GET YOUR RETRIBUTION: ENTIRE NEW SHADOWS FALL ALBUM STREAMING NOW
Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 6:19pm by Axl Rosenberg
Oh boy: what an excellent way to end your day. Shadows Fall’s highly anticipated new album, Retribution, is streaming in full right now. Go listen.
The album hits stores tomorrow on Everblack Industries/Ferret. We hope y’all dig it!!!
-AR
if its so highly anticipated, why has the general opinion on it been the vocals suck and the song writing is lazy?
“General opinion”? You forgot to link to your sources…………I’ll await your answer.
I’ll answer my question. I did a Google search for “Shadows Fall Retribution review” and read the first six reviews, in order. The sixth review was the first negative one and it was more of the “meh” variety. Three were 3.5/5, one was 4/5 and one was 5/6. That’s an average of 3.73/5. The semi-negative review didn’t have a numerical score.
So it would appear that the “general opinion”, at least from a quick cursory view, is quite positive. I believe I even read the phrases, “finest work to date” and “now, THAT’S more like it”.
I have had this album for 3 weeks now. I will say it is not a bad album. I am not a huge Shadows Fall fan anyways but the vocals are horrendous. For some reason I just cant stand Brian Fair’s voice. I give it a 7 out of 10.
I like it so far. Definitely a lot more engaging than previous stuff of their I’ve heard.
+1
Agreed… Their riffs are finally interesting, and his vocals don’t suck anymore… They’re not quite “great” yet, but they are definitely on their way.
Big return to form.
i dig it a lot. My fav since The Art Of Balance
I agree. That was the album that got me into them. And each album since then has been exponetially(sp?) worse. But what I’m hearing right now, this is good. I’m talking old SF good. I’m definatly going to have to pick this one up.
sounds like Trivium in places.
I liked it. I gave it a quasi-review. check it.
Definitely agree on the Trivium thing. On the first listen, in places I actually wondered if it wasn’t Matt Heafy doing guest vox
Ive only listened to a few of them thus far, but Im liking it a lot…especially when it comes down to the soloing…
I thought I’d hate this, but damn, this might be a 5/5. Fantastic album, not a single weak track.
Return to Art of Balance quality work. I’m BEYOND impressed!!
So far so good.
Hmmm….haven’t listened yet, but if most of you like it, I wonder where this guy is coming from: http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=2129
it comes from a guy who gave kittie a 3.5/5.
http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=2267
his opinion is therefore null and void.
Everything Iv heard from Retribution sounds awesome, they did some different things on this album and it payed off… Im waitin to get it in the mail \m/
Songwriting’s a hell of a lot better than it’s been in a while. Good stuff.
Great playing but the music doesn’t captivate me at all.
I agree, stellar performance by all of them.
For me though, I think this is the first time that their music actually does captivate me. I really like this album so far
I feel bad for people who are into this band. they are a pathetic excuse for a metal band. Their gimmick is their singer’s disgusting hair. They don’t even look like a bad ass metal band, instead of bunch of mechanics who play music on the weekends in their garages. Shadows Fall makes me sick.
I have to agree about having a distaste for this band, but what the hell does not “looking like a bad ass metal band” even mean? Not enough corpse paint or clown masks for you? Basing your opinion on a band based on their look is retarded.
they just look lame. everything about them annoys me. they can’t break up fast enough.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “Mechanic Metal” is so true about these Affliction shirt wearing tools. They need to realize, that they have alot in common with Dokken, and not Death or Athiest.
What does your definition of a “cool” metal band look like….KISS? They are normal looking white guys wearing T-Shirts and jeans (other than Fair, who had dreads – which according to you is their “gimmick”).
Your reasons for hating are some of the dumbest and worst I have ever heard. And claiming some dude’s hair in a metal band is “disgisting” (and annoys you) is perhaps the fruitiest thing I have seen said on this board. Are you like, TOTALLLY grossed out by their unkempt fingernails too?
Haha! Nice.
Meh
Is there every any positive album reviews anymore? Do people even like music anymore? If you listen to this board you would think we all hate music and each other.
And you would be would be correct, most days. Or so it would seem.
I am really looking forward to this album and Megadeth’s Endgame. Hey, I love Shadows Fall!
Oh fuck. Oh fuck yeah! I’m picking this up right now.
I think this is probably the best they’ve ever done. I picked it up 3 hours ago, and I’m starting on my fourth spin of it now. I’m fucking digging this.
So forgettable, it sounds to me like something that WWE would push.
Hmm, Bark at the Moon as a bonus cover track!
I like SF a lot, and this new record sounds like some of the best stuff they have done, but MAN they get involved with some shitty tours (more often than not it seems).
The tour they are currently on is: Shadows Fall, Five Finger Death Punch, OTEP, and 2 Cents (The “Shock and Raw Tour”?)….GODDAMN that’s an atrocious lineup.
I’d blame their label Ferret, but OTEP and FFDP aren’t on it. Oh well. Get drunk, go late, and support Shadows Fall (they are headlining…I HOPE?!)
hey wow. it’s not toasted shit. i’m not totally into this the way i was into “the art of balance”, but it’s not all that bad compared to the last two full-lengths they put out.