[EDITOR’S NOTE: Yeah, we’ve already published multiple reviews of The Living Infinite, but this isn’t exactly a new one. This is what DGR cooked up when he ran his own review, originally published on our site here, through Gizoogle.net. He gizoogled the Comments on his original review, too. They’re at the bottom of this thing. I’m thinking that henceforth we’ll just do this with all of DGR’s reviews before we publish them the first time.]

(In dis post we present DGR’s take on tha freshly smoked up double-album by Sweden’s Soilwork.)

When it was initially announced dat Soilwork would be releasin a thugged-out double mixtape I be thinkin dat a pimpin’ phat chunk of our asses metal bloggin morons did a cold-ass lil collectizzle half groan all up in tha prospect of dat much Soilwork noize hittin all up in tha same time. With they last two mixtapes – Sworn To A Great Divide n’ Da Panic Broadcast – it seemed dat tha crew had become tha straight-up paragon of consistency. Yo ass could put on either disc n’ catch a gangbangin’ few pretty phat joints yo, but most either felt as if they had been freestyled entirely fo’ tha choral hook part or came off as interchangeable.

Not dat dis was some sort of wack atrocitizzle yo, but you can peep how tha fuck there would be a sense of burnout up in some quartas whenever tha group’s name was brought up – especially since you can’t fault tha band’s work ethic when it seems like a freshly smoked up Soilwork disc hits every last muthafuckin two muthafuckin years like clockwork, no matter what tha fuck chizzlez happen within tha band.

Imagine then our erection when Soilwork busted out “Spectrum Of Eternity” as tha lead-off cold lil’ woo wop from Da Livin Infinite. It was exciting. Not only did tha crew sound rejuvenated yo, but there was some seriously heavy noize goin on there – suttin’ dat previously had just been reserved ta a lil’ small-ass batch of joints like “Blind Eye Halo”. It was weird n’ refreshin as a muthafucka ta do suttin’ dat our crazy asses hadn’t done up in a incredibly long time, which was ta move a Soilwork release high up on da most thugged-out anticipated mixtapes list. Continue reading »

(We’ve previously published DGR’s review of Soilwork’s new album, but now Andy Synn and TheMadIsraeli are getting into the act, collaborating on the following review, as Andy explains in his introduction below.)

So… here’s the thing… with The Living Infinite being announced as a double-album, it seemed only right that the NCS review of the album be split between two people – mainly myself and TheMadIsraeli. But then life got in the way. Israel suffered a serious computer crash and lost a load of material, and I’ve been in the process of moving house… so we fell behind, and made slow progress… and then goddamn DGR ambushed us with his review!!!

So yes… we’re pissed… and yes, there will be a reckoning… but in the meantime we thought, why let all our hard work go to waste? TLI is a pretty big album, a pretty ambitious statement, so it’s only fair that you get a couple of different points of view.

So with that said, let me turn you over to my esteemed colleague for his take on Disc One: Continue reading »