| View Larger Image | Apocalyptic Feasting | Audio CDby Brain Drill
| List Price: | $11.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Metal Blade | | Release Date: | February 05, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 79,908th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Gorification
- Track 2: Parasites
- Track 3: Apocalyptic Feasting
- Track 4: Swine Slaughter
- Track 5: Forcefer Human Sh**
- Track 6: Consumed by the Dead
- Track 7: Revelation
- Track 8: Bury the Living
- Track 9: Depths of Darkness
- Track 10: Sadistic Abductive
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)
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Listen to their First Album, Rinse and Repeat by Stephen (NC, USA)  3 Stars
September 01, 2009
If you've heard their first album, don't expect anything new on this one. It goes without saying that these guys are all talented musicians, but it's just a shame that this is their only outlet. For the genre, the guitar tones are alright, but those very tones contribute to sloppy-sounding guitar passages... especially when these guys go straight into 5- and 6-string sweeps during their riffing passages. The music could be a lot cleaner, let's just say that... especially when guitarists like these guys are a dime-a-dozen in this genre these days. They've got the chops, just not the uniqueness that make these guys anything more than, "just another technical death metal band." I know that technical death metal isn't completely about how clean you can play, but I'm a stickler for it, personally.
Having said that, the vocalist is right on par for the genre. Very aggressive, great deep vocal scream tone. Nothing unique; just a really top-notch singer for the genre.
Now... in my opinion, the drummer and bassist are both phenominal and the stand-out musicians. You can hear the drummer all day long and his chops are just phenominal. "Machine gun" double-bass action that makes you want to do a BPM comparison to the fastest drummers you can think of... he's got deadly chops. The bassist, unfortunately, doesn't stand out in the mix at all the majority of the time. The only passages you can *really* pick him out are when the guitarists are running sweeps and taps through the upper-register of the guitar. Sometimes, I wish some of these bands would take a Mudvayne L.D. 50 approach to album production and have the bassist REALLY stand out in the mix. If you've never heard that album, I'm sure you death metal die-hards would hate it, but check it out just to hear what I'm talking about with how the bass is mixed. It would add such a unique dynamic to this music.
At this very moment, I'm listening to a demo cut off their upcoming album and - once again - it's the same mind-melting stuff, but it's the exact same formula and exact same tones. Long story short, if you're not familiar with really technical death metal, then these guys will probably blow your mind. On the other hand, if you're like me and are a musician who plays technical music and is extremely familiar with death metal and extremely technical music in general, you'll pick up the repitition from these guys really quickly... which is unfortunate. 3 stars for being technical enough to have their names known in the genre and being outstanding musicians, but not being stand-out enough for me, personally, to enjoy their album through more than half a listen most of the time.
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You are not prepared by Zach Gates (Pennsylvania, USA)  5 Stars
June 24, 2009
I'd been hearing a lot of hype around Brain Drill, specifically the drummer's speed, for a little while before I actually got the album. I sampled their Parasites EP and thought it was decent, but more of a chaotic mess than anything else. Something told me to get this one, and boy howdy.
After about 11 seconds of a drill sound (very clever), the opening track simply explodes. I'm not going to pretend that this is a varied and multi-faceted album with a wide range of songs. It opens at a million miles an hour and only gets faster from there. This is not an album to get if you like your metal with breathing room. There aren't any slow points, no breakdowns, no melodic interludes. Just well-organized chaos.
Let's look at the journey into death metal as a progression. Most realize that if your good friend listens to Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold, you don't want to give him a Deicide album for his first death metal experience. You'll probably throw Opeth or similarly slower groups at him first. That way he eases into the death vox and the general style. Once you've got someone used to Opeth's more death-y spots you might move on to, say, Cannibal Corpse's simpler outings like The Wretched Spawn.
Apocalyptic Feasting is the end of that road. This is as fast, as technical, and as brutal as it's going to get. They have a blazingly fast guitarist, a bassist that uses two-hand tapping on an 8-stringer, and a drummer that can blast-beat at over 300bpm no problem. The vocalist gets the job done with one hell of a shriek as well as a deep growl, although I don't see him as quite so superlative.
What else can be said? Get it.
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TWO WORDS: by Dean (Newport Beach CA) 5 Stars
December 26, 2008
HOLY CRIPES!!! - or is that UNHOLY CRIPES!!!
I listened to the first sample of this on Amazon and all I have to say
is that I have never heard anything faster and that "I can not wait to
see a DVD by these guys" because I want to see that drummer in action.
As a friend of mine used to say:
'This is music to murder your parents to'
But he was joking of course - and I though Cannibal Corpse were good
but I still like the 'Kill' CD!
laughingpig1@yahoo.com
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Brutally insane by Jpom short and sweet review (Florida, United States) 5 Stars
September 26, 2008
Brutally fast, insane metal. Low and high screaming. Great musicians and brilliant musical score.
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Tech-Death to the Extreme by General Zombie (the West) 5 Stars
August 16, 2008
Brain Drill are not especially innovative when it comes to tech-death: they sound like every other band of that sort, but even moreso--faster, wilder more technical etc. This, my friends, is a good thing. Others have described them as a mix of Origin and Necrophagist, a fine summation of their basic style. Still, Brain Drill are a bit more meat and potatoes than those bands, less interested in atmosphere than Origin or leadwork than Necrophagist, and are more focused on simply cranking out the wild riffs. That said, the musicianship is beyond insane, even by the incredibly high standards of tech-metal. The speed and precision of guitarwork is flatly ludicrous particularly considering the endless sweeping and tapping, and the blast beats are as fast and fierce as any you'll hear. (Yeah, Marco does use an electronic kit, but considering how produced most DM drumming is it doesn't make a practical difference when it comes to sound.) The vox are another plus, mainly because they don't foolishly try and have them keep up with the instruments as too many speedy bands do, but instead let the vox lazily lag behind. Best of all, this album is just fun. Though it's hard to put your finger on why, some tech albums are a little lifeless. Though every bit as calculated as any other tech release, "Apocalyptic Feasting" somehow manages to channel the unpretentious brutality of old-school death metal. This is a rare thing in modern DM and to combine this with such top-notch musicianship is doubly impressive. Check it out.
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