Yesterdays purchases were
Kataklysm - Serenity In Fire
Quebec grind from the original masters. This is the album guys like Hatebreed and other top of the pop chunk metal bands would be probably releasing if they had the balls to push that extra bit.
I've made some outlandish metal related statements in here, but I would match Martin Maurais blast beat against a Flo Mounier blast beat. The guy is just sick doing triplets on the snare.
guitars are typical chug chug lay waste to everything in sight mid paced death groove with some odd waves of sweden style coming in during the faster free flowing moments. Very acceptable.
vocals, however, are pretty much not. The grunted lows are fine enough without going into ridiculously lower than the bass levels(which i hate hate hate), but the screams are thin and forced. Not a strong point.
Laz should buy this...next payday after ozzfest.
I have a couple of samplers from brave words and bloody knuckles magazine, but I'm still listening to kataklysm so no comments on those yet.