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Suicide Watch - Global Warning


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=Staff's pick

Flesh And Blood
The Truth About Lies*
The Devil Rides Out
By The Time You Read This… I Will Be Dead*
The Despair Of Another Dawn
Global Warning*
Death In Triplicate
Virus (Inside Us)
In The Mouth Of Madness
Inexorable
The Broken Back Of Democracy
Tomorrow We Rule The World*
Night Winter Death*


Genre Thrash Metal
Rid
Vocals
Tracks 13
Simon
Guitar
Runningtime 37 Min.
-
Guitar
Label Mausoleum Records
Ian
Bass
Release 25 April 2005
Ade
Drums
Country England
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Keyboards
Similar artists Exodus, Napalm Death

Suicide Watch lies somewhere between old school 80s thrash and more modern 90s hard core. All this spiced with some politically concerned lyrics. The guys have been around for some while, in different UK-based extreme metal bands, like Burnside and Stampin' Ground. But this is their debut album together as Suicide Watch.

First time I put on the record I just heard a row of unorganised noise. But the songs actually got more character already on the second attempt. You find a lot of great riffs, but there are too few of them who ends up in really great compositions. The screaming kind of song might not be the best I've heard in the genre, but it works. The production is so simple that it actually turns out really perfect. It sounds raw and true, like a garage band demo. Nothing is put in place to please sensible ears. Actually, the whole album was recorded 'live in studio with no digital trickery', mixed and mastered in four days.

The concluding two tracks, Tomorrow We Rule The World and Night Winter Death stand for a considerable quality upgrading. But they come too late to save the whole album. If true brutality, and raw joy of playing are more important for you than great songs, Global Warning will work. If not, it will be a parenthesis in your history of music exploring. But I like the band's attitude, not to bow for any temptations to make a broad break-through, but to keep to the unpolished roots. "We're not prepared to whore ourselves for the music industry. We just want to enjoy ourselves playing the music we enjoy.", as they state on their homepage. That's a good start, anyway.

Production
Vocals
Compositions

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5

6

 
Summary



6 chalices of 10 - David

Related links:

www.suicidewatch.co.uk