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Make a Change... Kill Yourself - II

(One of) The best in the genre - 100%

Guilaz999, April 27th, 2013

After hearing the first release by this band, the self-titled full-length, I was somewhat disappointed that a band with such a name and statement delivered such boring and generic music. This is not the case with this release. I shall review both tracks individually, to pay full credit to this masterpiece.

Life Revisited contains some of the best DSBM music currently available. Slow piano, far in the distance introduces the track. Though many bands in this genre attempt to utilize piano in the music, many fail. This is simply the best use of the instrument, and creates a depressive, melancholic yet simultaneously grim and foreboding atmosphere. The fact that it lasts for 3 minutes is no issue, as the music itself is cold and powerful enough to be enjoyed. Slowly, the guitars fade in, droning on one note whilst varying the other. Demented screams lie with (as opposed to on top of) the music, and a treble-less bass lies just underneath, creating a fog of dark and suicidal music. Drums are skilfully used, with appropriate fills and variations of the hihat, double bass drums and snare. The musical intervals (two notes played together) vary from minor to major, first creating a saddened mood and then fortifying it with lost hope. The track progresses to include depressive minor harmonics, and the vocals take a darker, more whispered approach. Throughout, tremolo picked higher notes drearily weep from guitars panned to one ear or the other, adding further layers of depressive guitar noise. There is an acoustic interlude towards the end with ritual-esque voices singing in harmony, and the vocals shrieking above amongst them. This track is mid-paced, with little variation on the tempo throughout. A track to inspire depression, if ever there was one.

Fooling the Weak is a fast track, whose intervals are based on higher pitched notes. Drums blast beneath the depressive train that thunders through the listener's ears, fast beats that vary with the song's tempo changes. Bass again remains free of treble, and lays low in the mix, creating a deep thick mesh of depressive riffage. The track changes towards the end, slowing down and progressing into more major sounding layers of guitar noise that describe the imminent doom approaching. The track fades with Ynleborgaz still whispering his lyrical prophecy of death.

The emotion conveyed on these two tracks may be the most powerful of any metal album ever written. Utter genius composition and violently depressive and morbid lyrics create what may be one of the best metal albums ever, despite being so unknown. Get this album.

Make a Change... Kill Yourself - II - 93%

Suicidalgroup, March 7th, 2010

Considered the second 'official' release of this excellent Dane band after the full-length album "Make A Change.. Kill Yourself". II is an abnormal release representing the impendent perfection of form across two long tracks. First, it should be noted that the raw production on the album is fantastic. Ynleborgaz got himself a very interesting ambiance which seems to fall somewhat beneath the 'depressive\suicidal' category, with a high regard for a healthy soakage of nihilism. The tracks sound incredible, grim and cold, but yet bright, the perfect site for the vile guitars and vocals of Ynleborgaz.

The two tracks are highlights. The tracks "Life Revisited" opens us up with its calm guitar sounds, and after the third minute you can feel it having a slow distortion pace as Ynleborgaz's vocals start to spit their tortured words, its simply an amazing song, one of the best DBM track and wholly recommended for its melancholic natural, psychedelic melancholy, You won't survive that, but even if you did, you'd have one more. "Fooling The Weak" is another depression which picks up with a nice little aggressive parts and then a diabolic blast beat, with the guitars forming many layers of melody (sound like razors scratched across wrists) over a slowly moving rhythm over 17 and a half minutes of the track. For much of its playtime, it is highly repetitive, but this creates a melancholic nature without any flaws.

The album is produced in a very raw and frozen fashion that hoofs like a blood splattered pitchfork yerk through the cervix of purity, curling entrails loose all the ways. The bass is a semi-audible firecracker of the distortion, and the guitars here whiz like a swarm of spiteful hornets attacking a temple to lay their eggs in the saintly hosts within. If ever you wanted to spill someone's blood, this release might serve as the fitting guillotine.

This release is a well equilibrated onslaught which stands among the more interesting depressive black metal I've heard yet in this new decade. I did prefer the Xasthur material to this, the quality is plainly more well-set. II is just another in a long line of obligatory depressive black metal factory that I would highly advise you to purchase, unless of course you really suck. Not at life, though, because these albums were recorded only for those of us who do suck at life.

Stretched a bit too much - 78%

Algiz88, June 21st, 2008

HavenĀ“t heard the first album from this band so I cannot make any clever references as to if the band have changed for better or worse. What I can say is that this is one of the most beautiful black metal albums I have heard in a long, long time. The beginning which cosnists of piano is just brilliant and sets the mood for what is to come. It is nothing groundbreaking but very beautiful in all its simplicity with a melody that immediatly cathces the attention with its mix of beauty and depression. As for the black metal part there is very little to complain about. The melodies are kept very simple and are just as the pianopart extremely depressive and it is also well played which is always a bonus. In some ways it reminds me of Darkthrone-tracks like "Hans Siste Vinter" and "En Vind av Sorg" and they are, in my opinion, not the worst references to get for your music. However, the complaint would be that the riffs/melodies are not strong enough to carry songs of this length and if the second part had been cut about halfway through this would be one amazing piece of music. As the topic says it is a bit too stretched out for my taste

For the closure I can recommend this album to anyone into Darkthrone when they still played black metal but also fans of Nyktalgia, Silencer and Xasthur should find this interesting. As for myself I find it interesting enough to try and get hold of their first album.

Make a kill... change yourself - 74%

Lade, March 13th, 2008

The sophomore album from Ynleborgaz' suicide-black solo effort Make A Change... Kill Yourself, 'II', is quite okay though it doesn't reach the same level as the debut album.

While the eponymous debut album was divided is four chapters, this style seems to have been scrapped, and instead II consists of only two tracks - both of Opeth-like length.

The first track, Life Revisited, starts things off with a beautiful piano passage, to which the distorted guitar gradually fades in until the track is set ablaze in true, repeating and hypnotizing black metal.
This is good, but the downside is that it will only fascinate you for some time - and this track is way way too long. Yes, I know that the debut had songs of the same length, but they seemed to either have more variation or simply better riffs than this - either way, the track gets boring after 15-20 minutes or so. The piano does, however, come again later in the song, which is great and brings the listener back to focus - just a bit too late.

The second track, Fooling the Weak, seems quite the opposite of Life Revisited in the sense that it explodes right from the beginning with blistering guitar in repeating, depressing (yeah, they are!) riffs. This track seems kinda like a 'Chapter Five' since the repeating riffs and saddened screams seem very much akin to those heard on the debut album.

Not much to say about the lyrics, they're much like the lyrics on the debut - very much about, well, killing yourself. And even though they're barely comprehensible they suit the depressing music really well.

Overall I'll recommend this album to anyone who is on the lookout for depressing, suicidal black metal not as slow-ass as Nortt. One can't deny that Ynleborgaz has got talent, and even though the first album is better, this one is also fine.