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Carnivore-2 albums

Carnivore 1985 (320 kbps)

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This album is from an era where the Soviet Union was still alive, the outbreak of war seemed inevitable, military technology had advanced to where the world could be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust at the push of a button within 15 minutes, and movies like The Day After gripped the nation. It was during this time that Carnivore focused on that reality and composed jeremiads of a bleak and grim future where cannibal barbarians clad in leather, fur and chains ruled a radioactive wasteland while survivors huddled underground like moles, where God commits suicide and condemns mankind to utter damnation. Nothing like it could ever quite be created again.

The music represents their themes very well. If the metal influences of thrash were taken directly from Black Sabbath, it would sound quite a bit like Carnivore. It's not pre-death metal like Kreator or Slayer, but it's nevertheless very bold, brutal and intimidating. There's strong passages of Sabbath-like doom throughout the songs that paint utterly bleak landscapes of a nuclear wasteland inbetween the furious outbreaks of deep-toned, warlike thrash. Lord Petrus's vocals on this album are among my favorite vocals in all of metal, as they're clear and bold yet sound like violent barbarian battle cries from a hulking nuclear warrior, especially with the faint echo effect occasionally used.

Almost all the songs on this album are outstanding. Armageddon is a solid headbanger that's a direct tribute to the horrors of nuclear war. Male Supremacy is amazing in its capacity to go from insane ultra-masculine savage barbarity to a soft love song, and then right back to insanity again. Thermonuclear Warrior is an insane song of genocidal violence with some very intense riffs and drum work. World War III and IV is an epic and brutal, and a bit over the top masterpiece of a nuclear exchange and a brutal, unrestricted warfare that eventually ends up in the extinction of man and the complete planetary destruction of the Earth.

I've had this in my possession for years, and it never gets old. It's an essential thrash classic that often goes overlooked.

Track list:
1. Predator 04:33
2. Carnivore 03:22
3. Male Supremacy 07:31
4. Armageddon 04:14
5. Legion Of Doom 03:31
6. God Is Dead 04:13
7. Thermonuclear Warrior 05:38
8. World Wars III & IV 10:13
Total playing time 43:15

Retaliation 1987 (320 kbps)

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This was the album where Peter Steele & Co. ditched the silly Road Warrior image and started really LAYING THE SMACK DOWN. After a silly and pointless puking intro that gets points deleted and me skipping it, the onslaught starts hard with "Angry Neurotic Catholics", a feral thrash blaster that will have the Gothlings who worship at Peter's huge boots aghast at the intense aggression and anger on display here. "S.M.D." continues in that vein with insanely vicious lyrics directed at any and all who would call him a freak for his image, lifestyle, music--in fact, this entire album has some of the most ugly, misanthropic lyrics I've ever read. Knowing Peter, he wrote them to get a rise out of folks, which he most certainly did. But back in those days, he wasn't as refined a lyricist as he is with Type O Negative, and as a result the lyrics come off as much simpler and even more direct than anything he's ever written with Type O.

"Ground Zero Brooklyn" has a very catchy chorus, and "Race War" is just...yeesh! Truly angry and racist lyrics that really capture the mentality of the average white supremacist in a nutshell: "Don't call me your brother, cuz I ain't your fuckin' brother/We fell from different cunt/And your skin, your skin's an ungly color!" The lurching, doomy riffs on the verses ram these hateful lyrics home with brute force, and the chorus actually drifts into a more dreamy and sad feel. Ironic, considering the lyrical subject, but it also makes one wonder how racist he actually is, as the feeling on the chorus as he sings "Race war, we're going to a race war/Hate war, we're going to a hate war" makes him seem sad and reluctant to actually go through with the war in question. "Jesus Hitler" has some amusing lyrics as well as a solid alternation of thrashing and slower riffs, and their cover of "Manic Depression" is actually pretty decent, although delivered in a considerably more nettled and irreverent manner than Mr. Hendrix probably imagined it.

The musicianship is strong throughout the album, with Marc Piovanetti cranking out some blistering leads to flavor the riffs and Louie Beateaux raging behind the kit like a madman. Peter's bass tone is the same as it is on the Type O albums; a wall of chorused fuzz that doesn't require a second guitarist at all to hold up the low end during solos, and his vocals are mostly delivered in an angry ranting/screaming style that suits the music perfectly, far from the smooth Goth-influenced bass vocals that the future would see coming from him. This is essential, and if you know not to take the lyrics all that seriously, you will indeed dig this album. Crossover at its heaviest was this band, and I'm glad Peter has gotten all that rage and bile out of his system, because who knows what he'd be like these days if he hadn't!

Track list:
1. Jack Daniels And Pizza 00:55
2. Angry Neurotic Catholics 02:48
3. S.M.D. 02:27
4. Ground Zero Brooklyn 04:40
5. Race War 05:56
6. Inner Conflict 05:03
7. Jesus Hitler 05:17
8. Technophobia 03:56
9. Manic Depression (Jimi Hendrix Cover) 03:07
10. U.S.A. for U.S.A. 03:21
11. Five Billion Dead 03:02
12. Sex and Violence 03:51
Total playing time 44:23

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