Identity: Vol. 8 gives you 77 minutes of excellent music from
Century Media's best artists.
1. Watch Them Die: Torn Pages is intense death metal that
breaks the monotony of other death metal bands with some hardcore
influence.
2. Arch Enemy: Leader of the Rats is a solid mid-paced track of
riff-tastic Death N Roll with throat shredding vocals.
3. Children of Bodom: Needled 24/7 continues the fine tradition
of hyper speed skilled Finnish metal with the hard vocals and great
guitar/production work.
4. Shadows Fall: Deadworld write some of the best thrash riffs
since 80's era Metallica/Testament and this song continues that
technical feat with some ripping vocals.
5. Haste: With All the Pride and Dignity of a Drowning Swimmer
brings a true hardcore band into the fold with the requisite
breakdowns and vocal rants, but also has some melodic vocals too.
6. My Ruin: Made to Measure is a decent song, but this is one
female led band that doesn't really do anything for me with her
harsh vocals and simple song structures.
7. Eyes of Fire: Disintegrate is an okay song of aggressive
metal that doesn't really stick to my gray matter.
8. Nevermore: I, Voyager is a bit fast at times, but largely
melodic above the heavy riffs and excellent drumming…this is the
original mix.
9. Into Eternity: Spintered Visions opens with a breathtaking
fret burning solo before smashing some nice riffs and speed into
your face along with good clean/heavy vocals, great band.
10. Moonspell: The Southern Deathstyle is fairly aggressive in
relation to what the Portuguese had been doing on prior albums.
11. Labyrinth: The Prophet is power metal of the average kind,
very typical and average vocalist.
12. Passenger: I Die Slowly is a solid song with some very
catchy choruses sections that save the hard rock/metal from falling
into the abyss of boredom.
13. Extol: Grace For Succession has plenty of power in the vocal
assault, but sounds rather typical in its other musical aspects.
14. Krisiun: Murderer mixes that Cannibal Corpse/Morbid Angel
style of death metal into a batter that will appeal to most fans,
but is average at best.
15. Forsaken: First Weapon of Choice sounds like it could've
been written by any Swedish death metal band, especially
Abduction/Arrival era Hypocrisy.
16. Nightrage: Macabre Apparition shows a supergroup working
near their full potential even if the music is nothing fresh, just
excellent melodic Swedish death.
17. Carnal Forge: Bullet Proof God Material wasn't included on
the Swedish Death/Thrash album The More You Suffer, solid aggressive
metal.
18. Skinlab: Beneath The Surface is a barely average song by a
band that's faded out of the metal scene it seems.

Overall you can't go wrong with any installment of the Identity
compilation series. I have all 8 in the series and you can acquire
them for the pittance of $2-3 each from the label.
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