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    ░█▒█         Artist ■ Negative Reaction                             █▒█░
   ░ █▒█          Album ■ Under the Ancient Penalty                     █▒█ ░
    ░█░█           Year ■ 2006                                          █░█░
     █░█   Release Date ■ 2012-03-18                                    █░█
     █░█          Genre ■ Metal                                         █░█
     █ █          Label ■ This Dark Reign Recordings                    █ █
     █░█         Source ■ CD                                            █░█
     █ █           Type ■ Album                                         █ █
     █░█        Quality ■ VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo                    █░█
     █ █                                                                █ █
     █ █                                                                █ █
     █ █   An album such as Negative Reaction's 'Under The Ancient      █ █
     █ █   Penalty' should be intensely familiar to any                 █ █
     █ █   self-respecting metalhead. As soon as you pop this CD in,    █ █
     █ █   your brain had better be immediately flooded with archaic    █ █
     █ █   groove that you understand on an utterly primordial level.   █ █
     █ █   I dare any metalhead to not immediately trance out while     █ █
     █ █   listening to this album, because I'd go as far as to say it  █ █
     █ █   really isn't possible. It's so there, so engaging, so        █ █
     █ █   naturally flowing that it really strikes where all metal     █ █
     █ █   albums should.                                               █ █
     █ █   Negative Reaction play extremely heavy and groove-laden      █ █
     █ █   stoner/doom metal with cues taken from artists such as       █ █
     █ █   Bongzilla, Sleep and Black Sabbath. Add a tinge of           █ █
     █ █   hopeless, depressing atmosphere, and you have a recipe for   █ █
     █ █   an utterly entrancing piece of music. Perhaps the best       █ █
     █ █   equation would be one part Black Sabbath's self titled       █ █
     █ █   debut with two parts Sleep's 'Jerusalem', packing a          █ █
     █ █   definite drone from the latter, but the occasional bluesy    █ █
     █ █   break of the former. The music is extremely simple and       █ █
     █ █   repetitive and incredibly, crushingly heavy on tracks like   █ █
     █ █   'Empty', which genuinely engulf the listener in the          █ █
     █ █   drugged-out suffering that this band embodies.               █ █
     █ █   Perhaps what sets Negative Reaction apart from other         █ █
     █ █   stoner/doom bands is the extremely dark atmosphere it        █ █
     █ █   employs. Apart from merely being more depressing than other  █ █
     █ █   artists, Negative Reaction have a genuine vibe of despair    █ █
     █ █   and desolation surrounding their music, with riffs drifting  █ █
     █ █   into empty canvas propped up only by skeletal drumming.      █ █
     █ █   However, the sparseness of the compositions only increases   █ █
     █ █   the brutality of the riffing even more, and when those       █ █
     █ █   enormous bass grooves swing back into action, the listener   █ █
     █ █   knows it with every bone of their body. This is an entirely  █ █
     █ █   traditional and guitar-driven record, bringing clearly to    █ █
     █ █   mind what some of the first listeners of Black Sabbath must  █ █
     █ █   have thought upon hearing the opening chords of their        █ █
     █ █   eponymous song. There's a decisive aura of misery set deep   █ █
     █ █   into the music of this album that simply must be heard to    █ █
     █ █   be believed.                                                 █ █
     █ █   Unfortunately, Negative Reaction is hampered by one          █ █
     █ █   significant flaw: the vocals. In this case, they are a       █ █
     █ █   blend between hoarse screaming and semi-clean vocals, and    █ █
     █ █   at no angle do they work very well. With a hoarse serpent's  █ █
     █ █   rasp, this might be the perfect stoner/doom album, but as    █ █
     █ █   such, the vocals, though thankfully not overbearing,         █ █
     █ █   significantly detract from the power of the album as a       █ █
     █ █   whole. Luckily, the compositions are generally mostly        █ █
     █ █   instrumental (think newer Isis' de-emphasized                █ █
     █ █   vocal-to-instrumental ratios), somewhat minimizing the       █ █
     █ █   damage this factor does. Apart from this issue, 'Under The   █ █
     █ █   Ancient Penalty' is fantastically crushing and miserable on  █ █
     █ █   every level. Certainly a great choice for stoner/doom fans,  █ █
     █ █   or anyone else who likes to wallow in their own bitterness   █ █
     █ █   from time to time.                                           █ █
     █ █                                                                █ █
     █░█                                                                █░█
     █ █   1.  Lost                                              5:49   █ █
     █ █   2.  Loathing                                          4:48   █ █
     █ █   3.  Pain                                              5:45   █ █
     █ █   4.  Empty                                             5:18   █ █
     █ █   5.  Suffer                                            5:46   █ █
     █ █   6.  Sorrow                                            5:55   █ █
     █ █   7.  Linger                                            6:14   █ █
     █ █   8.  Alone                                             9:15   █ █
     █ █                                                        48:50   █ █
     █░█░                                                               █░█░
     █░█░                                                               █░█░
     █░█▒                     + G R a v e W i s h +                     █░█▒
    ░█▒█▒                         - est.2000 -                         ░█▒█▒
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