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God Among Insects - World Wide Death

What the fuck is this shit? - 40%

MalignantTyrant, June 11th, 2012

Awful, truly awful stuff. They downtune the fuck out of their guitars in hopes to try and sound heavier than most death metal bands, but even there they failed miserably. Magus Caligula needs to stick to Dark Funeral because he apparently can no longer manage a legible, powerful roar anymore. The production is shit and it makes the super downtuned guitars sound even worse. Not only that but the album artwork is pure shit, just look at it. It looks like some 14 year old drew it in the hopes of making his conservative Christian parents piss their pants for not letting him stay out past 10 o'clock. Hell, had the band given me the money and time I could have managed something better myself.

Let's first start with the guitars themselves. They need their own paragraph because this is truly awful. It sounds like they use Drop A or A# standard tuning (maybe even lower, doubtful, though), but they can't even write a good riff so it completely defeats the purpose of tuning your guitars that low. I always hated it when certain death metal bands did this because, frankly, they sound no better than any random deathcore band. Hell, Death Cult Armageddon sounds heavier and better than this album and I'm pretty damn sure that Dimmu Borgir doesn't tune lower than D standard.

The drumming is repetitive and boring as all hell. I'll tell you what they should have done; they should have gotten Torturer (ex-Belphegor) to do the drums, he would've at least been one plus in this band's miserable attempt to make good death metal. Caligula sounds like he has laryngitis with the added bonus of having his balls clipped with clothespins. In a nutshell, he sounds fucking horrible. I don't know what the hell happened between now and his days with Hypocrisy, but he surely went downhill. I don't know why he sounds like this, either. If he can howl like he does in Dark Funeral than I don't see why he can't manage at least a halfway decent growl.

The song titles are stupid as hell. I usually don't talk about song titles in my reviews but these are bad enough where they just need mention. Now, how old are these guys? They're in their late 30s, early 40s I assume. Why in the hell do they have songs like 'Headless Nun Whore'? Even Cannibal Corpse has a bit more class to them that that. It's not that it's offensive (because then there'd be no point in listening to the genre at all) it that's its stupidly offensive. The lyrics to Priests of Sodom alone beats anything this band could ever muster up. They're trying way to damn hard and it definitely shows.

Stay away from this album. Anyone who is interested in anything involving Caligula's done should ignore this tripe and just stick to Dark Funeral and old school Hypocrisy. Poor Tobias & Lord Philipson, I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they decided to affiliate themselves with this band. Here they are in a band that's good enough already (The Project Hate) and they decide to flock with the guys who use Windows Paint to draw a cut in half zombie Jesus on a cross. I assume that it's Jesus considering this artwork is so badly drawn that I could have mistaken it for any asshole if I was completely unaware of the crucifixion. In a nutshell, this album fucking sucks.

Probably one of the worst albums in my collection - 2%

mentalendoscopy, January 29th, 2011

Holy fucking shit...this band sucks.

I'm not one for talking shit about bands, but goddamn, this album will forever haunt my memories. Oh, how I try to sleep at night while ghastly images of a crucified zombie christ with the words "God Among Insects" written lazily at the top, while the album's title, it's appellation, the lazily-titled "World Wide Death", sits at the bottom, slowly enticing me in to purchase this shit, thinking it to be a simple Deicide rip-off. Oh, how the sample machines at FYE entice us so...

I'd say that I was intrigued at first, as we often are before we realize that what we're listening to fucking sucks. I pity myself, this album stays worthwhile for a total of 3 seconds before vocalist Magus Caligula (or whatever he's calling himself now)'s fake, obviously pitchshifted howl takes a grinding turn from sounding like a disgruntled goat shitting a particularly stubborn turd, to a broken washing machine shredding your favourite Coroner shirt into smithereens.

Were these vocals tolerable by any stretch of the imagination, we would still have the dilemma concerning the shittiness of the music itself. The riffs are of that style, you know, the ones which slosh around in their piles of overly distorted filth they call a "guitar tone", daring you to sit through their pure ear-fuckery for the whole album's length? The riffs chug along to their hearts content, assuming anyone would want to listen to something as piss-poor and lazily thrown around as the possibly out-of-tune opening riff to "A Gush of Blood", or the faceless, unidentifiable opening riff to "Severe Facial Reconstruction", which slowly chugs it's way down in tempo, before picking up speed with a cheesy tremelo-picked shitter-riffer (which goes on while the oblivious drummer plays a Lars Ulrich on us all). Following this is a thrashier, pseudo-black metal section supplied by a dreadful, near inaudible guitar solo, a boring "gr1m" riff, cliche lyrics, etc.. This section goes on for nearly two minutes without doing anything remotly worth noticing outside of sitting there, mouth agape, at it's pointlessness.

The drums have a distinct "echo" to them, and are buried under feet of muddy, earthy guitars and staticy vocals. The drums sound absolutly dreadful, with overly triggered bass drums and overly echoed toms grinding away into your ears while the riffs thoughtlessly suck away at the cock of shit. The greatest example of this horrible production would be track number six, entitled "Purified in Carnage". It's a slower, sludgier song in which the guitar employ a hideous stop-start technique in the verses, exposing the shitty drums for what they are...shitty drums. The terrible production is not limited to that one song, as other songs, such as the fellow sludger in the subtly titled "Headless Nun Whore", sound like the band weren't even trying. I hope I'm right about that, too, because if this is trying, if this is their best effort...I'm astounded that they got a record deal. This is just trash.

All the songs on the album sound exactly the same, utilizing the same, slow, sludgy astmosphere with the same, out of tune, shitty guitar tone. The vocals never pick themselves up after those first 3 or 4 seconds, getting progressivly more unlistenable as this monstrocity treks on and on through your brain, terrorizing you into submission. I suggest immediate psychiactric help for those of you foolish enough to find some enjoyment out of this.

Brutal - 90%

Oelrich, October 30th, 2006

What would you get if you took the brutal riffing of Lord K Philipson ("The Project Hate MCMXMCIX"-mastermind), the rock solid drumming of Tobben Gustavson ("Vomitory") and topped it all off with the death grunts of Dark Funerals legendary vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula? One of the best old-school death metal albums of 2004, that is what you'd get!

Song titles such as "Headless Nun Whore", "Chainsawed Christians" and "Severe Facial Reconstruction" tells you everything you need to know about how this album sounds. Brutal as f**k, heavy as s**t and jammed full with riffs that just makes you want to bang your head. This album takes you back to the good old days when death metal was all about heart and muscle, not brains.

Caligulas performance on this record is really stellar. Instead of using the high-pitched black metal screeches that he employs in Dark Funeral, he uses brutal (can't seem to avoid that word!) death metal grunts that blend in perfectly with the riffs.

So, is there nothing bad about this record? Not really. Even though the songs are quite similar it never gets boring, much thanks to the fact that the album is rather short. The lyrics aren't the best ever, bu twhen it comes to DM I don't really care. A solid debut.