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One of my very favourite metal albums. Not a weak moment on it, and such a crushing sound combined with a keen (if often somewhat buried) sense of melody and structure. Interesting to see if there's any kind of consensus, or more than a handful of votes.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Heartwork	4
Buried Dreams	2
Death Certificate	2
No Love Lost	2
Carnal Forge	1
Arbiet Macht Fleish	1
Embodiment	0
Blind Bleeding the Blind	0
Doctrinal Expletives	0
This Mortal Coil	0

― chap, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link

I haven't decided what I'll vote for - I think it's between Buried Dreams, Embodiment and Death Certificate.

― chap, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link

I really must get the remaster of this.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link

title track.

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Friday, 13 March 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link

oh no, i will have to listen to this to figure it out. what torture.

― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean, has there ever been a better "sellout" metal record?

― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link

it is carnal forge

― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2009 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Gotta go with "Buried Dreams".

― A. Begrand, Friday, 13 March 2009 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Title track. I saw this tour. They were dicks, but they shredded.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 13 March 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean, has there ever been a better "sellout" metal record?
Immortal's "At the Heart of Winter" k thx.
Never was a big fan of Heartwork, but I've always had trouble with this cleaned up version of death metal (Hypocrisy etc), mostly because their melodic sensibilities don't at all click with mine. Also, I guess I want more controlled chaos in my metal.

― Øystein, Friday, 13 March 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Err, will dig this up and give it a listen next week, since I don't really remember most of these songs anymore.

― Øystein, Friday, 13 March 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I decided on Death Certificate.

― chap, Friday, 13 March 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link

This reminded me of Carcass' great remix of "Isobel" by Bjork.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 13 March 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link

my gut reaction was 'death certificate'.

― cb, Friday, 13 March 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

excuse me, nobody has said "no love lost" yet

get with the fucken program ppl

― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Arbiet Macht Fleish

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link

where's roxy?!?

― LOLBJ (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link

connecticut last i heard

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Dark reflections, of dark foul light!

― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

listening to this now, why did they move to having one vocalist instead of two :/

― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

four years pass...

is there a thread somewhere on ilx whose premise is 'imagine that THIS is a sellout record'?

― j., Wednesday, 19 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link

nine months pass...

Doctrinal Expletives is a very underrated track. Some of the heaviest passages on the record.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 9 January 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link

Then it bursts into this weird, almost jaunty guitar melody.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 9 January 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

Carnal Forge fuckin rules.

straddles the line between heavy and uber catchy

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link

one of the riffs sounds like "I'll Be Watching You" by the Police

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link

listening to this now, why did they move to having one vocalist instead of two :/

― ¯ ϖ ¯ (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, October 7, 2009 4:34 PM bookmarkflaglink

Steer's savage vocals wouldn't have fit real well with this material

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 August 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link

straddles the line between heavy and uber catchy

This is all of Heartwork to be fair.

― chap, Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link

Totally! That was an important balance for me at the time i got it as i was just dipping toes in the extreme metal water

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 August 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link

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