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Ramallah - Kill a Celebrity review
Ok - the copy I have doesn't have track titles so, other than the three tracks that have been posted online, I don't know the track titles - but here
goes:
track 01 - intro track, at the end you hear the "I'd love to detonate......." verse from the title track with just Rob's voice (no music behind it)
track 02 - Kill a Celebrity - everyone should already know this one
track 03 - Fantastic song - keyboards, yet heavy - chorus takes the lyrics from "Sleep" from the EP ("just take a look at the papers....")
track 04 - Heavy song - song about terrorism - anti-government. Favorite line "the little sticker of a flag on your car means nothing"
track 05 - Up-tempo track - not really much to say about it, just pure straight up Ramallah
track 06 - Like an interlude track basically - heavy guitar riff - short
track 07 - Really fierce lyrics - great guitar riff - up-tempo - once again, pure straight up Ramallah
track 08 - Ramallah title track - was much better on the EP in my opinion
track 09 - Al-Shifa from EP with a few diff. lines - I think instead of Al-Shifa it's now "Shock & Awe" - I much prefer the "kill my mother, kill my
father" part on the EP
track 10 - Beatles cover - A Day in the Life with some slightly different lyrics - this song is absolute catchy bliss - Sinners & Saints fans are
gonna LOVE this
track 11 - basically starts out with a catchy vocal melody and then goes back to "A Day in the Life" for the last verse (awesome lyrics) - Once again,
pure catchy bliss
track 12 - Life Goes On - everyone's prob. heard this one
track 13 - If I Die Today - everyone's prob. heard this one too
track 14 - starts out with a dark keyboard melody - then gets kinda heavy yet retains the keyboards and melody - kinda like a mix of S&S and Ramallah
in one - very good
track 15 - prob. my favorite track right now - this song samples some of the most classic Blood For Blood lyrics and makes them into a whole new song
- the chorus starts out with "I don't need nobody to save me" but by the end of the song it changes to "I need somebody to save me" - musically, the
verses are chanting/tribally in the backdrop, heavy guitar, shouting Rob vox - chorus is total Sinners & Saints ear-candy - has a fantastic break-down
before the last chorus part. Everyone is gonna love this one
track 16 - starts out with keyboard - very poppy/melodic vox - guitar kicks in and we have another Sinners & Saints-ish track. This song reminds me of
something off of Motley Crue's "Generation Swine" record (seriously - that record isn't bad at all and this song sounds SO much like a song off that
record).
track 17 - this is the opening intro again (track 01) - everythings a little louder this time, lyrics are "Here I am, here I stand, I'll see you all
on the other side, the other side" with a keyboard playing in the background
track 18 - Opening riff is like a melodic Slayer "Seasons In the Abyss-ish" kinda riff - dark - has chants in the background throughout "whoa-oh-uh" -
haunting, emotional lyrics - very very catchy song - not really like Sinners & Saints - just kinda has it's own sound but it's just as catchy - best
line: "this can't be hell, it's much too cold - I'm shivering"
track 19 - sounds like someone holding down the rewind button on one of those hand held cassette recorders
track 20 - "sugar plum fairy, sugar plum fairy"
Fantastic album - I really hope this thing comes out on vinyl as well. I know I'll be buying CD/vinyl of this and believe me (not that anyone needs to
take my word on it) this thing is WELLLLL worth the price of admission. This is one of those albums you won't be able to drag out of your player for a
long long time. There's so many textures and sounds and emotions. You just wanna keep listening to it over and over. Basically it's like 5 or 6 albums
tightly wrapped into one - like a roller coaster ride, it never gets boring and when you get off all you think about it getting back on.
my rating: 200 out of 100
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Rub it in please.
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hahahah!
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HOLY FUCKING HELL!!!!
This has to be the BEST fucking album I have ever heard. I will buy this the second it comes up on the thorp site for sale.
Rob is a fucking musical genius and thats ALL there is to it!
NOTHING can touch this cd.
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at first i was kinda bummed it got out so early, but what's circulating is pretty different from the final, and really, it's so damn good, it's worth
the purchase.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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yeah i just found like 7 of the songs on limewire.
Wow.
Seriously... WOW!
I need to make some banners or somthing to fill up paypal and buy me some sheet!
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so it has 20 songs??
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BIG DUANE
but what's circulating is pretty different from the final
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I like hearing that! Somthing to look forward to. Even if it was exactly the same, I would buy it the second it comes out. Can't wait for this, as
I have said before. SOLID
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As Duane mentioned, this is far from the finished product. This record hasn't even existed out of CDR and master CD form yet. We just got the mastered
copy a couple weeks ago and let me tell you, it sounds light years better than the unmastered version, which by no means was anything to scoff at. We
promise the wait for this disc will be worth it. We're about as anxious to have a finished copy in our hands as much as you guys are.
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the wait is oh so painful
T.C.O.B.
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| Quote: |
As Duane mentioned, this is far from the finished product. This record hasn't even existed out of CDR and master CD form yet. We just got the mastered
copy a couple weeks ago and let me tell you, it sounds light years better than the unmastered version, which by no means was anything to scoff at. We
promise the wait for this disc will be worth it. We're about as anxious to have a finished copy in our hands as much as you guys are.
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I downloaded it as well, because i can't wait for it while i know the blueprints are there for the take (or
the steal, however you want to put it) That doesn't mean i'm not gonna buy this anymore, cause it's just one hell of an album. At least i got a
glimpse of what the album is gonna sound like. If it's that much better than what i heared so far, it's gonna be the album of the year for me.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by XnMeX
Rob is a fucking musical genius and thats ALL there is to it!
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well said! I cant wait for this record either, but I do hope there is more Blood for Blood & Sinners and Saints somewhere down the road!
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i don't usually concern myself with this (unless i'm the one doing it!), but the artwork is really nice, too.
also, honus, i can't comment on s&s, but i know b4b has not broken up, so there will very likely be another release from them.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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I want ANY new shit from Rob. He has never dissapointed me with the music he makes. A new S&S would be fucking excelent and I know both Lind
brothers have it in them to do another great S&S album. A new Blood for Blood album needs to be done as well. I need some new stuff with Buddah
singing. Best voice in hardcore.
I may sound like a cock ass, nut ridding fan but it's just my honest opinion so fuck it!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by XnMeX
I want ANY new shit from Rob. He has never dissapointed me with the music he makes. A new S&S would be fucking excelent and I know both Lind
brothers have it in them to do another great S&S album. A new Blood for Blood album needs to be done as well. I need some new stuff with Buddah
singing. Best voice in hardcore.
I may sound like a cock ass, nut ridding fan but it's just my honest opinion so fuck it! |
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I just got life goes on. Awsome song. I don't care if i get all them I'll just use them for my comp I'm still buying the cd.
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Cool review. 20 songs?! Can't wait!!!
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really cool to hear how much more content is on this one than but a whimper...and from what we've heard and read this sounds like its some of robs
most intense and thought provoking stuff...good deal...how about you guys get it in house two months early, that would be nice...
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"track 18 - Opening riff is like a melodic Slayer "Seasons In the Abyss-ish" kinda riff - dark - has chants in the background throughout "whoa-oh-uh"
- haunting, emotional lyrics - very very catchy song - not really like Sinners & Saints - just kinda has it's own sound but it's just as catchy - best
line: "this can't be hell, it's much too cold - I'm shivering""
That's the best song in my opinion. Sinners and Saints played it a few times but it was a lot different.
Thorp should be able to track who they sent copies of this to at this point - and then go knock the person's teeth out..... unless Thorp leaked it
deliberately Hatebreed style to create buzz. This CD, more than any CD I've ever heard on an underground level, deserves to be heard as it was
intended by Rob complete with artwork and all. I shan't download it until it is for sale on the Thorp Store.
Andy, if you got these back from the plant then I want one, motherfucker! 
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In this day and time it's next to impossible to keep stuff from leaking early. All it takes is one person from the label or one member of the band to
make a friend a copy and that's it - it's everywhere within days. I'm all for downloading, totally for it - but if the album gives you your moneys
worth you should buy the damn thing. If you feel like it's only "half good" at least buy the songs you do like from an Itunes store or something.
It's cool that this version is "undone" - it's still fantastic. Are the songs just beefed up production wise/level wise or are the songs actually
totally different in places?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BIG DUANE
at first i was kinda bummed it got out so early, but what's circulating is pretty different from the final, and really, it's so damn good, it's worth
the purchase. |
Yes - not to mention you've been getting to enjoy this slab of genuis for WEEKS now! Lucky you
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Holy shit!
Just found this.
About to go listen to it.
FYI, I always buy stuff I like and always always buy whatever Rob puts out.
The leaking thing isn't as bad as most people spin it. Just think, Ramallah could never get on regular radio rotation, so this is kind of like the
alternative to it. By the time this comes out SO MANY people will have heard it and be aware of it as opposed to if it didn't leak.
AND Thorp/Ramallah doesn't have to pay a dime for ANY of this type of promotion. Leaking the unmastered copy is genius. By the time the retail CD is
available, the net will be flooded with this version. The playing field is levelling.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ben-G
so it has 20 songs?? |
There's about 15 "full" songs, or in other words, above the 60 second mark.
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its great!
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