Comments on: Six Feet Under “Death Rituals”

By: TarDFisteR

TarDFisteR — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:23:29 +0000

Harold am I wrong or is there already a review on this page? Complete with band comparisons and everything!

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:34:04 +0000

The primary thing that was going through my head during the entirety of Death Rituals was how truly pathetic a vocalist Chris Barnes really is; this is easily the worst vocal performance I’ve ever heard on a death metal album, bar none. These vocals make Lord Worm’s tired showing on Cryptopsy’s Once Was Not sound like the dude from Pagan’s Mind by comparison. Even in the man’s “glory” days in Cannibal Corpse Barnes was never capable of anything more than a one-dimensional, unaggressive grunt, which makes it all the more amazing that he’s actually managed to get this much worse since then. Barne’s choked, indistinct barks are almost hilariously inadequate. He frequently lags behind the music’s tempo, sounds like he’s going to fucking suffocate if he doesn’t catch his breath at times, and occasionally breaks away from the growling to throw in this random garbled screech that had me pissing myself with laughter. The production keeps him mercifully buried, but even low in the mix Barnes turns in a positively embarassing performance, and it was enough to make me want to toss this album and never consider listening to it again.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:36:33 +0000

Well that review didn’t go as expected…

By: Wolfy Danger

Wolfy Danger — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:08:23 +0000

Glad to see you liked it too, I was shocked as hell when I got my promo copy.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:38:27 +0000

is it just me or does their new song Eulogy For The Undead have a main riff that was lifted straight from the song Fallen ( Angel Son) off the latest Grave album? plagiarism or coincidental?

By: thegrindingmetalhead

thegrindingmetalhead — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:22:55 +0000

This actually sounds decent

By: doctor gore

doctor gore — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:14:07 +0000

chris barnes reminds me of phillip anselmo for some reason…

By: Teufel

Teufel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:13:14 +0000

Chris Barnes still does that weird shakey thing with his voice when he does his squeals, like he’s farting and having a seizure at the same time.

By: Don Roberts

Don Roberts — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:13:21 +0000

Chris Barnes and Glen Benton have become a parodies of themselves..I’m a huge fan of what they did in the first ten years of their careers but they’ve gone downhill ever since..as Chris and Glen both push 42 years old, they both sound like they are being gagged with dirty dishrags..what amazes me is that they both stated that they don’t even like or listen to death metal!!! so why be involved in it? oh yeah..to make money to buy more weed

By: Xlip

Xlip — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:24:32 +0000

I really dig this one and “Commandments” was catchy as fuck too,
i love what they do, fuck all technical shit, when they get their
groove going it really works well!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:46:34 +0000

Bwahahaha

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:38:29 +0000

Chris Barnes flat out ignores any sort of vocal cadance. He started that with Butchered at Birth and continues it to this day. So this is SFU’s Death Magnetic.