Comments on: HATESPHERE EXPLORE MELODIC DEATH METAL MEDIOCRITY ON TO THE NINES

By: Kasper Maigaard

Kasper Maigaard — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:46:39 +0000

1) Clearly a danish band cannot be “cribbing from Gothenburg”, as Gothenburg is swedish.
2) This isn’t melodic death metal. It’s hardcore/thrash, just like every other album they’ve made.
3) You cannot “crib” from the swedish city of melodic death metal if you’re danish and not melodic death metal.
4) Copenhagen HAS a 7-11, so obviously we won’t need an equivalent of any sort.

I kinda agree with the verdict. They’ve made better than this.

By: earthsherm

earthsherm — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:30:39 +0000

this review is packed full of mistakes.

By: dude

dude — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:05:42 +0000

Cult Of Luna is from Sweden

By: Menneske

Menneske — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:28:25 +0000

This is somewhat difficult to take seriously. Hatesphere have taken a serious dive on this album (new vocalist/direction) but their earlier material is some of the best new death-thrash of the decade.

Listen to albums like Bloodred Hatred or The Sickness Within, which both, despite their painfully cliché names, exhibit more musical grit and energy than a vast number of swedish, norwegian and finnish bands. Both albums are fucking excellent and the band is great live.

I wish people would stop pegging countries they know hardly anything about over individual things like one band taking an unfortnate detour. It’s arrogant, and it’s ignorant. Denmark may not be the most notable “metal” country here in scandinavia but they churn out some seriously high quality stuff from time to time.
It takes alot for me to admit that since I’m Swedish.

By: vegard

vegard — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:08:44 +0000

hey, just because our beer actually has taste doesn’t mean it tastes worse!

no offence to the american beer, i love how you can drink crazy amounts of it;)

By: Selaphiel

Selaphiel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:00:57 +0000

@Kye: That’s what I was thinking. I’m not too big of a listener, but I could’ve sworn they’re more often than not classified as power metal.

By: wallsinsteadofbridges

wallsinsteadofbridges — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:59:04 +0000

uhm… I haven’t heard their new album yet but I heard their last record which was a quite good modern thrash metal album.
Perhaps they changed their musical direction since then, I think they have a new singer too.
And yeah Cult of Luna are from sweden. ^^

It’s funny but I think it’s an undeniable fact that you americans sometimes have problems with the genre categorization of european metal bands.
I’ve heard that Carcass, Dissection or Behemoth play black metal, and now Children of Bodom play blackened Death Metal.
They neither have something to do with the Black Metal nor the Death Metal genre.
It’s just shitty modern metal with thrash and melo-death influences plus faggy keyboards.

By: DBR

DBR — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Nice review, Sammy, but Cult of Luna are actually from Sweden but they have an awesome track on Somewhere Along the Highway called “Finland”. I made the same mistake once, too!

As for decent Danish bands Konkhra and Mercenary come to mind but they’re both a bit inconsistent. My personal theory is that the metal gets better the worse the beer gets. Norway and Sweden? Terrible Beer. Denmark on the other hand has Tuborg, Carlsberg, and yummy Faxe.

By: Kye

Kye — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:47:28 +0000

Children of Bodom…blackened death metal.

Really?

By: Sammy O'Hagar

Sammy O'Hagar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:10:59 +0000

THAT’S the band I was forgetting. Well, sheeit. Them too.

By: hibernum

hibernum — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:43:57 +0000

On Denmark: two words for you – Mercyful Fate