Many of the riffs are very, very structured on being as wankery as they can without sounding too out-of-key within the process. The bass guitar is audible in most of the music and is somewhat impressive on what Brent Riggs can do with just his fingers. He slaps, pops and grooves away while the band's two guitarists take the lead. His bass work is in some cases mediocre but overall I just give him praise in the least that I can hear him on this record which isn't a usual thing in all of today's death metal.
He even has some of his own bass breaks where the music stops for a brief second, giving him the spotlight such as in "Bearing the Serpent's Lamb". Vocals have changed since Doom. Davy's deathcore voice that he possessed on the EP may still retain the same growling technique he had with no noticeable improvement there but his screams have been reduced by almost tenfold since this is death metal after all, not deathcore anymore but when he does scream, it sounds not near as exaggerated or overdone as it was on Doom.
Also his lyrics on this release takes a turn for speaking of dark issues within politics and of course the dreaded VeriChip "suppressing technology" indeed. His pathetic excuses for blast beats on that release have now been replaced with matured and varied playing styles with double bass kicks that come in like a charm. He also has a few very interesting tools at his disposal that he unleashes on a few of the songs if you pay close enough attention get a load of the typewriter-sounding "ding" sounds he makes with his ride symbol during "Embedded".
All in all, Genesis is an amazing death metal record and was even awarded the best selling debut metal album since Slipknot's debut album from and I can honestly say, I'm not so surprised. One of the best smashing extreme metal pieces of all coming from a band that once would have been left behind forgotten in the reign of deathcore clones if they did not change their style which thankfully was done. After riding high on a mass wave of fan buzz, Metal Blade was fairly quick to snap up the young Job for a Cowboy, one of the primary, emergent forces in what many dreaded to label 'deathcore', or what I might deign to label 'death metal with breakdowns performed by mostly guys with very short hair and cool tattoos'.
If the countless hundreds of promos or suggestions I've been receiving in the past 4 years are any indication, this was no drop in the pan, and there was no finite end in sight to the flood. However, something in the dry Arizona air must have taken hold on the resolution and spines of Job for a Cowboy, because their debut full-length Genesis arrived as a stark evolution on the unmemorable rabble of the Doom EP in What they have done here is learned to actually pen a pretty good song.
Not only do they incorporate a lot more straight brutal death metal, and set up the vocals better against the weaving bombast of the guitars and drums, but they actually manage to manufacture breakdowns that are simply superior to those of their formative years. Sure, they happen, but the band ensures that something entertaining will always be happening for those of us who prefer the more graceful acrobatic events to the brute shotput of the slam dancing anthems.
And they clean up tidily, with 10 tracks in just 30 minutes, leaving no time for the listener to grow bored, simply to wonder what it was that just spun your head about degrees on your neck. Oh yeah, and the cover art also kicks ass The groove at 1: This is a longer track for the album, at over 4 minutes, but despite the more prolonged, slower grooving sections, it manages to retain its edge.
There is a point in which this song teases you that it's going to involves one of the band's older, shittier breakdowns, but they are quick to relent with a brick wall of tumbling death. Surprisingly, Job for a Cowboy have nothing waiting in the deeper wings of the album save more of their impressive, evolutionary juggernaut force.
The breakdowns later in the song playout in a very similar manner to what Poland's Decapitated were writing on their first two albums.
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It doesn't change much in the 'epic' length of 4: Not a total waste, mind you, but some of the breakdowns have seen better days. In all, I was quite pleased with what I had heard here. I'm not going to sit here and gab about whether or not this band has 'legitimized' itself through its Genesis. You can either judge the record for what it is, or bellyache about what it's not. What I'm hearing here is a death metal record, with a trace of the band's thundering boyhood breakdown savvy that just won't completely die. But the forefront here is a blast of powerful, energetic modern death metal with some nice riffing that compares favorable to a lot of the brutal young acts that have been popping up these past few years in the tech death spectrum.
So give it a chance. It's hardly an immortal effort, but Job for a Cowboy has regrouped, written songs with an actual direction, and beaten the disbelief out this old codger. Improvement is a relative term, and when someone states that this album is an improvement on the last one they are correct, but that is not necessarily a strong case for purchasing this considering how bad its predecessor actually was.
It is well established that the style this band sort of pioneered has been a force in the musical mainstream, which makes this seeming departure from it a little curious. Does this move away from the hardcore side of their hybrid stylistic misconception amount to them admitting that their last release was terrible? Probably not, but this embracement of a more consistent formula that somewhat resembles death metal has not done a hell of a lot to improve their problems. The drum approach is mostly where the disjointedness of their sound has endured, as the fills are pointless, the changeups are extremely numerous, and no discernable beat emerges.
Any sense of continuity that might appear in the arrangement is largely dependent on the riffs, which still avoid anything memorable, and occasionally revert back to the meandering that typifies previous works. The band has also elected to employ guitar solos for the first time, which was a very huge mistake given their inability to even create solid guitar riffs. They are simply there, in the most generic fashion, acting as yet another musically directionless piece of window dressing on top of a cesspool of dry riffs and drum showboating.
The vocal approach is where most of the actual improvement has emerged. Instead of simply piling on more over-varied vocal impersonations of multiple extreme styles, most of what is heard on here is passable though unspectacular George Fisher style death grunts. Occasionally some half assed primal screams work their way in, but most of the time they tend to work with the primary grunts rather than fight them for prominence.
While not something that could be called a highlight of the album, it definitely cuts down on the otherwise offensive and pointless technical wanking present everywhere else and anchors the sound into something that could be called loosely regulated. It mostly resembles a decent Dimmu Borgir song without the shrieks with a little bit of a doom element to it. The vocal delivery is adequate and the drums completely avoid doing fills every 3 seconds or bouncing back between triple and double feel every 8 seconds. Although a pretty short listen, the highly compressed amount of unmemorable ideas makes it seem a lot longer.
It is uncertain what the future will hold for death metal, but a better future would be one with this band ceasing to exist. Doom was a live album in the worst possible sense, which is why I was surprised to find that Genesis actually made attempts towards making an album that is enjoyable to listen to in the comfort of your own home rather then having to see them once a year in a live setting since not only is the production awesome but many parts of Doom that simply didn't translate well to a recording have been fixed. However, Genesis has several problems of its own despite being a step in the right direction.
The biggest issues that people had with Doom were fixed with Genesis which shows that the band is capable of listening to constructive criticism and reacting accordingly. Gone are the crappy pig squeals that brought down Doom.
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That is very much a good thing as they were incredibly annoying despite the fact that Jonny Davy is an otherwise good vocalist. The result is a much more straightforward and far less annoying album that is mostly brought down by "Reign in Blood Syndrome" as the tracks all sound more or less alike and focus on being brutal and aggressive rather than concentrating on songwriting and the album suffers from that despite accomplishing what it clearly set out to do. That brings me to Genesis' other faults. Namely the fact that Jonny may no longer be randomly playing around with his voice as much as he used to be, but he comes across as boring since he isn't using his scream as much as he used to and he has always had one hell of a scream.
The fact that he mostly uses one type of grunt as well also makes his delivery monotonous and helps to meld all of the tracks together. Varying his vocal delivery while avoiding the pig squeals would have really brought the score up, but sadly he seems to be playing too conservatively. As for the guitars, they just disappoint.
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Some of the riffs can be technical but they usually bore me. Breaking up the monotony are some solos and breakdowns but both are usually so brief that it takes a few listens to notice that either are present. In fact, I'm not even sure that some tracks have either and while Reduced to Mere Filth has both, both the solo and breakdown are over way too fast to really grab my attention. The solos just sound incomplete and seem to end right when they're picking up momentum and while the solos in Embedded and Martyrdom Unsealed and the breakdown in Coalescing Prophecy do grab my attention, they're the exceptions to the rule on this album.
Ravi is showing improvement but at the same time he isn't really pushing himself as far as he can, despite showing that he is capable of so much more than he's displaying. At the same time, this album can be display some well crafted songs like Embedded and The Divine Falsehood with the latter being good by any band's standards, which just makes the rest of this album that much more disappointing. At the same time, Job for a Cowboy is one of the best live acts around today so if you're going to waste any money on this band, please spend it on a concert ticket and just download this album for free rather than wasting your money and shelf space on it unless you really like Slayer's Reign in Blood.
I expect great things from this band in the future but I still feel that they were signed too early into their career and are still developing musically. As just about everyone on this site knows Job For A Cowboy are a band loved by scene kids thanks to the release of their insanely awful 'Doom' EP but what you may not know is that this band have grown up a great deal since their early days and are now genuine death metal.
God only knows what sparked the change in their music but we can safely say it was for the best. But is this switch of genre enough to make this band enjoyable?
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This album is only really amazing if you stack it up with the bands previous releases but to be honest most music is better than 'Doom' so it's really not saying much. Everything about this album feels lackluster from the riffs to the vocals it just doesn't impress. Musically speaking this album is pretty basic death metal. Some tremolo picking here and some slightly melodic solos there is not enough to make something that stands out from the crowded genre of death metal.
The musicianship has definitely improved from the 'Doom' era and its obvious from the get go. The drums are much more enjoyable and the guitar work is much more thought out than all the tracks on the EP put together. This album is a completely different experience from the EP as 'Genesis' doesn't sound half-arsed. The band now sound as though they can be taken seriously as proper metal. Basically Job For A Cowboy no longer come off as music that will fade out in a few years along with all the other deathcore bands.
Vocally there has been a massive improvement due to the noticeable ditching of the annoying and laughable pig squeals. Unfortunately though this albums vocal work is pretty dull and if you listen to a good amount of death metal then you will have heard it all before. There is nothing that makes this album stick out and it's just incredibly dull. Whilst writing this review I was listening to the album again and after just the 1st track I was bored. What that says to me is that you shouldn't waste your time with lackluster bands that are uninteresting when there are bands much more worthy of your time.
Job For A Cowboy may improve further now they have ditched the deathcore genre but this album is average death metal. Finally I would like to add that I respect this band for changing from marketable trash to real metal as many bands do the exact opposite, I'm sure anyone reading this can think of at least one example without me naming names, but that said a new found respect for Job For A Cowboy couldn't get them anything higher than a 50 rating. Nice try but no cigar lads. Job For A Cowboy is one of my favorite bands. I have seen them a couple of times, and they are always awesome.
This is the follow up to their Doom E. The drums on this album are great. There arent any mistakes or mess ups. The variety and complexity form together to create an amazing album. The drums on Genesis are much better than on the Doom E. The doulbe bass is five times faster, and the blast beats are more precise. The guitars are great also, but the solos are lacking compared to the Doom E.
The riffs have become more complicated, but the solos are just not as good. They are also only like 10 seconds long. The bass still has the slide up and down thing, which is cool. With a change of vocalist, it is always hard to bring in a new style and still sound some what the same, but JFAC did it well.
There are no pig vocals on this album, and there are only a few times when the high voice is going by itself, but the vocals are still amazing. He sounds like he was born to do this. Job For A Cowboy is a great band. This gets a 95 from me. It would have gotten , but they could have done without the two ambient tracks, and the solos could have been better and longer. The reputation Job For A Cowboy have managed to garner in record-breaking time is one that many a metalhead has frothed about. Not without reason either — metal is a culture of deeply held beliefs and values, and few of its most passionate participants are likely to take kindly to having the most sacred death metal plundered by scenesters with pigeon shite haircuts labouring under the delusion that a windmill is something you do with your limbs.
Your humble reviewer has heard these bands, loathes these bands, and was all too ready to believe that Job For A Cowboy, a band lumped into this foul grouping, were no better than the dross surrounding them. So what a pleasant surprise it was when, during an uncertain listen after recommendations from some of the grimiest, old-school death heads around, this album revealed itself to be a somewhat gratifying experience.
Indisputably, this is a million miles from the modern classic it is inexplicably toted as, but nonetheless provides you with something to blast away half an hour with. As songwriters, Job For A Cowboy are guaranteed to divide opinion. Many will appreciate the streamlining and anteing up their sound has undergone in terms of aggression - it is hard to accurately articulate how much of a merciful relief it is to hear breakdowns become conspicuous by their absence.
The lyrics to the album are a true highlight — an intelligently written and surprisingly engaging adaptation of key elements of the Book of Revelations that puts to shame plenty of modern death metal lyricism. The riffs here do ultimately begin to blend into one after a while, with few memorable moments distinguishing one song from another. The band as players, despite many shortcomings, have their strong points.
The modern production work serves them well, slick and streamlined but managing to avoid the over-polished feel that blights many modern heavy records. So after Job For A Cowboy finished the 'Doom' EP, which was pretty mediocre if wildly popular deathcore, they decided to drop the metalcore influences almost entirely and go for a pure modern death metal sound, which essentially means that they do their best to make a modern Behemoth album and succeed about halfway. Apparently the band is much better at cloning Behemoth than they are at making deathcore, because 'Genesis' is substantially better than the debut EP in just about every respect.
I didn't think that the metalcore influences were a particularly bad thing on their own, but they were shoehorned into what were fairly standard, moderately technical death metal. It's good to see them just go for the latter, where their strengths lie. They're few and far between though, and most of it is bombastic, crushing guitar riffs in the latter-era Behemoth style with a similarly dogmatic drum performance.
The vocals are obviously not Nergal's double-tracked monstrosities, but more of a growling shout, probably the biggest reference to their -core roots. Songs like 'Embedded' are the clearest Behemoth worship, sounding essentially exactly like the Polish band in nearly every department. There are occasional parts that don't sound like newer Behemoth which instead sound like mid-era Behemoth , but this is for all intents and purposes a complete clone.
Fortunately, Behemoth is a good band to clone!
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Everyone likes new Behemoth, including me, so 'Genesis' is a fun listen for those who liked 'Demigod' but wished it could be a teensy bit less bombastic all the time. So what you have here is a more measured, reasonable version of new Behemoth with shouty vocals. Ignore the name on the cover and this is a pretty basic and effective modern death metal album.
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