| Munla / Harvest |
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| Album: | Harvest | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Munla | Added: | Apr 2004 | |
| Label: | None | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-05-31 | Pull Date: | 2004-08-02 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Jul 18 | Jun 20 | Jun 13 | Jun 6 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 15, 2004: | Les Chevaux De Frise Track 4 | 4. | Jun 02, 2004: | Brownian Motion Track 1 | |
| 2. | Jun 13, 2004: | rust belt Track 1 | 5. | Jun 02, 2004: | press and release Track 2 | |
| 3. | Jun 09, 2004: | Brownian Motion Track 4 | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2004-07-18 | ||
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This is three kids from Redwood City (who on their website appear to be still in their teens). The name means something in Hawai’ian but their website is down when I again. These 4 tracks show a lot of talent & some interesting mixes of ultra-low & murky death metal (think Incantation, Mortician minus the sampling) a hint of black metal, grind and some doom parts and hints at black metal & grind (mostly in track #1, though). Overall, they’re a little confusing as they play really awesome doom parts as well as odd (but not annoying) tech-metal parts. For a first effort, the band sounds pretty tight & the quality of the production is solid but not polished (but your humble reviewer still listens to speed metal demos from 1984). (((1))) Starts off all ambient then leads into a slow, industrial-laden, Godflesh-meets Hellchild thing leading to rhytmic death metal with some pretty solid riffing. Mostly mid-paced death metal ((2)) Thudding & straight-ahead fast, slow & doomy death metal. Something (and a little jazzy noodling 1:46-to the end) ((((3)))) Sounds like Hellchild flirting with Crytopsy and Godflesh. Weird as fuck vocals but the odd tones & crazy time-changes make it worthwhile. Killer Sleep/Corrupted styled über-doom ending, too. (((4))) THICK sounding doom/death with more twisted vocals. Lots of thudding & a bit of groove. Sounds like Corrupted mixed with Incantation? Lots of odd but interesting experimentation going here. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Track 1 | 3. | Track 3 | |||
| 2. | Track 2 | 4. | Track 4 |