![]() Malevolent Catastrophe - Rise of the Dragon Lords Structure Deck - Common $0.55 YuGiOh Starter / Structure Decks and Singles - Structure Deck Single Cards! Activate only when your opponent's monster declares an attack. Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards. ![]() Inuyasha, Volume 53: Malevolent Machinations $24.92 great disc, great price, plays wonderfully. i've loved this series for a few years now. now i'm just waiting on the studio to catch the anime up with the manga series. ![]() Warkult $11.98 After the lackluster "Will to Kill", MC still returns less than 2 years later on a new label with an album that has only one original member: Phil Fasciana. He is the glue that keeps the tenuous DM ship known as Malevolent Creation together. Rob Barrett (beginning from Retribution-era MC) didn't jump ship which was nice and they even got Dave Culross back on drums which should've been a plus. "Warkult" doesn't even match the previous album and may go down as the most bland, effortless, most hastily made Malevolent Creation album. The guitars chug endlessly along, often indecipherably and with the signature crunchy tone that peppers every MC album. Symons vocals are even more flat than before. There are much worse Death Metal vocalists to be sure, but even Jason Blachowicz was more convincing on vox. The only good thing I can say about him is that he has some degree of range, if only he'd use it more. Culross (drums), easily the best instrument on this album, is the only thing that saves this album from becoming a one star review. The songs blend too much together and there are no stand out tracks. The album concept...what, are they trying to jack the Bolt Thrower concept? Malevolent Creation is a great Death Metal band, and their persistence has paid off before with the likes of great albums like "Envenomed" and the more varied "Eternal" and the classic "Retribution". All you have to do is wait for Hoffmann to come back, get some of the original members and you'll have a worthwhile album. I can only recommend this to the MC completist, which you will inevitably become if you check out their earlier works. |
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