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For metalheads, the 2000s will no doubt go down in history as a time in which Europe dominated death metal, black metal, gothic metal, and the power metal revival/prog-metal scene while the United States dominated metalcore and screamo. But that isn't to say that American tastes and European tastes cannot intersect; there are European bands that have been influenced by metalcore, and there are American bands that have been affected the Nordic death metal/black metal scene. Winds of Plague falls into the latter category. This extreme metal band is from Southern California, and one hears a blend of American and European influences on Decimate the Weak, a 2008 release that brings together metalcore, death metal, and black metal elements. Lead singer Johnny Plague favors two different extreme vocal styles on this 36-minute CD, fluctuating between a metalcore/hardcore scream and death metal's deep, guttural "Cookie Monster" growl. Plague goes back and forth between the two a lot, and he has no problem making it sound like a metalcore singer and a death metal singer are performing a duet. Plague doesn't really get into any black metal-style vocals (that is, a sinister rasp), but the black metal influence on Decimate the Weak asserts itself in the form of blastbeats and ominous harmonies. This is an album that, for all its vicious, head-kicking ferocity, is not without nuance and not without a sense of melody. In fact, some of the guitar playing hints at old-school power metal. Decimate the Weak is mildly inconsistent, but all things considered, it is a decent example of metalcore, death metal, and black metal elements coming together under the extreme metal umbrella. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
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You want to see us fail?
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- By Convexus
- 8/17/2009 14:04:54
- Not today mother fucker! Just some of the awesome in your face lyrics that really make this band. A Cold Day In Hell starts off this album with a "Build up" method utilizing a mixture of harmonic strings and a steady "War Beat" Snare part that later goes to double bass. It then leads into Anthems of Apocalypse so smoothly you can hardly tell the track has changed. It's here that you get engulfed by the tidal wave of guitar sweeps, double bass, and raging vocals. The rest of the album does nothing less but deliver the best in melt your face off sweeps, break your eardrums bass, and make your mother mad vocals. Other notable tracks are Angels of Debauchery (Which for early WOP listeners the 3 splash cymbal crashes have been replaced with descending tom hits), One Body Too Many, and Legions which ends the album appropiately. Overall whether or not you go to a concert to hardcore dance or to fuck some bitches up in a mosh pit Winds of Plague delivers.
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this is like the deathjingle
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- By dogwitch
- 7/23/2009 21:30:20
- if your wondering what that is it a coffee jingle but hardcore metal sung . google it.. or bing it!. anyhow this was going under the radar of me. but i heard one sung and dam i was surprise.
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most brutal
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- By JOSH x HSOJ
- 3/21/2009 06:07:15
- guitar ever written in standard tuning is definitely awarded to WoP. Theyre musicians have such musical genius to be able to turn such wimpy tuning into such a massive sound of epicness..
i play guitar, and when listening to anthems of apocalypse i thought it had to at the very leats be tuned to drop c - 1 out of 2 people
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- By oLIFERUINERo
- 10/17/2008 05:33:29
- into metal stuff, along the lines of deathcore stuff, this is for you. + on the broot-o-meter, not so much hardcore, to much "destroy the world" guitar riffs, "eye bleeding" growls. and enough broot drum beats to make your mother into the virgin mary, to be refered as hardcore...
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you like hardcore music?
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- By SYRUP tha OPM
- 9/18/2008 04:05:36
- if you are really into hardcore stuff, then this band is in the top ten!
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