I'd forgotten all about this review, mainly because the album was so appalling. But I thought I might as well post it. If it encourages someone else to avoid this album then it will have achieved something! Mind you, if you think the album can't be as bad as I'm making out and feel tempted to check that out for yourself...well, on your head be it.
"Scandinavia has brought us the best metal over the last ten years or more. It staggers me how good is the metal coming out of Sweden alone.
So it really is a surprise to find an album that is genuinely, unremittingly pants.
I read that Andromeda appear to have done some good stuff in the past, but given how bad Manifest Tyranny is I find that hard to believe.
It starts off with Pre-emptive Strike which ought to be a hard-hitting belter to kick the album off but lacks any real oomph. Halfway through Lies 'R Us you are beginning to wonder what is going on, then you get the third track Stay Unaware. Its a terrible title. But its a truly terrible song, with probably the worst breakdown I have ever heard.
I have always said lyrics are inconsequential in metal. Yet on Manifest Tyranny it is blindingly obvious that the lyrics are dreadful, and sung in such an earnest, cringe-making way, that you cannot just gloss over them and concentrate on the music.
Technically, the playing is competent but but the more I listen to the album the more depressed I get, to the point where I can't write anymore about it.
Go listen to Opeth. Go listen to Soilwork. Go listen to Karmakanic. But don't listen to this."
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