On You Will Never Be One of Us, Nails are simply on another level and, though others will have a tough time reaching it, they should all still aspire to it.
Possessing more jagged edges than a shed full of rusty chainsaws, You Will Never Be One Of Us is 21 minutes of frenzied, guttural hardcore of the highest calibre.
Either it sounds like 35 years of extreme metal and fast hardcore boiled down into one molten sea of fury, or you straight up don’t get it and are doomed to exist on the other side of the glass. See? This us-and-them rhetoric feels more fun the more you listen to this album.
Loathing permeates the band's third album like xenophobia at a Trump rally. Emulating Black Flag gone grindcore, You Will Never Be One of Us beats brief thrashers "Parasite," "Made to Make You Fail," "Violence Is Forever" senseless with merciless precision.
Esse álbum é tão maravilhoso e explora tantas coisas boas, incrível, honesto, e simplesmente espetacular. Não tenho palavras para descreverEsse álbum é tão maravilhoso e explora tantas coisas boas, incrível, honesto, e simplesmente espetacular. Não tenho palavras para descrever essa grandiosidade musical.…Expand
This grind core is sooo good. The most suitable vocal for this genre I ever listen. That fat sound... Oh. Nails done a great job in theThis grind core is sooo good. The most suitable vocal for this genre I ever listen. That fat sound... Oh. Nails done a great job in the studio.
People who doesn't like metal music please don't vote. No wonder that music is called extreme. This music requires some training. It's like snowboarding. People who know how to ride say how it's cool. But you try to take the snowboard and ride you immediately hate this board…Expand
You will hear fast beats, one minute tracks, and a lot of the raw energy you crave. The live shows can only be imagined as wild and insane.You will hear fast beats, one minute tracks, and a lot of the raw energy you crave. The live shows can only be imagined as wild and insane. Bad: The familiar riffs heard over and over again in metal are here as well as the played out vocal monotone roar. Melody isn't an enemy in metal and the energy would be even higher with it. The albums originality score could definitely use some more melody and harmony. Good: There is something special here and any metal/hardcore fan will be pleased. It has the speed and insanity a hardcore fan appreciates. Speed and guitar riffs change in second intervals, reminiscent of the Locust. It does have melody despite what I mentioned earlier and can sometimes be a great highlight to the album. Good listen, different enough to note, and will leave you with the feeling that you can do anything.…Expand
Before the actual review, for those who easily got amused by the high score (now it's 93/100) and are criticizing this album:
1st - This isBefore the actual review, for those who easily got amused by the high score (now it's 93/100) and are criticizing this album:
1st - This is a brutal heavy black metal album, NAILS always put together short albums (about 15 ~ 20 mins long) for a brutal experience.
2nd - Criticizing a black metal record because of it's aggression and brutality is like criticizing a rock record because of the guitar solos and the love in the lyricism, those are simply the characteristics of the genre and not the cons of a record, review it by what it tries to deliver and if it delivers or not, don't review it because you simply dislike the genre.
Now for the review itself: You Will Never Be One of Us again, delivers all the brutality that you should expect from a NAILS album, but I do see them going forward with this record right here, they've kept those dark themes as there was no experimentation on the lyrics (as you should expect), but they've delivered a longer album with an awesome finish, an eight minutes long cut that goes to different patterns, with peaks and breaks, but keeping the vocals static.
Is it worth 93/100? Nop. They're experimenting, they're trying to evolve and that's a very positive aspect of this thing right here, but I don't see them going further than one cut of 8 minutes, maybe if the whole record were more dynamic, longer and with more experimentation on their sound, then yes it should be a 93/100, but I'm sticking with a 80/100 with this one.
And again, guys, open your mind, there isn't only heavy metal bands like Metallica out there, there's a whole gamma of great metal bands to explore like Deafheaven and Behemoth, just be more open minded pls.…Expand
Nails is just another 10s grind/entombedcore band that stays between Converge and Magrudergrind plus some Slayer and macho core typo riffs,Nails is just another 10s grind/entombedcore band that stays between Converge and Magrudergrind plus some Slayer and macho core typo riffs, this could be the band a wanker like Phil Anselmo would like to have if he met a Boss-HM2 pedal back in the days. To be honest this is not a bad album, in fact it's a decent one, but unless you're a Terror fan and wanna get the real deal go back to the classics: Slayer, Entombed, Dismbember, Nasum. This band wont get aggressive as Converge, bad ass as Magrudergrind or classy like Black Breath.…Expand
Awful album, every song sounds the same a talent-less bashing of drums and whining of guitars. Music for stupid people. Avoid at all costs ifAwful album, every song sounds the same a talent-less bashing of drums and whining of guitars. Music for stupid people. Avoid at all costs if you actually enjoy music and don't want to hear disjointed, painful sounds.…Expand
