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Soilent Green
Album: Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Label: Metal Blade Records
Track Listing
01. Blessed In The Arms Of Servitude
02. In The Same Breath
03. Antioxidant
04. Lovesick
05. Rock Paper Scissors
06. Superstition Aimed At One’s Skull
07. For Lack Of Perfect Words
08. When All Roads Lead To Rome
09. All This Good Intention Wasted In The Wake Of Apathy
10. A Pale Horse And The Story Of The End
Reviewer: Eric
After four full lengths Soilent Green have outgrown there old label, Relapse
Records. This southern sludge metal band is set to unveil Inevitable Collapse in
the Presence of Conviction, their first album on Metal Blade Records. Is Soilent
Green ready to be heard by metal heads across the globe?
I was really looking forward to this album, but for some reason I am
disappointed. There has been quite a few death metal albums out this year and
this one just falls behind all of them. Soilent Green is primarily a sludge
metal band, but there is a lot of death metal influences in these eleven tracks.
Ben Falgoust’s vocals don’t seem all there to me. The last two Soilent Green
albums had much better vocals, Sewn Mouth Secrets, their second album, is still
one of my favorite underground releases. To me it seems the life force has been
drained from Falgoust. Yes this is a new Soilent Green album, but I am not
buying into that much.
Another thing that isn’t sitting too well with me is Tommy Buckley’s drumming.
Buckley is also the drummer of Crowbar, another sludge metal band. Crowbar’s
2005 release, Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, had some damn good drumming. Them
tempo was alright dead on. With this album I only enjoyed Lovesick; his mini
drum solo towards the end is fast and furious. His drumming isn’t necessarily
bad I’m just saying it wasn’t as good as I thought it would’ve been.
Probably the best part of the album is the team work from the band. Some of
these tracks are written so good it’s almost scary. The middle part in Rock Paper
Scissors, where the band plays together with Falgoust’s vocals, is perfect. The
timing here is dead on, everyone in the band is playing at the same time and it
sounds so natural. Soilent Green is defiantly a band that doesn’t mess around
with their music.
Final Verdict
Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction has its flaws, but I still
enjoy it. I was expecting an album from these guys that would blow me away and
it just wasn’t happening. This is a good first album for Metal Blade, but this
is nothing like their other albums. I will say this is the album that will bring Soilent Green to the masses, there is no denying that.
Rating
7.50 out of 10
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