Day of Mourning

Came in a good time. Sounds great and looks beautiful.An amazing and needed album for the genre, top tier for that person into extreme music

Shipping was horrible, the album was bent around all four corners sadly. Luckily though, the actuall vinyl record is fine.

Imagine Anvils flying at 200 mph in a synchronized technical dance. There's the music. Heavy as F, tough as F, Hardcore as F. Listen for all the intricacies. real good stuff here. Drummer is insane nuts and the riffs are smart and well written heavy hardcore style.

Despised Icon are back again with another blistering release. This is a 4.5 for me, but amazon does not allow that rating. Anyway best guitar sound yet, and the band has added a few sonic 808 bass boom parts that create a killer atmosphere. Best tracks: title track, mvp, black lungs, made of glass, diva of disgust. Missing are the amazing pig squeals. I really loved thoses vocals, they were brutal and fun. Some of the blasts are grindcore fast. Like mvp-it gets to grindcore type speed-it's freakin fast as hell. All we have come to expect from the band is here. If you dislike deathcore or this type of genre stay far away from this. Last song sleepless is a waste though. the band spends 35 min on the cd pummeling the listener song after song and than ends w/the weakest song the band has ever written. Clean guitar intro, than has screaming, it's like a deathcore ballad that is quite literally a bore. Anyway the bonus dvd is a making of cd, w/interviews, concert footage and biographies. Killer packaging.

I picked up this cd the day I found out about it. As soon as I slowly turned up the volume knob with anticipation I was just like YES. This cd brings you back to when The Ills of Modern Man picked you up (minus the reeps lol), got you to flex and feel overcame with violence and intensity that made you want to wreck everything around you, and wouldn't let you sit down. This album hits super hard. Deathcore at it's finest, it's super sad that they are no longer together, this is a must for death metal fans of all sorts. Period.Alex P. is a nasty drummer. Check him out on youtube, he is no joke. DI forever son.

Let me tell you, I thought Despised Icon's last CD ('The Ills of Modern Man') was brutal but beyond a shadow of a doubt they have topped themselves w/ their latest masterpiece 'Day of Mourning!' For those who say deathcore metal isn't true death metal or whatever well they need to shut up & listen to this disc because if you ever had any doubts about that genre of music this CD should silence those doubts!! This is some straight up heavy stuff & much more intense than anything I have heard from Despised Icon yet maybe from any group in this genre of music! Buy this & blast it..this will make your body explode!!!

AAAAHHH! Is all I could think of when the first song Les Temps Changent came blasting through my ears. It sent me into an uncontrollable frenzy of flailing and head banging.The leads that Jarrin pound out in Eulogy and Black Lungs are amazing. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best deathcore album of 2009. Also, if you do have the chance to see them live DONT MISS IT or you definitely will be sorry.

Despised Icon is back. I really enjoy listening to this album. I can't say much about this album, but what I do have to say about this album is that this album shreds. I think this is one of the best death metal albums of 2009. Go see them live if you can.

Overall happy with this item. Sleeve had some damage

Man kann eins sagen: DI haben Esprit! Sie haben einen Sound, der weder typisch für Deathcore noch abgedroschen klingt. Das zeigen sie auch wunderbar in den ersten sechs Songs. Les Temps Changent ist ein französisches Deatchcorelied, welches wirklich Spaß macht. Lied 3, MVP, hat ein einminütiges Breakdown in sehr langsamer Geschwindigkeit, das hat man soweit noch nicht gehört. Es geht den Leuten von DI also mehr um Ausdruck als um Sound. Leider ist es bei den Liedern 7-9 nicht mehr so der Fall. Dort zeigen sie genau die identischen Schemata wie Track 5 und 6, was einem dann eher auf den gut gelungen letzten Song 10 bringt, der nicht wie 5-9 die Vocalists abwechelnd und bei bestimmten Stellen zur Verdeutlichung der Textpassage doppelt singen lässt, sondern nur einen. Der benutzt dann nur high pitched screames, obwohl er auch tief growlen kann. Weiß man das, zeigt sich in diesem Song, dass sie andere Wege gehen wollten als nur auf die Fresse hauen, wie es andere Bands machen.Die DVD verdient weniger als 2 Sterne. Absolut mies. Ein bisschen die Kamera auf Studioaufnahmen. Bei der Passage mit den Vocals hat man die aufgenommenen Vocals abgespielt, man hört also die Vocalists nicht einmal selber singen. Da frage ich mich, wie viel Technik da drin hineingemixt wurde... Es ist nur ein live song drauf, "A fractured hand" aus dem Voralbum. Schade! Da hätte man wesentlich mehr machen können.Alles in allem 4 Sterne, weil immerhin 6 von 10 Tracks gut hörbar sind (es ist mein Empfinden, sicherlich finden andere auch die weiteren Tracks okay, ich habe sie als eintönig erachtet) und DI ihre eigene Schiene fahren.DVD 1 Stern. Die ist den Preis nicht wert. Holt Euch lieber die einfache CD, wenn sich dadurch Geld sparen lässt.

デスコアバンド、Despised Iconの4th。カナダらしいテクニカルなデスコアとして活動してきた彼らだが、今作では随分とデスメタルな仕上がりに。個人的には当たりの作品だったけど、デスコアとして彼らを支えてきたファンはどう思うのかね。リスナーにも、デスコアからの脱却が求められているのかも。ちなみに、ブイブイ言ってません。これじゃあ、ヴォーカルが二人居る意味無いよなあ。声質も似てるし。