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Living Sacrifice |
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Living Sacrifice |
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Line up:
D.J. - Vocals, Bass Guitar
Bruce Fitzhugh - Guitars
Jason Truby - Guitars
Lance Garvin - Drums |
Track Listing:
Violence
Internal Unrest
Second Death
Obstruction
Walls of Seperation
Phargx Imas
No Grave Concern
Dealing with Ignorance
The Prodigal |
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Hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, Living Sacrifice is one of the most popular Christian metal bands, and they are fairly well known in the secular scene as well. With their self-titled debut on Rex Records, they started their legacy. The album is decent thrash, mostly under the influence of Slayer, which is heavily seen in the guitar, be it the riffing or the lead guitar. D.J.'s vocal pattern is very similar to Tom Araya's, but his voice is distinguishing enough to give Living Sacrifice their own sound. The tracks that really stand out are Violence, Internal Unrest, and Walls of Seperation. If you like thrash, I recommend this album. Grade: B |
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Nonexistent |
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Line up:
D.J. - Vocals, Bass Guitar
Bruce Fitzhugh - Guitars
Jason Truby - Guitars
Lance Garvin - Drums |
Track Listing:
Emerge
Enthroned
Nonexistent
Haven of Blasphemy
...To Nothing
Void Expression
Atonement
Distorted
Chemical Straightjacket
Without Distinction |
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The second release by Living Sacrifice, Nonexistent, is probably their best album done. The song structure and the guitar work are excellent. However, most fans do not like D.J.'s approach vocally as he sounds like a zombie. I however really enjoy them and think they are perfect for the album. Emerge is a dark intro track with Gregorian chant and a man giving a war speech (or so it seems), which then flows right into Enthroned. Aside from the shredding guitar, there is a short interlude in the middle where the main focus is arpeggios with drums in the background before a build up back into main riffing. Picking up the pace a bit, Nonexistent comes flying at you, and one of the main riffs feature a guitar squeel and progression that is heard later on in the album in the song Atonement. As the song comes to a close, the one guitar plays that riff and fades out as the other comes in doing the riff without distortion. A pretty arpeggio interlude is also heard in Void Expression, which then has a build up into some lead guitar and then back to the main riff to close the song. A beautiful guitar arpeggio opens up Atonement, probably the best song on the album. After a minute and a half, the song reaches a main riff and vocals come in about two minutes into the song. This is a great album, one of the best ever made in the Christian metal scene. Very dark and just plain metal. Grade: A- |
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Inhabit |
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Inhabit |
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Line up:
D.J. - Vocals, Bass Guitar
Bruce Fitzhugh - Guitars
Jason Truby - Guitars
Lance Garvin - Guitars |
Track Listing:
In the Shadow
Not Beneath
Sorrow Banished
Unseen
Inhabit
Breathing Murder
Mind Distant
Darkened
Indwelling
Departure |
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Inhabit is the third release by Arkansas metallers, Living Sacrifice, and the last one on Rex Records before the record company went bankrupt. It opens up tearing your face off with the fast paced In the Shadow. It plays through very rapidly and blends right into Not Beneath so smoothly one can hardly tell the transition as it just seems like a break in the song. About midway through the track there is an acoustic arpeggio interlude before the drums lead distorted guitar back into it and at the end fades out with an arpeggio and fast drumwork. Unseen opens up with pulsating guitars and drums before a steady growl paves way for the main riffing, which has an very crunching tone. The metal onslaught of Inhabit starts instantaneously, without any warning whatsoever. Breathing Murder opens up with ambience followed by an voice which is non-understandable except for the last two words, "quote Christians" and then the onslaught ensues. The use of echoing is done very good on Mind Distant in a dark foreboding way. At the end of Departure, there is a bonus track instruemental which starts off with wind and it was dedicated to those who committed suicide. This is a very good album and you can hear that they enjoyed writing and recording this album. Grade B+ |
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