 | Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World
4.2
excellent
| Ranking: #34 for 2000 | |
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| 4.5 superb | tom6 | November 19th 10 |
Jeff Loomis is a technically impeccable guitarist, among the very best soloists and rhythm players in metal - his counterpart Warrel Dane is perhaps one of the most distinctive and skilled metal vocalists ever, whether you like his style or not. What unites the two is a passion for melancholic, grandiose drama which they are more than qualified to express through heavy, downtuned grooves and neoclassical solos combined with a tortured, idiosyncratic baritone. If you share that passion, you'll find many thrills in Dead Heart in a Dead World. I know I do.
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| 4.0 excellent | NietzschesMoustache | February 2nd 22 |
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal // 2000 // Best: "We Disintegrate"
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| 3.5 great | EasterInTheBatcave | June 7th 16 |
A good, solid metal record, with wonderful performances from all the band, especially Warrel Dane on vocals and Jeff Loomis on seven-string guitar. "We Disintegrate" is especially fantastic. There are some bad lyrics ("Inside Four Walls"), and there are a couple of over-the-top corny numbers ("Insignificant", "Believe in Nothing")-- and "Engines of Hate" goes on too long-- but those are the only major flaws with the record. The production is great, there are some amazing guitar solos ("The River Dragon Has Come," the aforementioned "We Disintegrate"), and it is a mostly consistent listen.
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| 5.0 classic | BRAman22 | June 7th 14 |
To me these guys are kind of like a down tuned, heavier, version of Dream Theater. They are extremely melodic as well. This is a pretty damn great album, all of the songs are really good.
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| 4.5 superb | MaidenUFO | September 15th 12 |
This is the best album of Nevermore... My favorite songs here are "Believe in nothing", "The heart collector" , "Narcosynthesis", "Engines of hate", "We disintegrate" and "The dragon has come"...The guitars on this album are from another planet (just check the riffs in "Narcosynthesis" or "engines of hate"). Jeff Loomis makes an impressive guitar performance here.
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| 4.5 superb | Fernando Alves STAFF | March 15th 12 |
Definitely one of their best albums. Extremely solid songwriting with a top level production from Andy Sneap.
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| 3.5 great | Xenorazr | February 25th 11 |
Nevemore solidify their progressive traits more here than they did on Dreaming Neon Black which, when played during the stellar middle act, shows them still hitting well and hard. What leaves the album feeling less rewarding overall, however, is one or two fairly short stretches of less commanding tracks. In addition, we never see anything hit as strongly as the best points off their 1999 release. No worry, this is far from an underwhelming album, but it does ultimately leave the impression that more could (and should) have been achieved.
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| 4.0 excellent | pencils3 | January 3rd 11 |
I can't get enough of Nevermore right now. Between the power vocals of Warrel Dane and the guitar work of Jeff Loomis, this is really very special. In fact, I would go as far as to say that this is metal at its best - so long as you don't want 'happy metal', that is. Profoundly melancholic in places and deeply melodic throughout, this is a classic. Were it not for the cover of Paul Simon's Sound Of Silence, this would rate even higher - it isn't a weak track by any means, but as a huge Paul Simon fan, I wasn't completely convinced.
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| 4.0 excellent | seifer | October 8th 10 |
It's superb album no doubting it but seriously the sound of silence shouldn't be here. I love the original one but a metal band singing it pisses me off ow well nothing is perfect i guess
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| 5.0 classic | mcg182 | September 21st 10 |
Along with many bands, Nevermore changed their sound frequently. This is what I consider to be their most over-the-top sound, and though it lacks the technicality of the usual Nevermore, it doesn't stray from the masterpiece that it attempts to be. This attempt may have been a gamble, but it worked.
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| 4.5 superb | scissorlocked | February 15th 10 |
Nevermore's most coherent album to date. 7 strings and blah blah blah, this contains almost everything a metal act should have by the time it was released.
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| 4.0 excellent | CrazyFool84 | October 29th 08 |
This is my favourite Nevermore release. That's a tough call to make considering this band's consistency, but I find that overall atmosphere and power of these songs as a group or stand-alones carries the album to another level for the band. It may be because I'm a bigger fan of the older material, but for me this was the magum opus (so far) and a mark that seems to be looked back upon with each subsequent offering.
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| 4.0 excellent | whackerinc | July 18th 07 |
The bulk of the rating goes to one song. I think you know which one I'm talking about. Yes, it's The River Dragon Has Come. The song is monstrous. The solo is majestic. The rest album is good, no doubt about that. I particularly enjoy the first 3 songs a lot.
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| 3.5 great | DeathKnell | October 9th 06 |
An impressive effort by Nevermore, and outstanding playing as usual. However, momentum is thrown back and forth all over, and once again their attempt to inject a cover faulters (after listening to the original, it just sounds bad). Musically, the album's alright, but the ballads seem to be just thrown in for just for the sake of depth to an overall unrelenting - but not efficiently aggressive - album. They followed this formula through into Enemies of Reality, and I believe that, overall, they succeeded more then than with DHiDW.
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