HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!! Soul Embraced is awesome!!! This new Solid State band is totally amazing. MY GOD I LOVE THIS ALBUM! I only wish this were released a long time ago. This disk is one disk you must have! I REPEAT YOU NEED TO BUY THIS DISK!!!!! It is so awesome. For the Incomplete is such a raw album. It is metal core/death metal frenzy. Also Rocky Gray from Living Sacrifice plays for this band so you know they are guitar driven. They are nuts. They kick butt to the max. They sound like Living Sacrifice from back then and Extol with Slayer roots. The band is heavier than a Sherman Tank. The message is hard to understand because of the intense growling and musical onslaught. This is a great album for those who love to take in the metal power!!! I love this band and it is my rebuttal on death metal. I usually hate this music, but this is obviously a much better album.
Let me dissect this so you can understand what I am saying. The drums are fast, pounding and just plain grizzly. The bass, well I couldn't really hear the bass with all that was going on, but to keep up with a band like this you have to be good. The guitars are nothing short of phenomenal. You heard me, phenomenal. The solos are so good!!! The vocals are hard to understand, luckily this band has a lyric sheet or else you WILL be lost. There is a lot riding on this album being that they are from Solid State, Christian music's leading core productions. They share the ball with Living Sacrifice, Extol and yes Zao. Did I mention I love this band. They are also doing something with Clenchedfist Records. I would prefer this album to everyone. It is so good you kind of by law have to buy it. You know Section 6478 in rule 56 in The Project's rule book, you must buy albums that rule. Told you! I would give this band an 11 but I am limited to 10 so that's what I give them.
10/10
Other coverage for this album
HM Magazine #89Reviewed by Jason DoddApparently Rocky Gray and Lance Garvin cannot get enough of the Metal from just playing in Living Sacrifice. Their compulsion is our good fortune, when it takes the 100% Pure Metal form of Soul Embraced. The production is so sharp on For the Incomplete, that their songs actually feel metallic - every string piercing the ear, and every drum beat pinging beneath the thunder. Speed breakdowns…Art for the Ears 2001Reviewed by Marco PovervestSoul Embraced is a trio consisting of two members of Living Sacrifice (Lance Garvin & Rocky Gray) and vocalist Chad Moore. The music on this record is what Living Sacrifice might have sounded like today if they hadn't strayed away from their death metal path in the mid nineties. Yes, Soul Embraced is death metal and sounding pretty good too. This disc contains 11 songs of which four are…The Phantom Tollbooth 2001Reviewed by Josh SpencerI've been playing Gauntlet: Dark Legacy on Playstation 2 this past week, and you know how as your character gains levels, becomes more powerful, and finds items, he/she starts looking more and more formidable? New armor, bigger weapons, a more confident swagger. That's what Soul Embraced is like. I mean, at their core they're still old school death metal, but two of the guys in the band (Living…Dead Zine 2001Reviewed by NecRoSarXPlease excuse me whilst I shiver in complete ecstasy. What can I say? Other than For the Incomplete is a collection of some of the finest neo-death metal sounds I've ever heard since Living Sacrifice decided to get reborn. I say "neo-death metal" because, despite Soul Embraced being comprised of members of afore mentioned Living Sacrifice, ahem, THIS IS NOT TO BE LUMPED WITH THE GENERAL…Dead Zine 2001Reviewed by undeadThere's been a segment of the scene for some time now that's been crying for Living Sacrifice to return to their death metal roots (weren't their roots speed/thrash?). Well kids, SOUP'S ON!!! This is as close as you're going to get, and it's close enough for me. That said, Soul Embraced sounds almost nothing like the old LS death albums. I'd describe the overall sound as Diatribes era Napalm…Dead Zine 2001Reviewed by D_ListerDid someone just give me a Halloween's day present or what? I suppose I'll probably face some flame over the mention of a pagan holiday, but I can't help it. This CD is simply put SCARY. Truly this album is terror filled americana styled death metal. Brutal, yes it's brutal, but it's also beyond brutal. Intense, certainly intense but more than just that. This album has that terrifying sound that…Similar sounding releases
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