Out of Misery

Out of Misery

Out of Misery

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Soon after the band's 1996 inception, 9 Volt Records released the "Out Of Misery" EP and debut full-length "Reject The Sickness", helping God Forbid develop a strong, underground regional following. The buzz attracted Century Media Records, who signed the band and released three full-lengths, followed with tours (Ozzfest, The Headbanger's Ball Tour, Slipknot, Cradle Of Filth, Opeth, Atreyu, Slayer, Machine Head, and Meshuggah). God Forbid just released their finest album to date, "IV: The Constitution Of Treason", bridging the gap between thrash, hardcore, and traditional metal. The long out of print "Out Of Misery", where it all started, has finally been made available, with bonus tracks to boot.

Out of Misery,God Forbid,We Put Out,Death Metal/Black Metal,Hardcore Punk,Heavy Metal,Metal,Pop,Rock,Thrash
Handel: Belshazzar
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES
  • Enjoiyable, but lacking, too.
 Handel: Belshazzar

Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001ZWGHY
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire!
  3. Thou, God Most High, And Thou Alone
  4. The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh
  5. Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!
  6. Behold, By Persia's Hero Made
  7. Well May They Laugh/Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul
  8. Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief
  9. Dry Thoes Unavailing Tears
  10. Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem/Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates
  11. Now, Tell Me, Gobrias
  12. Behold The Monstrous Human Beast
  13. Can You Then Think It Strange
  14. Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known
  15. My Friends, Be Confident
  16. All Empires Upon God Depend
  17. Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!
  18. Rejoyce, My Countrymen
  19. Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!

Tracks:

  1. Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!
  2. For You, My Friends
  3. The Leafy Honours Of The Field
  4. It Is The Custom, I May Say, The Law
  5. Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command
  6. They Tell You True
  7. Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!
  8. By Slow Degrees The Wrath Of God
  9. See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!
  10. You See, My Friends, A Path
  11. Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near
  12. To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!
  13. Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire
  14. Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess
  15. Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?
  16. Call All My Wise Men

Tracks:

  1. A Singony (Allegro Postillions)
  2. Ye Sages! Welcome Always To Your King/Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes
  3. Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!
  4. Oh King, Live For Ever!
  5. No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be
  6. Yet, To Obey His Dread Command
  7. Oh Sentence To Severe!
  8. Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!
  9. You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace
  10. Oh Glorious Prince!
  11. Alternate Hopes And Fears
  12. Fain Would I Hope
  13. Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?
  14. My Hopes Revive
  15. Bel Boweth Down!
  16. I Thank, Thee, Sesach
  17. A Martial Symphony
  18. To Pow'e Immortal My First Thanks
  19. Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias
  20. Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow
  21. Say, Venerable Prophet
  22. Tell It Out Among The Heathen
  23. Yes, I Will Build Thy City
  24. I Will Magnify Thee

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES.......2005-06-19

One question I might find among the more difficult in my life would be - which is my favourite Handel oratorio? I suspect that my answer would generally be 'the one I heard most recently', and that, as I write this, is Belshazzar. It is a magnificent thing, a heavenly thing. It has taken me longer than it should have to come to an appreciation of what makes Handel the phenomenon - as a genius, as an artist, as a craftsman - that he is, but I am comforted to reflect that no less a genius than Haydn, at the age of nearly 70 gaining a more thorough knowledge of Handel in performance, was driven to say that he felt a mere apprentice. In his sense of how to pace a dramatic narrative, in his instinct for how to use the human voice in song and above all in chorus, in the matchless flexibility and adroitness he displays at word-setting and in the audacity of his melodic and harmonic effects I can think of nobody who can approach Handel on his own terms.

Belshazzar was not a great success at the box-office, although this may have had more to do with difficulties in the casting than because it was deemed insufficiently biblical for oratorio, which seems to have been the fate of Hercules. It seems to me to be perfectly well described as oratorio in other ways too, with (for one thing) the extensive use of the chorus that we find in, say, Samson but not in Hercules. The one passage that cries out for visual effects is of course the apparition of the moving finger itself. Even here the composer can go a long way with sheer power of suggestion, by the strange unaccompanied violin figure creeping upwards and the frightened brevity of the vocal numbers. Otherwise for me Belshazzar is as much an oratorio as Samson is. It has the same librettist too, the crusty and formidable Jennens, who had also collaborated with Handel on Saul and on Messiah itself. Jennens' full text is not provided, but I think if you read the synopsis first and then follow the work from the headlines to each number you will have no difficulty in catching the words, so clear is the enunciation by soloists and chorus alike. As usual, Handel was driven to make alterations to the score for practical reasons. He had been a little concerned about its length, roughly 2 hours and 50 minutes in this performance, but where he wishes to be expansive he gives us full measure - two arias in Act I scene 4 take well over 7 minutes each. The liner-essay (a good one, by Anthony Hicks) goes into the issue of the version of the score used here, and I personally have no problem with it.

I have no faults to find with the performance in any way. Pinnock is an established specialist, the instruments are period instruments and vocal cadenzas at the end of the arias are kept minimal. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, James Bowman and David Wilson-Johnson are tried and trusted Handel singers and at their best here, and Nicolas Robertson and Richard Wistreich in the smaller parts are every bit as good. The part of Cyrus is a soprano part, taken by Catherine Robbin, and when I thought I heard just one touch of strain in `Destructive War' in the final scene she makes up for it instantly in her superb duet with Arleen Auger in the following number. Auger as Nitocris the mother of Belshazzar has the biggest part, and she covers herself with glory all the way through.

The recording is perfect, and when I saw an aria entitled `Destructive War, thy limits know' near the end I felt a sharp sense of irony in the year 2005. Cyrus, Handel, Jennens, you should all have been living at this hour.

3 out of 5 stars Enjoiyable, but lacking, too........2004-08-16

This 3CD set of George Frederic Handel's (1685-1759) "Belshazzar", from Archiv Production, a division of Universal Music, is proof again that transfer from vinyl to tape to disc brings with it improvements in listening that make the purchase a worthwhile addition to anyone's listening library. Written in 1744, "Belshazzar" is an oratorio in the operatic style that is wonderful oratorio, but lacking the true depth one expects to hear in an opera. London opera audiences of Handel's day agreed, as both "Belshazzar" and Handel's other offering of the period in the same style, "Hercules", were not terribly successful. Instead of the scheduled 24 performances only 16 were given and Handel never offered a full season of oratorio again. The Libretto by Charles Jennens (1700-1773) is, as the production notes say, meant "not only to show the fall of Babylon but to show it as a fulfillment of divine prediction and to confirm the biblical testimony by reference to classical history." There's only one problem, as good a quality as the CDs are, it is not possible to follow the full libretto and the accompanying booklet includes no text, which is a shame. I think the listening experience would have been increased immeasurably if one was able to follow the text of what is being sung. Nonetheless the dramatic narrative is fluid and even, and the English Concert and Choir provide nice balance to the less full vocal passages, as in Disc 3s "Oh Glorious prince", cut 10. There is enough of this throughout to keep one's interest, but disappointing if what one expects is another ""Messiah".
Out of Misery
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • all of these cats are wrong..
  • DUMB
  • ok ignore the nim rod above.
  • God Forbid They let out another album that sucks this much
 Out of Misery
God Forbid
Manufacturer: We Put Out
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005OLHM
Release Date: 2001-09-25

Tracks:

  1. N2
  2. Mind Eraser
  3. Habeeber
  4. Madman
  5. Nosferatu
  6. Inside
  7. No Sympathy (Live)
  8. N2 (Live)
  9. Reject The Sickness (Live)
  10. Ammendment (Live)
  11. Propaganda (Live)

Album Description

Soon after the band's 1996 inception, 9 Volt Records released the "Out Of Misery" EP and debut full-length "Reject The Sickness", helping God Forbid develop a strong, underground regional following. The buzz attracted Century Media Records, who signed the band and released three full-lengths, followed with tours (Ozzfest, The Headbanger's Ball Tour, Slipknot, Cradle Of Filth, Opeth, Atreyu, Slayer, Machine Head, and Meshuggah). God Forbid just released their finest album to date, "IV: The Constitution Of Treason", bridging the gap between thrash, hardcore, and traditional metal. The long out of print "Out Of Misery", where it all started, has finally been made available, with bonus tracks to boot.

Album Description

Out Of Misery is now reissued and available in retail for the first time, with new artwork and 6 bonus tracks, including a live cover of Sepultura's 'Propaganda'. From The Telegraph Company label.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars all of these cats are wrong.........2005-07-24

comming from a veteran god forbid fan who owns everything theyve released this is by far their worst album, but thats not saying this album is bad. you have to be a very huge fan of GF to appreciate where they started at. some people are ignorant and give it a 1, others are even more ignorant and give it a 5...but i give it a three because most people will not like it but for those diehards out there this album is pure gold.

1 out of 5 stars DUMB.......2005-03-03

More kooky junk with a singer trying to sound "evil" when he really sounds like he's being impaled with a fire hydrant. Bad, terrible, awful, nothing of redeeming value. -1 Stars

5 out of 5 stars ok ignore the nim rod above........2004-08-07

this album is very good. quality isnt the best but trust me, this album is heavy and very pit worthy.

1 out of 5 stars God Forbid They let out another album that sucks this much.......2004-05-07

Terrible sound quality. Incoherent vocals along with an almost total absence of harmony leads make this album a big load of crap. I gave it one star because I think that they deserve at least that for their effort.Don't get me wrong I like God forbid but if you would like to purchase one of their albums please either get Get Determination or Gone Forever because this album will leave you wondering how could their debut album suck so much .
The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • lovely
  • No Thanks
  • Horrors!
  • whatever
  • Shameless profiteering posturing as a "tribute"
 The String Quartet Tribute to Elliott Smith
John Krovoza , Elliott Smith , Tom Tally , J'Anna Jacoby , and Tom Vos
Manufacturer: Vitamin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00062IEOQ
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

  1. Angeles
  2. Needle In The Hay
  3. Miss Misery
  4. No Name #3
  5. Easy Way Out
  6. Speed Trials
  7. Amity
  8. Somebody That I Used To Know
  9. Waltz #2
  10. Say Yes
  11. Between The Bars
  12. Happiness

Product Description

1. Needle In The Hay
2. No Name #3
3. Between The Bars
4. Say Yes
5. Angeles
6. Speed Trials
7. Waltz No. 2
8. Amity
9. Somebody That I Used To Know
10. Easy Way Out
11. Happiness
12. Miss Misery

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars lovely.......2006-03-18

As a fan of Elliott Smith and of classical string instruments, this is truely the best of both worlds. I completely disagree that this is butchery of a talented man's music. And I doubt very much that he would object to this cd. It gives it a whole new feel and really brings it to a new level of beauty. In my opinion, lovely is the greatest compliment that I can give.

1 out of 5 stars No Thanks.......2005-08-23

Normalmente los tributos tienden a hacer una diferencia o una mejora con los temas originales, los ejemplos sobran. Pero realmente sto pareciera ser un no-tributo, es como si una banda escolar fuera obligada a tocar temas que no les gustan, es realmente horrendo escuchar temas con tematicas y colores musicales hermosos como Waltz#2 destruídos por un supuesto "homenaje". No es la falta de las palabras lo que hace a este disco una verguenza, sino que es que no suena ni estimula nada... totalmente lo contrario de las versiones originales donde la sóla guitarra creaba una atmosfera increible.
Realmente no se de donde salió esta ocurrencia, y lo digo así por que no se me ocurre palabra que mejor describa esto que "ocurrencia".
Quedemosnos con el verdadero Elliott, tambien con algunos de sus temas ejecutados por Beck, pero esto... no gracias.

1 out of 5 stars Horrors!.......2005-08-08

Once again the string quartet butchers a brilliant artist with it's simplified arrangements and awful musicianship. If you want to hear versions Elliott's works do him justice check out Brad mehldau (bottle up and explode), Bill frisell (satellite), ir chris O'reilly's soon to be released tribute album.

5 out of 5 stars whatever.......2004-12-18

i just came across these string tributes and bought this one alonge with a david bowie and a radiohead one, and i think they're amazing. where the money goes to is completely irrelevant. kinda like saying spending money on anything that isnt elliott smith is selfish. the whole cd is great if your really into elliott smith. the way they put together waltz 2 sounds so great.

1 out of 5 stars Shameless profiteering posturing as a "tribute".......2004-12-08

What a bunch of tasteless bottom feeders! What an injustice postured as a tribute to a truly talented artist no longer alive to defend himself! PLEASE do not give these people your Money!
Out of Misery
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A worthwhile grab
 Out of Misery
God Forbid
Manufacturer: We Put Out
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BRP2A0
Release Date: 2005-12-06

Tracks:

  1. N2
  2. Mind Eraser
  3. Habeeber
  4. Madman
  5. Nosferatu
  6. Inside
  7. No Sympathy [Live]
  8. N2 [Live]
  9. Reject the Sickness [Live]
  10. Ammendment [Live]
  11. Propaganda

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A worthwhile grab.......2005-12-08

2005 is a great time to re-release God Forbid's sophomore EP. The band are at the height of their popularity, and so is metalcore. But I don't think of this as a cash-in; I prefer to think that God Forbid are one of those bands who want their fans to be happy, and don't want them to spend a billion dollars to find their rare C.D.'s. Aside from Bryan's rather unoriginal (and sometimes annoying) vocals, "Out of Misery" is quite a bit better than God Forbid's debut album, "Determination." The main reason for this is that the production and sound quality are much improved. The opening song, "N2," doesn't groove very fluidly, but it has a pounding rhythm with a fast double bass, and the next two tracks, "Mind Eraser" and "Habeeber," have heavy, almost blistering chug and churn guitars. "Madman" is kind of grating to listen to, because it's dominated by Bryan's heavy bellows and primal screams, but the next song, "Nosferatu," makes up for it with catchy, machine gun riffs and evil, Morbid Angel-like vocals. The last studio ("Inside") track is my personal favorite because it's very thrashy, with blowtorch riffs, pounding drums, and some high-pitched yells. The last five tracks on here are live, which were recorded at CBGB's club in New York, but they sound like they were recorded in someone's garage, because the sound quality is so wretched. Once you get past that, however, most fans should enjoy these songs because they are so heavy, they're borderline hardcore. "Out of Misery" is definitely not this band's best work, so it's not really worth owning for every metalcore/New Wave of American Heavy Metal collection. But it is essential for every God Forbid collection, so no fan should skip picking this up.
The Kola Koca Death Squad
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		The Kola Koca Death Squad
    The Kola Koca Death Squad
    Manufacturer: Wife Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0008FUP3Y
    Release Date: 2005-04-02

    Tracks:

    1. Rising Son
    2. Power Condition
    3. Out Of Tune With The World
    4. W.T.F.
    5. Sadie Gray
    6. Trying To Remember
    7. Power Stroke
    8. Cause And Effect
    9. Girls In Action
    10. To Whom It May Concern
    11. Let's See
    12. Long Way
    13. We're Gonna Go With This

    Product Description

    Sincere and epic rock music with a hint of empathy. Kola Koca might not put you out of your misery but they certainly will get your mind off you problems. The Death Squad features tight instrumentation with warm fuzzy guitars.
    Closest Line Theory
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Catchy rock tunes!
    • This album rocks!
    		 Closest Line Theory
    Dream Life Misery
    Manufacturer: DLM
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0002TILNM
    Release Date: 2004-07-29

    Tracks:

    1. Out of Nowhere
    2. Farewell December
    3. The Enemy
    4. To Say the Least
    5. Low
    6. Disappear
    7. All You Really Want
    8. Time is Now
    9. The Word
    10. Make It Rain
    11. That Way

    Album Description

    Modern Alternative Rock at it's best. You just can't get these songs out of your head.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Catchy rock tunes!.......2004-08-22

    I love this CD - especially the first three tracks. Bravo DLM!

    5 out of 5 stars This album rocks!.......2004-08-18

    This album rocks! Great sound. No gimmicks, just great rock.
    T.a.S.C.
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		T.a.S.C.

      Manufacturer: Fast X
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000CA2Q1O
      Release Date: 2004-07-06
      "Limited Edition 2 CD set" The New Black [ENHANCED] Century Media bonus CD includes: Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, God Forbid, Behemoth, The Haunted, Lacuna Coil
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        		"Limited Edition 2 CD set" The New Black [ENHANCED] Century Media bonus CD includes: Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, God Forbid, Behemoth, The Haunted, Lacuna Coil
        Strapping Young Lad
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000JN75Z6

        Product Description

        Disc: 1 1. Decimator 2. You Suck 3. Anti Product 4. Monument 5. Wrong Side 6. Hope 7. Far Beyond Metal 8. [Untitled Track] 9. Almost Again 10. Polyphony 11. The New Black Disc: 2 1. In Effigy - Shadows Fall 2. My Apocalypse - Arch Enemy 3. Chains of Humanity - God Forbid 4. Slaves Shall Serve 5. 99 6. Our Truth - Lacuna Coil

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