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At the Coalface: The Memoir of a Pit Nurse
Book
A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan,...
We Are The Romans by Botch
Album
Metalcore band moved further into noiscore alongside bandsime converge and coalesce with this heavy...
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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Functioning on Impatience by Coalesce in Music
Nov 1, 2019
Amazing even if not their best
Coalesce sound like led Zeppelin if they decided to become really really REALLY heavy. That's it. What more do you need to know
0:12 Revolution in Just Listening by Coalesce
Album
The heaviest, grooviest riffs of Zeppelin turned all the way up with gravel roads on top. Epic.
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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated We Are The Romans by Botch in Music
Oct 30, 2019
One of the greatest of all time
We Are The Romans is simply one of the greatest albums of all time. Period. Their second studio album Botch took it up a notch. It's like discordant emo if it had only listened to Coalesce and took steroids. It's incredibly heavy but also beautiful. It's hard without being macho, it's orchestral without being over the top. I can listen to this album over and over again and never get bored, just constantly absorb the emotion it gives me. An incredible album.
James Koppert (2698 KP) rated 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening by Coalesce in Music
Nov 1, 2019 (Updated Nov 1, 2019)
The heaviest groove train
It's hard to choose which is the best, Botch: We are the Romans, Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity, Converge:Jane Doe or this by Converge. Converge always were incredible from the first release to now the consistency has been superb but this, for me has been their pinicle.
So what do they sound like? Well imagine the grooviest riffs by Zeppelin but infinitely heavier, throw in some jazz timing and some of the most gravelly roars the human throat can muster and this is Coalesce. The sounds are great slabs that smash you across the head. It's just so damn heavy and so damn groovy at the same time. Incredible.
So what do they sound like? Well imagine the grooviest riffs by Zeppelin but infinitely heavier, throw in some jazz timing and some of the most gravelly roars the human throat can muster and this is Coalesce. The sounds are great slabs that smash you across the head. It's just so damn heavy and so damn groovy at the same time. Incredible.
I have to say that, although I haven't read them all, I usually quite enjoy Crichton's novels. Unfortunately, if I had to sum "Next" up in one word, that word would have to be: "disappointing"
I think the problem is that there's no clear central character: unlike, say, "Prey" or even the famous "Jurassic Park" I didn't really 'conect' with anybody in the story. Although the various threads did all coalesce towards the latter half, it also came across more like a jumble of mini-stories haphazardly collected together than as one coherent whole.
I'm just glad the "Next" was not the first Crichton book I read (that would have to be "Jurassic Park"): if it was, I wouldn't be going out of my way to read more!
I think the problem is that there's no clear central character: unlike, say, "Prey" or even the famous "Jurassic Park" I didn't really 'conect' with anybody in the story. Although the various threads did all coalesce towards the latter half, it also came across more like a jumble of mini-stories haphazardly collected together than as one coherent whole.
I'm just glad the "Next" was not the first Crichton book I read (that would have to be "Jurassic Park"): if it was, I wouldn't be going out of my way to read more!