### Liquid Graveyard: The fifth time I died

#### 09/05/11 || Altmer

Apparently there’s a guitarist from the defunct UK band Cancer in this band. After that band’s dissolution, he formed this outfit called Liquid Gay-yard and started to play guitar for it. The band describe themselves as death metal with progressive rock and alternative influences. I have to be honest with you guys here: I’m not hearing the progressive bits. Progressive is an overused term anyway. Half the bands that are called progressive put the same album out every year. Or they are basically thrash metal with added keyboards or something. That’s the case here too; there’s nothing progressive on here. Having a chick sing doesn’t make it progressive music.

What is true though is that they don’t sound like conventional death metal. It’s slower at times and it’s a bit more melodic here and there. I can’t say that’s very enticing, though. What we basically get is the same boring riffs repeated ad nauseam. I’m not sure that is what we wanted. This guy has absolutely ZERO skills at writing any form of good hooks. It’s tight and well-played enough, but it sounds like Enslaved’s very shitty cousin. The stupid black metal vocals don’t really help matters. Just keep the chick singing please, the frog croaking is a reason to turn this album off right now.

There are some good moments scattered about this album, though. The fourth song actually sounds like a decent song despite the really uninspired riffing. The chick singing manages to make the chorus sound at least somewhat decent. Now if the guy would only play something useful during the verses… I even hear a nod towards Dream Theater on this song. That is nice to witness.

Like so many label sent records that have come before this one, this one goes straight into the delete folder. Not because it’s atrociously awful, but instead because it induces the type of torpor that would make vegetative patients look like chipper squirrels playing on green fields. This is so fucking dull that it makes getting flu shots exciting. I recommend you stay away from this unless your resources of good music have run out and you need something to kill the time.

Recommendation: Hooks in me. Please. Not just stabbing with needles. You may be a guitarist from some legendary band, but this is still some boring music.

- Information
- Released: 2011
- Label: My Kingdom Music
- Website: Liquid Graveyard MySpace
- Band
- Raquel Walker: vocals
- John Walker: guitars, vocals (?)
- Al Jimenez: bass
- Gustavo Segura: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. I Colossus
- 02. Violent Skies
- 03. Attractor
- 04. Reflections
- 05. The Fifth Time I Died
- 06. Expendable
- 07. The Glorious Bitter Seeds
- 08. Beholder
- 09. Invisible Names
- 10. Interlude
- 11. Liquid Graveyard