{"id":103153,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103153"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:04:55","slug":"album-review-six-feet-under-killing-for-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-six-feet-under-killing-for-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX FEET UNDER – Killing For Revenge (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIX FEET UNDER
Killing For Revenge<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMetal Blade (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Six Feet Under just cannot catch a break and over the span of their career they have become somewhat the Nickelback of the death metal genre. Every time the guys release an album I almost feel sorry for them because there always seems to be a monumental backlash awaiting them. Some of the criticism was certainly justifiable when the Tampa, Florida-based band churned out their last outing, the 2020 abomination Nightmares Of The Decomposed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It would seem that chief growler Chris Barnes, formerly of Cannibal Corpse as we all know, learned his lesson from last time and returns to those formulaic grunts n\u2019 growls, while behind him guitarists Jack Owen and Ray Suhy put in a decent shift alongside drumming warlock Marco Pitruzzella and bassist Jeff Hughell. Sadly, it\u2019s still pretty standard stuff, even more so when you hear some of the quality stuff regularly emerging from the pits of the genre.<\/p>\n

At their boggiest the clan traipse, rather painfully, through \u2018Neanderthal\u2019 and the equally laborious \u2018Hostility Against Mankind\u2019. Barnes is a law unto himself throughout, and not in a good way as he eventually puffs and wheezes to the final quarter. It\u2019s a strange performance again from the veteran, and more noticeable due to his more energetic run on the first batch of thrashier numbers, but as with so many Six Feet Under albums, the goofy vocals and dreadful lyrics are everywhere. Match these details with another extraordinarily bad album cover and you are not left with much else to hold on to. Okay, so \u2018Spoils Of War\u2019 features a decent groove bolstered further by the slick bass, and the blandly titled \u2018Judgement Day\u2019 boasts some good riffs, but the fact that the fun cover of Nazareth\u2019s \u2018Hair Of The Dog\u2019 is probably the best cut says it all.<\/p>\n

After several listens to Killing For Revenge<\/em> I\u2019ve tried my hardest to extract as many positives as possible, but they are all too intermittent. Sure, I\u2019m glad Jack Owens stuck around (I\u2019m not sure he is!) and as stated the beginning of the album is okay, but the fact that Barnes can\u2019t seem to keep up as the album unravels suggests it was all done in one despairing take. \u2018Fit For Carnage\u2019 is boisterous enough, as is opener \u2018Know-Nothing Ingrate\u2019, but the lyrics, well, they aren\u2019t even high school quality. Again, this is meat n\u2019 potatoes cookie-cutter death metal that I struggle to sympathise with let alone enjoy, and I\u2019m sure most will agree with such sentiments.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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