Slapshock 4th degree burn album download11/18/2023 The Intro is the calm before the ensuing sonic storm-the rest of the album is a whole Try Not to Headbang Challenge. Jamir Garcia on Atake the album, from Pulp‘s December 2016 issue. Justifying this is Jamir Garcia’s vocals, which are as visceral as his songwriting. The lyricism in this album is more natural, the flow of thought in the songs are more fluid hence, the message each song conveys becomes more striking. While these themes are also tackled in many of Slapshock’s songs from their previous albums, Atake so far is the finest illustration of these themes. The themes portrayed in each song are just as heavy as the music-facing and fighting personal demons (“Tukso,” “Kasalanan”) as well as relational (betrayal, as in “Lason,” “Sinungaling,” and “Magdusa Ka” and impending loss, as in “Huling Gabi”) and sociopolitical ones (“Circle”), and keeping one’s hope, faith, and fighting spirit alive in such trying times (“Atake,” “Bandera”). We all owe this to beefy, punchy guitars (thanks to Lean Ansing’s new seven-string guitar do we expect Jerry Basco to switch to one anytime soon? Or he already did?) and pounding drum beats, both reinforced by rich, solid bass lines. Atake, so far, is their lowest and heaviest. Slapshock gets lower, heavier, and hence, better after every album-one reason why the band has thrived in the ever-expanding and evolving music industry for two decades and counting. It has a wider point of view and refined assault methods, as you can hear and feel in this album. Nevertheless, regardless of the moods each Slapshock song evokes, the spunk and aggression that have always driven their music are still very much alive and kicking (ass) in Atake, only that it has matured through the years. (You may ask me, but it’d take me months if you want me to translate line per line, not to mention check with Jamir if the translations are correct.) 16. Foreign fans will have to ask their Filipino friends for translations of the Tagalog songs. 17.Īlso, unlike their albums from 4 th Degree Burn to Novena, all of which having mostly English lineups that include only one Tagalog song or two, Atake features ten cathartic, soaring tracks, nine of them in Tagalog and only one in English (with the exception of the Intro, which is in Japanese). Unlike their tenth-year anniversary album Recollection (2007), which was composed of their greatest hits from 1999 to 2006 plus a new track, “Sigaw,” Atake features all-new tracks. (With the exception of the title track, “Atake,” and “Luha”-both were pre-released on Spotify.) All those months of waiting between the first listen and the next one when I finally got to snag a copy of the album was freaking worth it. I first heard the album in Slapshock’s listening party on this year’s Valentine’s Day, which officially marks the metal band’s twentieth year. (Detail from the official album poster.) 19. Slapshock is (L-R): Chi Evora, drummer Lee Nadela, bassist Jamir Garcia, vocalist Lean Ansing and Jerry Basco, guitarists. If you haven’t yet, brace yourself for this year, or at least what remains of it- Atake, Slapshock’s twentieth anniversary album, is, true to its name, a full-force attack. You had a taste of tough love- Cariño Brutal-in 2009 and kept coming back for more, so much you took all the bullets from Kinse Kalibre in 2011 and stayed up through the witching hours with Night Owls in 2014. Project 11-41 in 2002 got you on your knees and saying your Novena in 2004, and left you speechless with Silence in 2006. In 1999, you suffered a 4 th Degree Burn, and had a hell of a Headtrip in 2001. WARNING: Long, long, long post ahead! What a way to start this review blog. Anyway, proceed at your own risk.
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