Burial

Burial

Artist: Extol
Label: Tooth & Nail Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 647077112627
EAN: 0647077112627
ASIN: B00000G50Q

Release Date: 1998-12-22

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Tracks:

Into Another Dimension
Celestial Completion
Burial
Renhetens Elv
Superiior
Reflections Of A Broken Soul
Justified
Embraced
Innbydelse
Tears Of Bitterness
Work Of Art
Jesus Kom Til Jorden For A Do

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Customer Reviews:

Burial owns your FACE!!!!!!.......2007-02-05

Well i'm not christian but man this band rules. I can definately fit this with my collection of Dimmu Borgir, Emporer, Old Mans's Child, or even Gorgoroth. This album is not my favorite Extol CD but it's close enough if they never releases Undeceived! Alot of reviewers are giving others static due to them saying "You only buy this cuz they're Christian", my answer is so frickin' what! I know people buying Burzum bc Varg Vikernes killed someone, or Mayhem bc they're satanic and Dead blew his brains out while the remaining members wore his skull out literally. I say shut your mouth, bc when when you buy that crap, it's only because of what they do. Personally, i'm not into Mayhem that much, I think Varg is a douche and a half. I love Extol to death, but to me Dimmu Borgir is one of the most talented Black Metal bands out there! So if a christain wants to buy Extol mainly for their beliefs, let them, same goes for a satanist for their beliefs. You can call me a poser for this(although I don't see why), but either way you can all eat my crap for talking crap!

Great Metal Album.......2006-05-09

Its great to hear something put out from the christian side of things that can actually compete versus the metal greats instead of the crap that comes from band such as Switchfoot and the like. I give this cd a thumbs up.

Great atmospheric bm! (even if the -|- isn't -l-).......2006-03-27

It's easy to pigeonhole 'christian music' as a whole in general because if you have to start from the premise that your band has a 'message' or is 'for the Lord' then its pretty much de-facto that the music isn't worth anything as its only being used as a vehicle to deliver whatever.

The great thing about early Extol (not so much now) is that it was a band that was first and foremost about the music, specifically atmospheric black metal and coming from people just so happened also believed in a creator, which while opposite the 'conventional' black metal standards, nevertheless is understandable since Scandinavian countries espoused christianity for ages. As bands like Leviathan/Xasthur (from California) or even Pyha (a 13yr old boy from South Korea) have demonstrated, black metal cannot be confined to merely location, likewise beliefs shouldn't be held any differently; I use the same analogy when discussing Burzum with people.

Of course, none of this would matter if Extol simply sucked at creating black metal, the fact is just opposite: they do it very, very well. Extol here manages to evoke the almost folk-ish sensibilities that bands like Opeth or Agalloch do when they sound their most black (My Hearse... / Pale Folklore) , but they also channel a healthy amount of really fine tremelo picking/screeching that Ulver did so well around their Bergtatt album, while coating it with the kind of clean production Satyricon has gone with as of late all the while keeping it very grim..

Vocally they don't really sound like too many bands, but come close to Ulver again, but with the tradeoff that they have two vocalists and will switch constantly throughout the album; this aspect is also extremely well done and isn't gimmicky at all as its very consistant since they don't necesarilly have a full-range of screams to go around with ala Twilight...

Overall though Burial is absolutley the best Extol album there is as it definetly is kvlt especially since the clean vocals used on every subsequent album is not present & since they are first and foremost making great atmospheric bm. Its just a shame that Extol decided to abandon this path and move on to symphonic bm, and then abandon bm altogether since this album easily stands head and toe next to any like-minded atmospheric grimness I can name.

Sick.............2006-02-16

Now that I'm a little older and know a little bit about metal, I'm definitaly appreciating this album more. I got this cd in late August of 2004 and never realy paid it much attention because I had gotten Undecieved a month before and just loved it (and I still do). I'm not too sure why I didn't like it: maybe it wasn't as heavy as their second album or maybe the production wasn't the greatest, I just do not know. That all changed almost a year later when I got The Showdown's cd and later Killswitch Engage's 2nd album. After I got those cds, I started to listen to this cd more, especialy after I got As I Lay Dying's S.A.S.,U nearth's O.S., and Becoming The Archetype's T.D. Now for the music.
This cd, like all Extol cds, is different from everything else they have done. First off, I've been told that this is black metal, which is true, sort of. If I had to put this in a specific genre, it would be in black metal but it is much more than that. It has a good bit of gothenberg (melodic death metal) in it, which is real cool. In fact, if it had even more in it, I would classify this as gothenberg such as In Flames, Dark Tranqueility, etc. Also, this has some pretty good singing vocals too. Not the emo kind but the power metal kind, though they are not realy high pitched. There is also some doom metal in there too, I think. All the songs are good especially tracks 2;6;9;10;11;and my favorite, 12. This cd is a good buy and is worth every penny. You can also check my earlier review of this cd when I was called Neo X-Deth on here.

This album IS metal........2005-03-08

I have to disagree with a lot of people reviewing this album. Some said that it sounds like the vocalist is throwing up and dying, some said it sounds too cheesy with christian lyrics, and others said this was the best album ever. They are all wrong.

This is Extol's first album, but not the first I have heard of them. The first bit of Extol I have ever heard was Undecieved, and I was weary of it at first, being a Zao fan and not knowing much melodic metal, but I definatly grew to like, and love, the piece of art. It had many memorable tracks, and was a great example of what christian, if not all death metal should be.

This album is almost the same. The vocals are a little different, but not much. There are black metal growls and screams, along with the occasional back-up singing. In some songs, such as burial, the growling vocals can sound just plain weird, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. There are many amazing melodic riffs on this album, ones that I wish I could play myself, and are some memorable tracks on here.

Overall, this album doesn't have many songs that stick out as better than the others, but instead, this is a great album to listen to the whole way through. It is nice to hear an album that fits together, instead of a jumble of assorted songs that don't even sound right together like most mainstream metal out today. If you have an extra hour on your hands, listen to this album the entire way through to get the full effect. And if you don't have an extra hour on your hands, make time.

The guitar and drum work in this album is great, and is worth listening to over and over. The influences in this album is good too, with some classic metal influences and some other death and black metal elements too. It is difficult to throw Extol into a category, but black/death metal would probably be the one. This is a great example of how good metal can be, and should definately be purchased by anyone who enjoyed Undecieved.

Overall, in my opinion, Extol is one of the only christian metal bands that sounds as good or better than most of the secular metal bands out there. There is nothing wrong with wholesome lyrics in death metal, and I actually think they work quite well together. I must say that if you enjoyed other releases by Extol, you will definately want to purchase this one. However, if you haven't bought any Extol albums yet, you should definately go for Undecieved...or maybe, just buy them all!

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