With The Dead

General | Nov 2015

Reviews

jessica rylan
Reviewed 2015-11-02
Debut album from a group of old men, including Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening of Electric Wizard, and singer Lee Dorrian ex-Cathedral and Napalm Death. While hardcore and speed metal are perhaps a young man’s game, With the Dead prove that doom only improves with age. It’s as if all the happiness, joy, and optimism has been drained out of all three of them, and they’re just left with a miserable acquiescence to the rottenness of the world. The sound is super heavy, simple, plodding, a constant enveloping mud bath. Terrific!

FCC Clean (I think). Faves: 4, 1, 6

1. Slow, certain, no messing around. Tough.
2. Sort of 6/8, vocals sound really angry, aggressive song.
3. Slower, more melodic, has some really interesting “slow down” sections
4. “Living with the dead”. Super repetitive, bludgeoning, gets quiet but then gets loud again with a kind of Shepard Tone (endless descending glissando) of howling
5. Mid-tempo, has some kind of whistely flanging sound
6. Very slow, pained, stumbling and dragging.

Recent airplay

Living With The Dead
Home on the RangeJan 06, 2016
Living With The Dead
Home on the RangeDec 10, 2015
Living With The Dead
Home on the RangeDec 02, 2015
The Cross
Home on the RangeNov 18, 2015
Screams From My Own Grave
What was scene?Nov 12, 2015
Crown Of Burning Stars
What was scene?Nov 05, 2015

Charting

2015-11-08 — 2016-01-10 Loud
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 10 1
Dec 13 1
Dec 6 1
Nov 22 1
Nov 15 1

Track listing

1. Crown Of Burning Stars
2. The Cross
3. Nephthys
4. Living With The Dead
5. I Am Your Virus
6. Screams From My Own Grave