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The String Quartet Tribute to Slayer: The Evil You |
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Published: 2003-06-10 |
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 Yeah, it's good but different
They chose 9 great songs (and an "inspired by Slayer" original composition), highlighting completely different styles that Slayer has gone through over the years, from Die by the Sword (perhaps the worst song on this album, but at least as good as the original) to Dead Skin Mask (as disturbing and enjoyable as the original). The new song, inspired by Slayer, would actually probably be a great song to hear be performed by the band (Amazon lists it as "Windless Death" and "Mindless Death", it is actually the latter).
Some of the tracks do not work out so well, okay, they are bad (postmortem, south of heaven, die by the sword), but the album is well worth having anyways: the stuff is eery and lends itself extremely well to bowed string playing. Expendable Youth and War Ensemble sound absolutely creepy, though some of the tempo changes that sound great on guitar leave you kind of wanting them to change the song around to fit a more classical sounding composition.
This is what Dracula would have been bumping back in the 1500s if he had a CD player.
SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Different but still very cool. It's a must have for a true slayer fan.
 Interesting
As a Slayer fan seeing this CD for the first time, my first thought was that this was a long overdue idea. I wondered at the trouble of translating the sometimes repetitive nature of metal riffing to bowed strings, but otherwise it seems a rather natural transition. So, with much excitement I purchased it and slapped it into my CD player at the first opportunity. This excitement quickly changed to puzzlement as I listened to what turned out to be an unsatisfying realization of the idea.
There are ten tracks on this CD, all but one being surprisingly faithful covers of the Slayer versions (the one original composition being very much in the style of Slayer). While every rendition had its moments that worked just right, the rest of the time it seemed confused, lost and simply not going anywhere. Not to mention sometimes slightly out-of-tune (I suppose what works with a pair of heavily distorted guitars doesn't necessarily work with four acoustic stringed instruments). Frankly, the repetitious metal riffage during the verse parts turned out to be just as much of a problem that I suspected they might be. This was not at all helped by the violin following Araya's vocal lines. Altogether, it left me wishing they had done a bit more rearranging, perhaps cutting the number of verse repetitions.
There were a few standouts, the foremost being "Die By the Sword", which somehow worked all the way through better than any of the others. Other notable tracks include "Mindless Death" (the original composition) and "Mandatory Suicide". I had high hopes for "Dead Skin Mask", as well, but that one didn't quite work as well - probably in part due to the lightly distorted electric cello, which seemed out of place amongst the more natural sounding instruments.
All in all, it seemed an honest, but underdeveloped effort. Perhaps with a bit of arranging or with a group larger than a quartet, this would have been perfect. As it is, I must admit that I will be listening to it again. Maybe as I listen to it longer I'll warm up to it. As it stands, I agree with the previous reviewer in that it is probably a must for any die-hard Slayer fan, but don't expect perfection.
Thrash fan
Heheheh this recod is pretty fun...almost somthing u must have if u are a slayer fan!
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