Artist: Ripping Corpse
Released: 1991 RATING: 4/5
The Good: Standing at the very crossroads of Death Metal and Thrash Metal is Ripping Corpse's sole LP Dreaming With The Dead. The album is a bit of an enigma; while not necesarily ground-breaking, Dreaming's overall sound and approach are not very common. Full-blown guitar solos are, for the most part, replaced by solo fills throughout the songs, carefully woven in-between and alongside the lyrics. The musicianship is top-notch, and the songs just sound brutal. With songs of varying lengths from about two-to-four minutes each, the album is best experienced when listened to as a whole. A lost gem from the golden era of extreme music.
The Bad: The production helps add to the album's doomy, erie feel, but one gets the feeling that the music itself would be more enjoyable if it could be heard properly. The album's murky tone does little to help identify the complicated guitar and bass playing throughout.
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