Topic: Arsis should change their name to Arses

[Abnormal Freak]

'cos each consecutive album has been disappointment after disappointment, and the remastered reissue of their debut is the nail in the coffin.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sk1y31k867otcdx

Listen to that shit. Listen to that shitty bullshit. Way to muck things up. Levels have been boosted to make the guitars sound crunchier, but the drums have lost their kick and everything sounds really muffled. This boggles my mind anyone ever thought a remaster was necessary, 'cos (a) the album came out in 2004, and (b) it sounded fantastic. Now it sounds like a buttful of dicks.

[Gunlord]

What's Arsis? u_u

[Abnormal Freak]

A totally tits death metal band who only released one and a half good albums.

:o

If you like metal even in the slightest, buy or download the original version of A Celebration of Guilt. It's a kickin', rip-roarin' album with lotso good mel-o-deez.

[Gunlord]

Sounds Metapocalyptic

[JR]

I like their first album a lot, but actually I think We Are the Nightmare is still my favorite. I just really like the technical sound on it, I guess. And the fact that it still kept a fairly good sense of melody while doing it.

And honestly I like a few songs from Starve For the Devil, too...Sable Rising, Closer to Cold, and Beyond Forlorn (even though that one sounded more like Arch Enemy than Arsis). Though that album really did disappoint me overall. And I think every song has some kind of lyrical reference to James Malone's eating disorder, which was kind of weird.

I do agree that there's no reason to remaster their debut, though, especially if it sounds worse now. It's just totally unnecessary, and sounds like it was done purely for financial reasons. Wait...holy shit, does that mean Dave Mustaine is in the band now?!? 

[Abnormal Freak]

Nah. If that were the case, tracks would have gone missing causing the band to re-record and remix bits for the remaster. :o

[Nail_Bombed]

A Celebration Of Guilt is totally awesome. After that it gets a bit..... meh. United In Regret had some decent bits but it was an album of theirs that seemed to be doing too much at once and coming up with, honestly, a mess of ideas that didn't stick. We Are The Nightmare was decent enough but didn't have the urgency of their debut. And then they went onto their version of Carcass's Swansong with Starve For The Devil. Meh.

[Abnormal Freak]

I haven't heard anything beyond We Are the Nightmare, but I gotta say, I totally dig Swansong—a shit-ton, in fact. :o

[Nail_Bombed]

In fairness, Swansong is in itself a good record - it's just not the Carcass I knew/know. To be honest, the early grind albums didn't click with me for a while, but Symphonies after repeated listens was excellent, and Necrotism and Heartwork were awesome. I just found Swansong to be dissapointing. It's still good, but not what I was expecting or wanting at the time.

[Abnormal Freak]

Have you heard Blackstar's Barbed Wire Soul? It goes even more in that "death'n'roll" style, has some songs that are kinda stoner rockish. I love the hell out of that as well. :p