Autopsy acts of the unspeakable zip

This album has a very interesting and unique sound to it. It's a little bit spacey, and feels rather abstract and surreal.

I think this was a good choice because it complements the music quite nicely. More on that later. The mix is good here, the guitars are audible but somewhat grimy and not polished. The drums are mixed in very well, not too loud or overpowering. The vocals feel a tad loud in the mix but it doesn't detract from the overall sound at all.

I'm going to take a whole paragraph here to talk about Reifert's vocals. Holy fuck. He's all over the place, always teetering on the edge of complete and utter brutality.

His voice had never sounded more vicious up to this point. He really is one of the best vocalists in all of death metal and I think a lot of that comes from the sheer variety of vocalizations he makes. He never stays with one too long, switching between different vocalizations constantly which makes the album feel more exciting.

The vocals on this album are absolutely stellar. The writing on this album is fantastic. The leads in particular feel more frantic and urgent on this release.

They do know when it's time to slow it down, but this album is all about fast, quick songs. Reifert's drumming is top-notch and spot-on. Also, I think the way he tunes his kit sounds amazing. It's a perfect compliment to the spacey atmosphere of the album.

Very percussive sounding, particularly the bass and snare. You'll find that the riffs, while not of any sort of technical nature, are very effective and well-written. Every song is distinctly its own entity, which is a little bit difficult to do with as much speed as there is on this album. Nothing blends together and gets monotonous.

It's always fresh and invigorating. This album is, unfortunately, not given the credit it deserves. While people tend to dislike Shitfun more, this album doesn't get the praise it's owed. Really, it's an absolutely phenomenal album. This album is criminally underrated. Every song is succicnt enough to not wander into meandering territory. Something must be said about the production. I have always said that I believe Autopsy puts a lot of thought into their album sound, and this album is no different.

It feels a little more surreal and abstract, but it fucking works. Deep, gurgly, intense. The solos are a little more wild on this album than they were on previous albums. The drums are crushing, and the whole album start-to-finish is a cogent and sharp listening experience. They clearly put some work into this album and the proof is in the proverbial pudding. Highly recommended. Apparently, Autopsy's breaking point was just after Mental Funeral, where their structure and consistency decomposed like a rotting corpse to turn into chunky, messy soup.

I have yet to hear the album Shitfun, which many say is the worst and most disappointing Autopsy release, but I decided to try out Acts of the Unspeakable, which hinted towards the decay of the band's musical credibility in the death metal scene.

We open the album with Meat, and a desolate, slow-paced doom riff that introduces us to the dank ugliness heard and felt on the rest of the album.

After that, the song abruptly shifts pace into a whirlwind of drumming, guitars, and spitting vocals from Chris Reifert. From there, the song shifts back and forth between rapid pummeling speed to slow, atmospheric doom-rock sections.

As the numerous short songs flash by, the album swirls haphazardly between break-neck speeds of chugging sludge, rocking riff sections, and zoned-out doomy interludes. There seems to be little focus in the songwriting, and these three tones switch with each other at pretty much any given time, giving the whole thing a tumultuous feel that works sometimes and distracts at others. Out of the whole album, I find that the fastest 'merciless' pounding sections lack a lot to me, coming off as little more than minimally-structured heavy noise reminiscent to grindcore and goregrind.

When the album takes the time to stop and sniff the roses, such as in the beginning of Your Rotting Face, I feel the music resonates and breathes more, creating a moody swampy atmosphere that almost reeks with the vibe of asphyxiation and corpses rotting in a moist, dark tomb, their stench thick and cloying. That's not to say that all of the fast parts in the album are a mind-numbing bore.

There are some good fast headbanging moments, like in the opening of Death Twitch, but for the most part, when the album moves into full throttle, I can't tell what's really going on other than an avalanche of noise. The standout moments come out of the woodwork haphazardly, making it so that rather than having favorite songs for the most part, there are only favorite moments. The music's sound is quite a bit different from on the previous two albums: it is a spacey, abstract sound due to heavy reverb on both the guitars and vocals.

These two aspects of the music bounce off each other to create a muddy, gnarly, almost wet sound that Autopsy fans can surely identify with. The guitars shift in tone and pace often, coming to abrupt halts or speeding up to full tilt.

With the abrupt changes of pace, I find the atmosphere shifts too. Generally, though, everything seems swampy and dingy. When the guitars take centre stage, their odd-sounding riffs add an element of ominous surreality which I find is best showcased on Funereality. The only thing that serves as an anchor to the sporadic music is the drums, which unfortunately lack the bone-crushing intensity found on Mental Funeral, though they still have many opportunities to go above and beyond standard timekeeping, and consequently have a good amount of variety.

Chris Reifert's roaring, gurgling growls and screams of Mental Funeral and Severed Survival have become short, spitting shouts that give the music an immediate and somewhat rushed tone, but Chris treats the listener with the occasional prolonged screams and growls that seem to bounce off the tight confines of the claustrophobic coffin that the music creates.

There is some experimentation with them too--sometimes Chris tries a punkish yell, and at other times there seems to be some digitalized vocal effect on them, but both of these things happen rarely throughout the album. Acts of the Unspeakable has 18 songs that flash by in 35 minutes, most songs hovering around the two minute mark, with one song just touching the four minute mark, and one song being as short as twenty seconds.

This causes for many screeching halts followed by short silences in the music. Although the many songs do come off like a band's early demo, sporadic and hectic and unpolished even after multiple listens, and it can be irritating, especially from track , where I find the music the most unintelligible and clattery. This is quite the detractor, especially considering the focused structure and meaty but consistent flow of Mental Funeral and Severed Survival. My Beat feat. Palmer Brown - Blaze MP3.

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