Against the Elements

Against the Elements Artist: Beyond the Embrace
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 039841440126
EAN: 0039841440126
ASIN: B000065V8C


Release Date: 2002-05-21

Against the Elements


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Tracks:

  1. Bastard Screams
  2. Mourning In Magenla
  3. Compass
  4. Rapture
  5. Drowning Sun
  6. Against The Elements
  7. Release
  8. The Bending Sea
  9. Embers Astray
  10. The Riddle Of Steel

Similar Items:

  1. Insect Song
  2. Buried in Oblivion
  3. The Fall of Ideals

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Awesome Metal.......2005-05-10

Beyond the Embrace has released the one with this cd. Their previous release, Insect Song, was a kind of ummm.... kind of album, with it not being great but not being bad. But, this time around they hit it right. They perfectly combine clean vocals with brutal screams and do it right all the time. I am not normally a fan of clean vocals but here it seems almost essential, like the cd wouldn't be the same without them.

As for the instrumentals, they are very good and in some songs (Rapture, Bastard Screams, Embers Astray) they are really well done, with catchy riffs and solos that will be in your head for days and days. The drumming is spot on and at some points can be downright insanley fast.

The tracks are really well done, and perfectly placed:

1- 5/5- A great 5:30 opener, with a perfect ending.
2- 3/5- Not my favorite, with mostly clean vocals, just not that great.
3- 3/5- Just one of the songs that seems to take up space....
4- 6/5- Awesome, awesome song, with a chorus that actually has meaning and emotion put into it, with lines such as "I spit and the sun, and the moon!!!!.... I'll take my pain, and walk the path, drenched with the blood of the angels!!!" Awesome, powerful stuff.
5- 4/5- Their first instrumental on the cd, very good with nice acoustic guitars with great drums.
6- 4/5- Great title track with a catchy chorus.
7- 3/5- Just another space-filler....
8- 4/5- Well constructed with long verses and a good guitar solo in the middle.
9- 15/5- The BEST song on the cd, with non-stop brutal vocals followed by an excellent melodic chorus, then comes another great verse followed by the guitar solo, which is really good, then puts it away with the repeat of the chorus. A real masterpiece of a song.

So, if you haven't already, go to the store and pick this one up, definetly worth a listen.

5 out of 5 stars completely awesome.......2005-03-13

this is the best new band ever!!!!!!!i think i pretty much know my music(i love cky,early metallica, in flames, soilwork) and this is the best music i might have ever heard. if your looking for more death metal vocals you might want to get an early in flames album like whoracle or something, but if you want awesome screaming with also just as awesome clean vocals then beyond the embrace is for you!

5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2005-01-17

Against the Elements is a great album. It's not a rip-off of either Metallica or In Flames (the greatest band in creation) It's a nice blend of both I suppose. I do, however, prefer the screaming to the more clean vocals. Luckily, more screaming is done in this album than in their watered-down second release "Insect Song". All in all, this album is worth the money. Make sure to listen to Embers Astray, which I think is the best song on the album. On the final track, The Riddle of Steel, it seems as though the drumming is too loud, but that may just be me. Buy this album. Now.

5 out of 5 stars Against the Elements+Against the Grain =Beyond the Embrace.......2004-07-20

What an incredible piece of work this album is. This is one of my favorite cd's now and I haven't even owned it for more than a week.Shawn Gallagher is an excellent singer remniscent of a young James Hettfield,Brian Fair(Shadows Fall) and Anders Friden(In Flames).An excellent display of old-school thrash and melodic Gothenburg style metal.The guitars work is breathtaking and goes in every direction of the fretboard with amazing scales, tremolo picking and hammer-ons and pull-offs that will make you wonder how six guys could create music with such perfection and magic."Drowning sun" is also one of the best instrumentals I have heard since Metallica's Orion and other songs like "Mourning in Magenta" and "Rapture" show that metal also takes alot of intelligence and talent and not just any scmuck with a guitar who knows power chords and can scream could make good music.This will definately leave you with your jaw-dropped and your eyes will open to the sound of progression as you take a journey "Against the Elements". A must have

5 out of 5 stars

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