Some reviews on the "Dogface" album...
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Good ones...

 

SECTOR  II

 

Bad ones...

 

 

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The good ones...

Dogface CAPTOR

Captor are Fredrik Olofsson on Guitar, Angelo Mikai on Drums, Magnus Fasth on Vocals, Christopher Anderssson on Bass and Jonnie Carlsson on Guitar. The tracks are : 'Disconnect', 'Bleed With Me', 'All My Pain', 'Filthy', 'Lofi', 'I Told You', 'Hate Is Hate', 'Lakafak', 'So', 'Unfair', 'L.F.S'. Sitting here on a typical damp grey March day when everything seems to have gone wrong this week. I needed something extreme to listen too, so I decided to review Captor's new CD. Dogface is the title of the new Captor CD and when I say this is extreme metal, I mean it is EXTREME. Right up there with the likes of Pantera & Machine Head. With tracks such as 'Bleed With Me', 'All my Pain' and 'Hate Is Hate', what else would you expect. Dogface hits you full in the face like a ten ton hammer. Of Course, this style of Metal is very much in at the moment. So what chance do Captor stand in making it in the big league, when the competition is very high. Well I would like to think that with the release of Dogface, they stand a very good chance. There has to be some kind of comparison with the more establihed bands and most notably the vocals were very reminiscent of Pantera's Phil Anselomo, but the overall quality of Dogface makes up for that. Captor have produced in Dogface one of the best examples if this style of metal, I have heard in a long time. In short Captor have thrown down a challenge to the major labels bands, and said come on follow that. The question is can they ?. Well we will just have to wait and see as '98 rolls on. The future for Captor looks very bright indeed.

Derek Daniel

 

CAPTOR "DOGFACE" DieHard
7/10
Quite an ugly metal beast this is! Not having heard this band's first album, I admit being pretty impressed by this hideous slab of sludge-filled metal done the way it's supposed to be. Captor take the best of Pantera, who is a noticeable influence on their style, both in terms of vocals and style of riffing), but they throw in quite a lot of dissonant guitar-work that sets them apart from that band. This more dissonant guitar sound reminds me a bit of maybe recent Voi-Vod or even the more experimental fragments of recent Sepultura releases. In the end, Captor deliver a down-tuned dose of mid-tempo, chunky riffing, based upon thick guitar riffs, distorted screaming vocals and a rather repulsive attitude. This is metal done the way it's supposed to be like: no wanky heavy metal solos, no losers whining in falsetto about steel swords or other similar heavy metal rubbish. This is extreme metal that takes the best from the last 10 years or so, bastardizes it to make it more unpleasant and proudly ignores all the recent commercial or childish old-school trends that seem to be plaguing the metal scene these days. From time to time, the vocalist takes a break from screaming and switches to slightly more sinister, clean vocals that come across as maybe a deranged version of Alice In Chains, which actually works pretty well in contrast with the more aggressive style that dominates the rest of the album. It is good to see bands like Captor make sure that the metal underground remains musically as disgusting as ever.

 

"I'd anytime prefer a good copy over a bad original"
HAMMER (D)

 

"Quality Groove-Core which leaves an unequivocal print in one's face."
TERRORIZER (UK)

 

"Storming tunes and an admirable sense of brutality."
KERRANG! (UK)

 

And now for a really good one????

Sinceramente, creo que la gente de Diehard ha perdido un poco el norte, porque sus últimas ediciones me parecen casi todas mediocres y hacen pensar más en editar cosas comerciales que en sacar buenos discos.

Casi todo el material que está saliendo bajo su etiqueta últimamente se puede encuadrar dentro de algún tipo de moda y, si bien los grupos no son malos, casi todos huelen a refrito en mayor o menor medida. ¿Para cuando nuevas sensaciones como Spitink Devils, Proboscis o los Grope del principio?.

La lástima es que esto lo tenía que poner algún día y les ha tocado a Captor lidiar con mis críticas, aunque haya sido cuestión de suerte. Y repito, no están mal los grupos y Captor tampoco, pero es que no tienen ni la más mínima personalidad. Si en su anterior iban por la senda que marcaban Pantera/Machine Head (como muchos otros) ahora siguen la estela de todos los grupos que triunfan por Estados Unidos y que han pasado con sus sonidos pesados a engrosar las filas del mainstream, me refiero a Korn, Deftones y toda su secta de imitadores.

Afinación grave (no tanto como otros), guitarrazos, vocalistas que pasan del grito al susurro en dos décimas, Sludge, mucho "poder" y poca sustancia. Ya os podéis imaginar que tienen todas las virtudes y excesos de estos estilos, riffs machacones por encima y la segunda guitarra haciendo disonancias por debajo, sonido corpulento y dos tipos de temas: los que son aplastantes de principio a fin y los aplastantes con partes tranquilas y de susurro. Y ahí se acaba todo.

Cuando se ponen durillos se acercan algo al último de Sepultura, más que nada por la producción de guitarras, aunque su principal referente son Korn, a los que copian sin ningún pudor tanto las estructuras como el sonido o la apariencia vocal, pero fíjate que el principio de "Lofi" me recuerda a los dejes en plan Alice In Chains de Machine Head.

Si los discos de Korn ya no son suficientes para calmar tus ansias de sonidos crujientes no te vendrá mal darles una oída a Captor hasta que salga el siguiente clon. Son muy buenos copiando ideas de otros aunque, ya puestos, se puede ganar más pasta falsificando un Van Gogh.

Metal masivo para consumidores natos, el grupo no se lo hace mal.

Comentario por Jorge X