Candlelight Records, 2007
Genre: Experimental/Electronic
1. Deeprooted
2. Come to Pass
3. I Watch You Fall
4. A Cancer in Our Midst (Plague One)
5. Last Lights
6. Nobody Wants the Truth
7. My Journal of the Plague Years (Fuckmensch Warmensch)
8. The Cure-All
9. Transmigrant
10. Son of Night Brother of Sleep
Alright, if you noticed the genre
listing above it’s pretty obvious that this will be the last Manes album to be
reviewed by me. I really don’t care what
else they release after this. The only
reason you’re seeing a review for it now is because I want to let people who
liked this band know why I am going to stop and to make others aware that this
is a very different project now… even more so than “Vilosophe”.
I must admit, after a few listens I
enjoyed the “Vilosophe” album. Granted
it was drastically different from “Under Ein Blodraud Maane” and I naturally
assumed they might keep up the experimental and progressive sound. Typically, that’s not something I really go
after, but I thought “Vilosophe” was fairly decent, so I decided to get their
following album. I never expected them
to shift into this absolute bullshit found on “How the World Came to an End,”
especially after hearing “View”. This
album is seriously absolute shit.
“Deeprooted” is the only song with
distorted guitar, as far as I can tell.
Everything else is buried in a sea of electronics so I can’t really tell
all that well. Anyway, at first glance
you can tell they were going for something different with “Deeprooted” and at
first it was just okay, but then you realize what it sounds like… Korn. Seriously, the newer Korn material sounds
just like this. Even the vocalist sounds
like Jonathan Davis. I could honestly
deal with that to a degree compared to other things, and I never imagined what
would come to pass on “Come to Pass” (pun intended). There is rap on this song. Rap.
Manes started off as a Black Metal band and this is what they have degenerated
to. The worst part is… they were a good
Black Metal band. A great band, my how
the mighty have fallen. This brings a
whole new pinnacle to the word terrible in my eyes. The more confusing aspect is that this Rap is
actually in French for the most part… the band is from Norway
The only thing that remained the same
throughout this was the dark atmosphere Manes created on prior releases. However, judging by how quickly they change
what they want to do, it could be any moment before they’re writing theme songs
for My Little Pony. They’re clearly
trying to make their mark into a whole different genre and attempting some kind
of diversified fame and catering to people who listen to shitty music like
Coldplay and think “trip-hop” is something to get excited about. Basically this is Euro-trash avant-garde
Pop. I think Candlelight is trying to
compete with Nuclear Blast with this kind of a release, so you can surely
expect some more quality releases from them.
I wonder how long it will take for Candlelight to lose all the metal
bands they signed. At this point
Gorgoroth might as well start looking for a new home and any other Black Metal
or Death Metal band. And here I thought
we might actually have a fairly well known respectable label forming, but one
could say that about Nuclear Blast and Century Media in the early 1990’s. Oh how time does fly. Furthermore on June 19, 2007 Candlelight prepares to release
the Marilyn Manson DVD, so prepare to witness the fall of yet another label
that used to bring Metal to the world and is now cashing in on the glory of
Corporate American Music. They will be
in bed with Virgin Records soon, no doubt.
The album title seems to work for this
release though. “How the World Came to
an End.” This makes sense since this
band starts off with Black Metal and changed into some idiotic Pop group, very
similar to what Satyricon is attempting to release at the moment. More cash for these bands so they can buy up
their 12 year old female fans all in the name of spreading evil… or some other
pseudo-philosophical motivation a band needs to justify having produced this
tripe. Candlelight even describes this
album as “Avant
Metal/Dark Rave”, the Rave part I can sort of agree with, but where is the
Metal on this? Is Rave even a genre? I thought a Rave was a party and they play
things like Trance or Techno at Raves? I
could be wrong… I’ve never been to a Rave and I don’t listen to that kind of
music. Anyway, the metal is not really
existent, except for that first song, if you actually think Nu-Metal is real
Metal, that is. Even Candlelight seems
to want to mask the fact that there is Rap on here for the sake of album sales
to the Metal public, they know what their demographics are, but they’re trying
to branch out, so why not mask your product? Don’t expect
the world of Metal to be all that respectable for that much longer. Hell at The End right now you can buy the
latest Björk releases. I mean, it’s nice
to see a label achieve success, but at what cost? Call me an idealist, an over-intellectualized
reviewer. I don’t give a fuck, I know
who I am and I know what I do, but what I see happening in the Metal world
today is absolute bullshit. It’s high
time someone stood up and told it like it is or else we’ll all be dancing
around listening to shitty music like Aqua talking about how we live in a
plastic world. If you want to be a
degenerate fuck-up then support this, and judging by most of the humans I deal
with, this will get supported.
-End Rant-
Or begin rant... depending on how terrible you think the sample is.
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