Divine Rapture
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(Independent) 

Another Pennsylvania release is what we have here. Three songs of raw, aggressive death metal that I couldn't sink my teeth into. When it comes to the music, there's some good stuff on here. These guys can play. But, as soon as the vocals kick in, that's when I get turned off. Typical death metal vocals mixed with some black metal style vocals. That's something I'll never understand. I mean, there's some people out there who have an aggressive vocal style and I'm not saying it's wrong to have that style. But, when you more or less growl like you're trying to keep a throat full of vomit down, there's just no entertainment there for me. Be aggressive, but, touch up the vocals a bit. You know, when I was thirteen, I went head first through a window and the glass did a wonderful little number on my vocal chords. I'll be the first to tell you that I can't sing to save my life. But, I could still do the vocal style that's found on this release and some of you out there would actually say it's good. Sorry, it just doesn't cut it for me. You learned to play and you do that rather well...now learn how to sing...and that's the key word here...SING! http://www.divinerapture.net

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