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Disturbing Foresights - De-Grunged
posted by: Bayonetwork on 24 April 2008
Deity Down Records
It’s been fifteen years since this album was recorded, that’s quite the time span, even Chinese Democracy can see the daylight in less than fifteen years. This raises a few questions, is anybody eagerly waiting for this album to come out? For some nostalgic reasons perhaps? Please answer these questions if you got an answer to them. I for one never heard of this band, probably because I’m a young Belgian kid.
Although De-Grunged was recorded back in 1993, it was recently remastered. You don't have to worry about lesser sound quality. The first song Work It Out has it's H20 or 7 Seconds influences, maybe even some Dog Eat Dog at certain points, however this song is in no way a blueprint for the rest of the record. There’s a lot of crossover stuff going on, punk, hardcore and metal all blended into twelve songs. The song Genepharm may be the most calm one, thus serving as a resting point, but I have to say that this album is hardly as aggressive or up-tempo as other crossover stuff, DRI just to name one.
You could say that Disturbing Foresights differentiates that way and keep a more unique sound. It’s quite melodic and could appeal to a lot of people. There isn’t a bad song on the record, but no real highlights either. If you look that description up in a dictionary, you would find mediocre, but I wouldn’t go that far. It still sounds rather fresh for being fifteen years old. But for me the question remains, does this record really justify a release after all this time? Although there could be a broad target group for this kind of music, I feel like there are better bands out there nowadays. Then again, this might be a cultclassic, so please, people who have been around longer fill me in on this one.
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| Gerrit |
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Posted on 24.04.2008 (10:57) |
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| laatst de eerste 7 inch voor een euro uit een bak gehaald. niet heel slecht maar ook niet veel bijzonders. Wel leuk omdat er twee bekenden in zaten/zitten. |
| David |
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Posted on 24.04.2008 (10:59) |
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Hahaha, ik wist niet dat die plaat al zo lang geleden was opgenomen. Nu snap ik waarom ik het zo nineties vond klinken!  |
| Theo DI |
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Posted on 26.04.2008 (09:36) |
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| Mooi dat dit materiaal eindelijk nog uitkomt. in het juiste tijdsperk geplaatst is het echt een leuke plaat! |
| Deity1 |
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Posted on 27.04.2008 (10:11) |
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| Die eerste 7 inch (leuk plaatje overigens) laat een compleet andere Disturbing Foresights-sound horen dan het materiaal op De-Grunged. Je moet trouwens de groeten hebben van Cor Gerrit :-) |
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