Review for ANOXIA - Intense Killings...[views:10789][posts:32][CD Review:view review] _____________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 8:05am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] This is from http://www.metalcoven.com and is riddled with mistakes that I told them about and I hope they will edit this review, but you get the overall about the CD at least, so here it is... Reviewed - 04/22/05 ANOXIA Intense Killings [Pathos Productions] Rhode Island? Rhode Island? I've heard of this place before. Isn't this where Foghorn Leghorn lives? I honestly had not even thought of Rhode Island in a few years and then in one week I hear of the place not once, but twice! First I get in a CD titled "Intense Killings" to review by a Rhode Island band called ANOXIA, then a day later Rhode Island makes national news when that dude kills a cop in a police station, jumps out a third story window and later is brought into court with a severely smashed, swelled and cut up face wearing a Hannibal The Cannibal style plastic mask. This apparently happened when his face met the ground after his swan dive to the street below. That, or the cops got a little payback for the asswipe shooting one of their colleagues. Anyway, the guys family went nuts as the guy just stood there trying to watch what was going on through his battered and puffed up eyes. The music ANOXIA has put down for their recording of "Intense Killings" is so suffocatingly intense and brutal that one may end up looking just like this cop killer after listening to it. "Intense Killings" is for all practical purposes a totally guttural Death Metal band with some slight Grind overtones. And surprisingly, I love it! The main reason I like this so well is that the guitarist Dave Boccuzzi has come up with some interesting and hypnotizing hooks in his guitar work. There's not just power chord after power chord on this album because these neat little hooks happen quite often and take an album that may have been a bit dull without them and pushed it forward into the "pretty damn good" category. Sadly, upon researching the band for this review I found out that Dave Boccuzzi is no longer a part of ANOXIA. This sucks as not only are his guitar melodies / harmonies what made this album stand out, but he was the main lyric writer as well. The rest of the band seems to be full of great musicians as well. If I had to pick an outstanding musician aside from Dave, it would be bassist Chris McCarthy who has some excellent and fast basswork on parts of this album. Brutal as hell at all times, the respectable number of tempo changes assure that the listener will never become discontent. There's also sound samples from movies which I never get tired of. Vocalist Dan Pevide is one intense son of a bitch! I remember seeing some band at the Michigan Death Fest (can't remember their name) and being impressed with the intensity of their vocalist. He just gave it his all on stage and after the band was done he walked off covered in sweat and I swore he was going to collapse. This is the kind of intensity Dan has, if not more. His guttural and deep vocals are unbelievable. I couldn't sing like that for five minutes without fucking up my vocal chords! He has a wide range of styles, but all of them are Death Metal in vein. The higher pitched vocal delivery he has is a bit too much and comes across as gibberish, but the deeper aspect of his vocals are something to behold. The lyrics touch on a myriad of topics and at times are a bit humorous, which is always nice to me. Some song topics are about war / politics, gore, vampirism, and my favorite - one about robbing mausoleums! It's a story about some dude that breaks into mausoleums not to fuck inanimate corpses, but to rob them of their jewelry! The lyrics are well done and tell little stories which is far better than a lot bands these days that write lyrics that don't make sense. I'm not shitting you, I don't know how many times I've read a band's lyrics and not know what they are trying to say. Another thing about the lyrics is that there are A LOT of them. I bet someone could make a small novella out of them if they wished to do so. Dan has so many lyrics to sing within the span of a five minute song, I don't know where he finds time to breathe. He just keeps going and going. The production is okay for the most part, but the drums are a bit muffled sounding. It would have been nicer if they could have cleaned that up in the mix somehow before calling it good, but the rest of the production is great and really helps create a suffocating atmosphere. The artwork for the album is done well. While the painting isn't painted with any great detail, it does have some kickass lighting effects that make the shadows really standout. The cover art kind of reminds of of Jack The Ripper showing some dark and shadowy figure, knife in hand, carrying what seems to be a body in a bag. All of the ten thousand lyrics (okay, I'm exaggerating a bit) are included as well as a few live photos of the band members. ANOXIA has succeeded to impress me where so many others in this genre have failed. While not a perfect album, "Intense Killings" does have some interesting ideas that fans of Death Metal should find as a breath of fresh air. Now all we have to do is wait and see how the band fairs without the great guitar playing and lyrical prowess of Dave Boccuzzi, I have faith in the other members that they can pull off another good album in the future. Tracklist: 01. Rebirth Of Humanity 02. Visions Of The Unknown 03. Intense Killings 04. Vampiric Whore 05. Victimizing Demise 06. Mausoleum Desecrator 07. Sex Crime Atrocity 08. Bludgeoned By Revenge 09. Fecal Murder 10. Within The Subconscious Rating: 8.5 / 10 Release Date: 2004 Length: 36:08 Review By: Britton Dicks Total Reviews: (1) Bands Website: http://www.freewebs.com/anoxiabrutality/ :skull: |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 9:15am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] By the way, the lyrics to Mausoleum Desecrator are based on the true life of the vocalist and lyric writer Dan Pevide. He spent a few years in mental institutions and jail for his crimes, I shit you not! |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 9:26am - handinjury ""] I must offer the real truth about this review: All anoxia Lyrics by: Dan Pevide (ever since '96) 3 songs on the I.K. album were written by: Drummer Josh Rowel and Dave Boccuzzi. The other 7 songs written by Brian Hall. Album recorded by Dave Boccuzzi. Mausoleum Desecrator: Is a true life story about dans past games. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 9:29am - Joe/NotCommon ""] you don't write songs, stop lying |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 9:56am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Yeah Brian, that is why you need a BIOGRAPHY / INFORMATION SHEET like I have been bugging you and TERATISM about! |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 9:58am - Joe/NotCommon ""] haha good luck dwyer, i tried getting some of the bands i released stuff from to do that sort of shit and the only response i got was from RK saying they would make their own, that was months and months ago and nobody did anything. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 10:03am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Well, I am not sending out any more CDs for review without them, so both of the bands will not have many reviews. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 10:52am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Link to the topic on Metal Coven: http://www.metalcoven.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=6759 |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 12:00pm - handinjury ""] AUTOPSY_666 said:Link to the topic on Metal Coven: http://www.metalcoven.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=6759 Thats pretty funny john, that guy gets lost very easy. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 26,2005 12:07pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Yeah, I thought he was gonna trash the CD actually because he is a big Folk, Doom, Progressive Metal fan, so I am glad he gave it such a glowing review. |
| ______________________________ [Apr 26,2005 2:51pm - Blue ""] Joe/NotCommon said:haha good luck dwyer, i tried getting some of the bands i released stuff from to do that sort of shit and the only response i got was from RK saying they would make their own, that was months and months ago and nobody did anything. hes right you know. |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 4:22pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Damn slackers. |
| _________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 4:45pm - Paulll ""] I wish dave was still in the band |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 5:46pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Brian wrote 70% of the CD. Dave is a douche-nozzle. |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 5:50pm - the_reverend ""] yep |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 7:23pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Unmatched Brutality is now selling the CD, here is their review... Review: The brand new release and brand new line up from Anoxia breathes life into a once less than impressive outfit. With well structured and played songs, this is sure to bring the band some serious attention. Tight and fast drumming along the lines of Disavowed dominates this release! http://www.unmatchedbrutality.com/ |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 11:23pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] In the Metal Coven review the drums are muddy but in the Unmatched Brutality review the drumming dominates, strange. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 4,2005 9:14pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] More: Deep Send Records: "Hard to imagine that this band is actually good now, but this is very good. One of the few underground death metal releases worth picking up." Unmatched Brutality: "The brand new release and brand new line up from Anoxia breathes life into a once less than impressive outfit. With well structured and played songs, this is sure to bring the band some serious attention. Tight and fast drumming along the lines of Disavowed dominates this release" |
| __________________________________ [Jun 5,2005 2:33am - dread_104 ""] It's about time this band gets some credit. one of the top 3 death metal bands in New England. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 5,2005 2:42am - Robdeadskin ""] read our reviews for treufles tomb..hahahahaha |
| __________________________________ [Jun 5,2005 2:59am - dread_104 ""] i read that. at first i was offended, but then i read his review of Anoxia, and realized that he is a complete idiot. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 5,2005 3:47am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] That fucking idiot is a waste of skin. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 21,2006 6:05pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Lame new review... "Anoxia - Intense Killings (Pathos Productions) Hailing from Rhode Island (not to be confused with the UK Death metal act or the Danish heavy metal band), Anoxia deliver a pretty run of the mill but competent take on tight US brutal death metal. There’s nothing to get too excited about here unless your liable to really enjoy some slightly second tier Unique Leader/Unmatched Brutality styled carnage. It’s all very sample laden (the Ghostbusters sample that starts “Within the Subconscious” being particularly humorous), growly, blasty and rather singular, but for a quick blast of faceless American savagery, does the job, which seems to be the goal of Anoxia and the label, though they have yet to score another Dehumanized type release fora few years. I can’t recall actual moments of Intense Killings, upon its completion, but I do appreciate it’s no holds barred barrage (“Victimizing Demise”, “Mausoleum Desecrator”, “Sex Crime Atrocity”) and occasional, girthy slowdowns (i.e “Vampire Whore”, “Bludgeoned by Revenge”, “Fecal Murder”), that is delivered with conviction and acceptable tightness, but little long term impression or sense of something more than cookie cutter US death metal. Certainly not a bad death metal record, but hardly a great one either, and with so much truly mind blowing death metal around (i.e Benighted, Anata, Decapitated, Skinless), it’s hard to recommend this release to those other than the Rhode Island Death Metal Club. By Erik Thomas" |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 21,2006 6:11pm - My_Dying_Bride ""] when are they playing next???????????? |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 21,2006 6:11pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] They broke up. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 21,2006 6:12pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] The vocalist, Dan Pevide, is in GOREALITY now though. |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 22,2006 4:41pm - My_Dying_Bride ""] o whack, their drummer was banananananas |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 22,2006 8:33pm - fishcakes ""] http://www.myspace.com/goreality1 |
| ___________________________________ [Nov 23,2006 12:49am - Bradness ""] decent band, bald label |
| _____________________________________ [Nov 23,2006 1:47am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Totally. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 23,2006 1:54am - the_reverend ""] ha! |
| _____________________________________ [Nov 23,2006 1:56am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] I N D E E D |