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UTTERLY PATHETIC...

Death Metal90 | 12/09/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I almost died when I heard this album. As a huge fan of the first 2 Mercyless albums, "Abject Offerings" and "Coloured Funeral", I was not expecting them to change directions musically. What Max Otero has done here is pretty much what that other dumbbell named Max has done. What the heck is it with frontmen named Max?? Why do they start out awesome and then go lame? This CD is a complete failure. No technical riffs, no intense drumming no song writing no arpeggios nothing! Mercyless have become just another B.S. Ozzfest, Korn, Slipknot mallcore band. Such a disappointment! If you have listened to "Abject offerings" then you know what I am talking about. Its a shame to see such a great band regress into complete talentless musical crud. Mercyless need to wake up and quit wasting their time and talent creating garbage alternative poser metal and return to their Technical Death roots.

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Nothing special

deztruktor | 06/16/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"well, in '92 this French band released a slab of Floridian style brutal death called "Abject Offerings", which was a fair contender to bands such as Obituary and Malevolent Creation. Not something you'd expect from the French, no? haha.. okay bad joke... Anyway, several years later they put out this sophomore effort with a change in style. The only other reviewer mentioned newer Kreator as a comparion which isn't far off. (I dont know what that guy blabbling about AC/DC and Def Leppard was talking about...)I'd say take "Cause For Conflict"-era Kreator and add Pantera's grooves and you kind-of have an idea of what this release is about. Yet, it really turns out to be nothing all that special to me considering its very modern metal approach. I think Pantera fans would find this enjoyable though. But for me there's far better out there. And, considering the fact that on their third release "Sure To Be Pure" in 2001, they turned to a completely horrible form of nu-metal, I definitely have no use for this band..."

Very different to Coloured Funeral

Sacha Varma | London | 10/12/2000

(3 out of 5 stars)

"CF was a pretty extreme death metal album; Cold is a total transformation: progressive power metal of a very European mould. If it weren't for the same logo I would never have said they were the same band.I'm not sure what I would compare it to... probably recent Kreator stuff is the closest I've heard, though this is much more complex, interspersed with lots of wistful musician-rock (I'm hearing bongos as we speak). Personally, I find it dissatisfying; it's not good enough to be up there with Dream Theater and not heavy enough to really mark out its own territory."