{"id":4440,"date":"2012-06-19T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:47:53","slug":"unleashed-odelheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/06\/19\/unleashed-odelheim\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLEASHED &#8211; Odelheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.002297615399584174\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4441\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/06\/19\/unleashed-odelheim\/odalheim1-300x300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4441\" title=\"Odalheim1-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Odalheim1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their BRUTAL bio calls them THE viking metal band. As with most things Nuclear Blast, there are moments here, but largely this comes off as calculated and formulaic. Riff followed by perfectly assembled verse. Acoustic segue. Etcetera. You know the drill and so do they.<!--more--> A long running Swedish outfit, I am sure there are moments in the back catalog that makes the well constructed but contrived \u201cimagine this in an arena, dude!\u201d moments of this latest product cringe and retreat into the branches of Yggdrasil where they belong. But this does not inspire me to revisit them. Enjoy if you do. It is not the worst thing ever recorded. However, it leaves me lukewarm in the face of so many more relevant claims to being \u201cthe ultimate embodiment of death metal.\u201d Fuck the presskit. Fire the publicist. Fuck Decibel, Facebook, Blabbermouth and Lambgoat. Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZdL-wNwXPCg\" target=\"_blank\">Entombed<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ey6vm3Slxa8\" target=\"_blank\">Dismember <\/a>instead. (Nuclear Blast USA, <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearblastusa.com\">nuclearblastusa.com<\/a>) <strong>Brad Skibinsky <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their BRUTAL bio calls them THE viking metal band. As with most things Nuclear Blast, there are moments here, but largely this comes off as calculated and formulaic. Riff followed by perfectly assembled verse. Acoustic segue. Etcetera. You know the drill and so do they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,684,928],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-metal","tag-nuclear-blast","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}