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Bradley Zorgdrager reviews The Black Dahlia Murder‘s ninth studio album `Verminous’ out today on Metal Blade Records.
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Buy this album: metalblade.com/tbdm/
Shoutout albums:
Carnosus - Dogma of the Deceased
Satanath Records
carnosus.bandcamp.com/album/d...
Benighted - Obscene Repressed
Season of Mist
benighted.bandcamp.com/
Caustic Wound - Death Posture
Profound Lore
www.profoundlorerecords.com/p...
200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition
Maggot Stomp
200stabwounds-maggotstomp.ban...
Fange Pudeur
Throatruiner Records
fange.bandcamp.com/album/pudeur
Aborted - La Grande Mascarade
Century Media
goremageddon.be/
Abysmal Dawn - Phlogenesis
Season of Mist
abysmaldawn.bandcamp.com/albu...
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The new album is sick. Trevor really stepped up the atmosphere with his vocals.
Alan’s foot and cymbal work is hypnotizing and the guitars are a double assault of metal shrapnel.
Agree on all fronts!
The black dahlia murder for me has always been this constant force of what goes bump in the night, to their horror inspired music videos to their crazy if you call it “normal” guy appearance on stage... They constantly evolve through every album release since their Debut with unhallowed. And with that *Every* Album has held the 3 syllable title, which for me is amazing, they don’t stray far from their formula since arguably when Nocturnal released with new hailing Guitarist *Knight* is when they found their “Sound”...
Deflorate releases, for me it was a continuation on the sound of nocturnal as well as death and murder... others hated it... which is fine more for me...
Ritual releases, it painted a world of decimation and pirate zombie skeletons ( for me ) and everyone thought that there is no way that they could top it...
enter Abysmal, saw the day that *Lucas* decided to step down, and let *Cassidey* be on the throne....
this album from the art cover to the last track and the lost tracks ( if you bought the limited edition with mini disc ) was flawless in the execution, I thought that the production guy kinda fucked them a bit as it was lacking in comparison to their previous efforts, however Abysmal wrought forth Vlad the dragon to engulf every living soul... by now all the Fvckers that despised them before *Love* them...
Nightbringers, and the loss of *Knight* This album brought forth a new fire set off under their asses with new Guitarist *Ellis*
This guy just wakes the dead and Keeps their sound alive with flare... this was a fantastic album and my first time ( was trying to see them for over a decade live ) to see them live in Germany with Cannibal Corpse!
Verminous, they continue their Reign in Death and Murder, with Black Metal influences scurried ( you know cause of the rodents and shit ) about, they continue to be inspired by Horror and their peers they’ve looked up to.
This album brings the Filth, the Nasty, the grotesque, the dark, the grittiness back into their fold that *Unhallowed* and *Miasma* had. For me this album brings hope that there is a better place for metal, that there will be new bands that will/are inspired by the black dahlia murder, that it will just keep getting heavier and nastier... Thank You Trevor and the rest of The Black Dahlia Murder for making a kickass album!!!
This is one of the most intense comments ever. Respect. Thanks for watching.
Think you forgot about Everblack, which was the first with Alan Cassidy not Abysmal.
Everblack is probably my favourite of the Cassidy albums but that's not saying much. Not sure if it's cause Brian now shares more of the writing duties moving them away from that classic sound or because Alan can play 1000bpm a lot of the songs are too fast and sing have time to breathe, I just don't love modern day TBDM as much as the Nocturnal/Deflorate era.
I’ve never understood people’s displeasure with Deflorate. Super high on the list of BDM albums for me
@@Hideousspawn13 Eyes of Thousand is one of my favourites all round and I Will Return is the best closer on any of their albums.
dude, you should do Black tongue's Nadir, if you haven't already.
Just went back and listened to that record. Good shit.
I literally listened to black dahlia about a week aga and now they’re one of my favourites
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Welcome!
it happens. lol happened to me in 2003
Welcome to the family bud.
Dahlia slays! Thanks for the shoutout also!! 🤘
My pleasure! Thanks for watching and the cool album.
Y'all rule! Cheers!
@@BangerTV
Nothing like a Black Dahlia solo to fill my heart with power and splendor. Nice review Bradley, great to hear from ya!
Thanks for watching and the kind words!
Thanks for watching man
Nice review Brad. Your comparison to Chuck Billy and Tom Araya in the thrash influenced vocals was an interesting bit. It is something we will look for as we review the album ourselves. Also like how you pointed out songs like Sunless Empire having a less is more approach because that is totally how we felt in our first impression as well. The fact of this also being the year of the rat was a cool thing to mention as well and it would be interesting to know if that was coincidence or not. Keep up the good work our fellow Canadian metalhead!
I got my Verminous preorder a few weeks ago and I have to say this album was more of a slow burn than Nightbringers was. Now that I’ve listened to it a bunch I absolutely love it, but I think you’re right about listening to this in different frames of mind. The layers woven throughout this make this album more rewarding with every listen!
Totally. When I first went through it, I wasn't instantly grabbed like I usually am. Now a couple weeks in the songs are growing more and more on me.
@@chiefwalkingwater1763 Weeks? The album has been out for 2 days pal.
I f**king love this album. It's actually gotten better with time and it's among my favorites from BDM. Unlike others I was sold immediately on the musical changes and didn't need time for it to sit with me, which usually isn't the case for me. The saddest part is this will be the last BDM album. We'll never hear Trevor's amazing vocal deliveries, stage presence and those amazing, amazing lyrics. He's left a chasm that can never be filled, and one that was wholly unique to him and the bands music and image. It's been a little over a week and I still can't stop thinking of him RIP, Trevor.
Not the last, NEW TBDM NEXT YEAR!
When I got my pre-order a little early and gave it a spin, I immediately knew this album was going to be polarizing. Nightbringers was just a beautiful TBDM album that was everything the band stood for, and this one took a different direction, taking a lot more risks. It's an album you have to dig into and fully digest to "get it". Man, it's a rollercoaster for sure and I think it's going to age like wine.
Thanks for watching. Agreed, it's already grown on me a lot from first listen, so perhaps it will continue to climb.
@@AggressiveTendencies Dude! You should do a review of Black tongue's nadir, if you haven't heard it, I really think you will dig it.
Risks pay off sometimes!
"Ia, ia" is chanting not from H.P. Lovecraft's Call Of Cthulhu, but from Shadows Over Innsmouth:
"Yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let well enough alone. Wudn't bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside-that is, withaout they got pryin'. All in the band of the faithful-Order o' Dagon-an' the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an' Father Dagon what we all come from onct~Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn~"
And Anaal Nathrakh is from Excalibur. None of these bands be coming up with they own incantations anymore, damn shame...
Thanks for the insight and for watching!
Nicely done sir
It’s Sumerian. It’s appeared in a lot of occult books I used to own. It’s in a lot of evocations used to summon Sumerian/Babylonian demons
@@IamTheDeathMachine lesser key of Solomon stuff?
Book of knowledge, thanks for sharing
Stoked to see Banger and Brad are back at it!
Great review as always, Bradley!
I'll be honest. In the past I've always just cherry picked songs when it comes to TBDM. Was never a huge fan personally but fully understood their talent along the way. This album is different. This will probably go down as my 2020 metal album of the year. I don't foresee anyone else outdoing it. It's melodic, moody, blisteringly heavy. The mix/production is top tier and the album is just so so good in every category. It checks literally every box for me. Brandon Ellis is a god. Current favorite track: Sunless Empire.
Very sick that you've arrived in TBDM fandom!
The huge metal core elements in the album are a big letdown. You can't ignore it. Even the vocals are purposely weak in some segments making the dreadful metal core influence so apparent.
Brandon is arguably more "talented," but I think Ryan has much more artistic presence. Many guitarists think his solos are actually harder to replicate when compared to Brandons
R.I.P Trevor. One of the greatest idols to strive towards on our lyrics and music which wouldn't exist without his influence. Sad we never had the balls to tell him and show our gratitude. Rest easy bro I hope you're finally at peace.
Thanks for the 200 Stab Wounds shoutout! That was some good stuff!
Great review! I share the same sentiments and over time it’s growing on me. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much! I'll do my best,
Great review again, Brad! Quite enjoying this album. Hope you’re keeping well man, stay safe. 🤘🏼😀🤘🏼
Thank you so much! I am and hope the same for you!
This is the best review I've seen you do Brad, always great but this was one particularly great. I'm going to need to spend more time with Verminous. I've only given it the one spin. Despite it being a very solid album with some great songs I think I was misled by my own expectations. Nightbringers is the best album of TBDM's career for me, and it is an absolute faceripper start to finish. I applaud them for going a different way on Verminous, but I was hoping for more of the same. I think time will be kind to the direction they've decided to go on this one and I'll come to appreciate it more, but for me, the immediate impression is, if I'm putting on a TBDM album, I'm immediately reaching for Nightbringers and I was hoping that this would topple it.
WOW! Thank you so much for the kind words. I always question if I'm any good anymore or if I've lost it.
It definitely grows on you. As of right now it hasn't toppled Nightbringers for me as my favourite album with this lineup, but given how much it has grown on me from when I first heard it to now, we'll see!
you can't accurately judge an album from only 1 listen....
Great review as always, Brad. TBDM is always a good listen, and always a fun time live. Also, nice shout outs. That Caustic Wound album is nasty indeed. That should be the soundtrack for the apocalypse.
Appreciate the kind words! Agreed, Caustic Wound is FILTH.
Great Review Brad. I have been checking out a lot of bands during my time off and I have been really digging trivium. Anyways, keep up the good work my metal brother.
Great review! Can’t wait to pick this up along with new Abysmal Dawn! That Carnosus is on the list too.
You won’t be disappointed with their new albums...
Fantastic review there! The Black Dahlia Murder being one of my favourite bands I hadto watch this🤙love your opinions and overall score!🤟
love your writing Brad
Brad rocks \m/ I enjoy your take on things. You have a gift for this!
Love the vibe this album gives off. Pretty wicked stuff, keep it up banger!
Thanks friend!
Great to get a Banger review of this! BDM are held to such a high standard. Was worried you were gonna overly critique this based on the numerous influences but that's what makes the record. I'd rather see evolution from a band than the same old stuff. The detail in this album and the variety in the riffs, solos and vocals is immense. Atmosphere is so dark and dreary it's great. Really cool observations on the songs and comparisons. Great job and great to see Banger TV still chugging. Shout outs are awesome as well!
Thanks so much! I was happy to get to review it. Agreed, good on them for evolving and doing it smart.
Great review as always 🤘
Thank you for the review Brad, I love Abysmal Dawn and Black Dahlia always deliver I really like the songs from Verminous that were released already so I’m psyched to hear the album, stay safe 🤘
Thanks for watching! Both rad bands.
Thanks for that Abysmal Dawn recommend , holy hell
My pleasure! Thank you for watching.
Hey Brad, I see a Job For A Cowboy poster behind you but rarely ever hear anything about them on this channel. Do y'all only do reviews of new album releases or would you consider doing a review on some of their older work. Obviously they stopped making new music years ago, but I would love to hear your take on their library.
They say that every time Brad does the macarena hands as he talks, an Epiphone Flying V gets it's strings.
I am glad to bless these shred machines.
@@AggressiveTendencies if only it worked on organic guitars. Been trying to tune my hemp rope, but the distortion doesn't sound vegan enough.
Nononononononono stop stringing the Epi's!!!!!!!
I've always enjoyed the progression of BDM's sound all the way from Unhallowed to now and Brandon Ellis is a phenomenal guitarist! I also have a special love for BDM as they stop in my hometown on every album tour and Trevor is one of the most down to earth people I've met.
Excellent review, and thanks for the recommendations. Abysmal Dawn is really solid.
Thank you for the kind words, and you're welcome. Agreed!
Great stuff!
Good review man!
Awesome review Brad!
Verminous will take a couple of listens for sure...
Hey Brad, nice hearing from you! I agree with a lot of what you said, especially about Ellis' and Strnads work here. Except I only listened to it twice and I loved the progressive parts from the start. Phylogenesis is also great.
Check out Oranssi Pazuzu, it's crazy as fuck.
Also, Bismarck have a new Album out, Norwegian Doom.
Thanks for the video!
Love this album. Can't wait for my box set to show up.
Great review Bradley
Listened to the record twice today now....I love it. And it made me revisit Nightbringer and the other predecessors, too. Such a good band!
Agreed! Thanks for watching.
Awesome review! I definitely think I'll have to give it a couple more listens as well for it to grow on me. Just felt like it was missing a little something.
Cool review on on one of my fav hometown Detroit bands. I need to see these guys live. Just haven't had the chance yet. I really dig this record. A good guitar record with cool vibes.
They're amazing live. I've been lucky enough to catch them live more than a dozen times since way back on Unhallowed. Tons of energy!
Nightbringers was something special. This seems really solid
Agreed. Did you see my review of that one?
Sure did! Loved it. I’d probably lean towards 4.5/5 since it’s one from 2017 that still gets frequent spins. It felt like such an improvement from their previous few records.
Truly is
Ripped To Shreds - Luan also dropped yesterday!!
Awsome, great review
Just listened to this...did not disappoint. Love it!
What an awesome day today was for metal music.... so many good releases
Notice every album has a color themed: Nocturnal Blue, Everblack Violet, Abysmal orange ish, Nightbringers Red and now Verminous Green toxic ish. Love it. The cover pops up. Wonder what color is next.
My Cannibal Corpse 'Kill' t-shirt in the back on a poster! sweet \m/.
Yet another TBDM in my collection :D, 'Verminous' is very good imo also Benighted - 'Obscene Repressed' You mentioned kicks ass!
It definitely needed to grow on me. Now that it has I love it. Great review
Same here! I'm glad I didn't review it right when I first heard it. I liked it, didn't love it. Now it's much closer to the latter.
I listened to it once . And like ok . Not my favorite it was just ok
Hopefully you will review the new Aversions Crown album coming in June.
We'll see!
Ignignokt im sure he will, but right now we’re ( him too ) still wandering the depths of the vermin, insect, filled laden walls of the sewers of hell. Slowly turning into slime drenched wereworms
I'm a new fan of Black Dahlia Murder and I really like this new album. Great review!
Check out Unhallowed through Verminous... if you got some weed, or have just a couple drinks.... you’ll feel, and hear the progression of each album... do it now since you can’t really do anything else but stay at home 🤷🏻♂️
Is there anything like this on the band "obsequiae"?
Album really caught me off guard. Not huge into Dahlia's earlier stuff, and the earlier the worse for me personally not being into metalcore at all. However I thought I'd try this one out, and basically all the core is gone, and Ellis has made this band a monster instrumentally! Great surprise!
They were never metalcore, dude. Especially from nocturnal forward
I've never gotten into this band in the slightest (no hate - just not my thing), but I always enjoy your videos, Bradley! Also, Sect either have a new record out, or have one coming.
That's a high compliment. I love when people aren't fans of the band but still dig the review.
Following you now as asked. 🤘🤘
Love this band, always have, always will! Also that atypical fact blew my mind
I love this new album. The last one was a bit predictable TBDM stuff but this one is full of surprises.
I respectfully disagree on the last one (watch my review! Haha), but we are on the same team RE loving the new album.
E2070Swn Nightbringers was not by any stretch of the means predictable... none of there albums were for that matter..
Great review, Brad. I finally listened to Verminous... I was kind of scared to be disappointed?😅
I don't know why I've become like this hahaha
After my first listened (20 min ago) I liked it very much, but I wanted to look for a banger review and like I said I was not disappointed.
Well enough rambling, thanks for the work you guys are doing! Cheers!
Yo Brad is back 😈🤘😈🤘😈 great reviews as always
Great review. This may be the time I give this band a serious listen.
Do it! Thanks for the kind words.
Those posters are fucking awesome!
Dude review 200 stab wounds if u can. Theyre dope!
Mark Van Doorne yes!!!
Great Video hope your safe and well thanks for the bands to check out aswell
This one came out of nowhere for me. Nice surprise. Listening to this one on a nice pair of headphones. Probably in ears.
Damn did you stay away from everything? I started actually googling everything once November hit and started to worry a bit... cause they always released every 2 years...found that they were trying something different by releasing after 3 and toured a bit longer for Nightbringers...
DonutsRYummy I listen to so many bands and I do have every BDM on my phone for when I’m at the gym so when I listen to a band several times per week I tend to not think about them too much once I get home. I want something new and maybe not even Metal. With that said there are so many bands out there I’m listening to 10 or more new releases per week so it’s easy to let things fall through the cracks. The same thing almost happened with Allegaeon but I did find the studio updates a month before release. Now I’m so disappointed in myself I probably won’t miss another release date for at least 6 months. The last Amon Amarth also hit me out of nowhere.
Great thorough review. I’m gonna go listen to the new BDM now.
Thanks homie! Let us know what you think once you've listened.
Appreciate you som Munch. Take CARE! Thanks, BraD!
God Brad your hair looks so SWEET
The Caustic Wound album is amazing! Definitely gonna check this one out within a week. Keep hanging in there, fam! ✌️❤️♾
Yesy yes lad! Love the Aborted and Abysmal Dawn love. On it
Cheers mate!
You had a perfect run my brother!
Nice review, it's gonna be my first Black Dahlia Murder album. Let's check.
Some great references you used here. I heard this album last night and while I like The Black Dahlia Murder I have always felt they write some great songs on subpar albums. BUT THIS whole album is fuckin killer. I kept thinking how much more Intricate the riffs were and how much overall great songwriting is on this album. Probably their overall best album. Some of their greatest songs were on weak albums, In Hell is Where She Waits for Me, I Will Return, Receipt.
Black dahlia murder is my shit & definitely love the fact that there willing to experiment with different types of metal witch keeps me coming back for more because of there ability to be unpredictable AWESOME AS ALWAYS !!!!! P.S. was looking forward to your code orange review but I guess we’ll get that later !!!!!!!
Ia Ia! is part of Lovecraft's chant for summoning or praising ancient entities like Cthulhu, Yog Sothoth, or Shub Niggurath.
also that Caustic Wound disc is fucking GRUESOME. loved it.
The most incredible thing about Black Dahlia is that despite all their lineup changes, they keep *improving*. They replace amazing musicians with even more amazing musicians and are always messing around with new sounds.
Ryan Knight was an educated musician who wrote a lot of cool and complex music. If you listen to Brandon Ellis talk, that dude is like music Rain Man. He's insane. They traded up on drummers too, somehow, because Shannon was a force, when Alan joined.
They traded up on the Bass as well Bart found Max and Bart still writes music for them...
Fav' 2020 Death Metal album for the moment!
It's like the Melodic Death Metal version of "EI EI" by nelly.
I was watching the review and thinker "Man that Decibek Magazine show whit Converge, Pig Destroyer, Municipal Waste and Repulsion looks awesome"
ahh good memories...my first time for repulsion, two guitars, it ruled. bummer the beer and metal fest got cancelled, like v2.0 of this show
@@ThereIsNoPlan412 It ain't cancelled - it's postponed. Just hold on!
Oh baby, was it ever!
Anyway, great review as always
does anyone know who the artist was who drew that cannibal corpse poster??? It looks like John Romita Jr. artwork.
Andres Vazquez The artist who this that Cannibal Corpse poster is the man who has drew most of their artwork. That is from “Kill” artwork Vince Locke is the man.
I give both Dahlia and Abysmal Dawn a 9/10 on these new albums. Listening to Benighted and then Aborted now. Already a fan of them guys 👍
Black Dahlia has always been one of my favorites, every album has gotten better in different ways. Nocturnal or Deflorate will always be my favorites but damn, they kill it every single time.
Man that 200 Stab Wounds album.
The Caustic Wounds album is pure gold.
They JFAC Ruination poster is awesome! I want that so bad.
Brad is the best!
Nice posters you have
New tbdm sounds basically like Arsis with Trevor on vocals at this point. Aaaand it's not a bad thing
Definite Arsis comparisons, but I didn't want to go there because it's too obvious.
So eloquent! Thank you for this review!
Thank you for the kind word!
Sunless empire has probably one of the best guitar solos I've heard in a long time
Obsessed with that solo...It is truly amazing!
The hype for this was justified. Gotta keep listening to it before I rank it in their discography. And what about that JFAC Ruination poster back there? Think they're ever coming back??
they posted to FB for the first time in a while recently, i think they are likely working on new material
Would be cool!
In an interview with Brian Slagel Friday Jonny Davy said they have “theoretically” already written a new album. When asked Brian said we could expect a new album or at least news of a new album, “soon.”
Good stuff
Perfect accurate review
My favorite band of all time!
Hell yeah! Thanks for watching.
RIP Trevor
Nice
zorgdrager rules!
I have that exact same Cannibal Corpse poster in my room!
I have the long sleeve of that poster...