftsįrom growl to shriek to pig squeal. Memorable ones, particularly during the first half of the disc.ĭid I hear some SLIPKNOT-ish, turntable scratching effects on "Drowning"? I believe I did and that's no reason to enjoy "Asylum Cave"Īny less. The upshot is that neck snapping moments are nearly as frequent as the When BENIGHTED fire up the grinder it's like NASUM on crack and when they groove it out it is pure, head-banging bliss, as heard on tracks like "Prey", "Fitzl", and the album's strongest cut, the equally diverse and memorable "Let the Blood Spill Between My Broken Teeth". And when it does cool out aīit it is only to reveal a somehow fitting moment of relative calmĭuring the atmospheric, darkly melodic moments heard on "Hostile". ![]() Unhinged ferocity that almost never lets up. Neither is the shape shifting, technically spattered,Īnd grind-infused death metal that comes with slamming grooves and an Yeah, the subject matter of "Asylum Cave" is not of the DisneyĬhannel variety. Not familiar with the name? He's the Austrian nut job that was arrested in 2008 for holding his own daughter Elisabeth captive in a hidden basement area of his house and "fathered" seven children with her. Telling the tale of a schizophrenic man that takes his twisted, Grooving, and breaking down the structure at just the right moment while Review by Scott Alisoglu for ĭo you enjoy the varied extreme metal sounds of CEPHALIC CARNAGE, DESPISED ICON, and ABORTED? Have you ever yearned for a group that blended all three into one album? Then have I got a band for you! On "Asylum Cave", France's BENIGHTED mix and match with pizzazz and forsake neither melody nor their own technical bent toward death metal.īENIGHTED have done a smashing job of shrapnel-blasting,
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