CD 1:
1. An Ocean’s Monument
2. Code Of Honor
3. Earthlings
4. The Brave / Agony Applause
5. Dark Cell
6. Virus Jones
7. A New Era
8. We Shall All Bleed
9. Renegade
10. Martyr To Science
11. Awakened By Sirens 2014
12. To Where The Skies Are Blue
13. Htrae
14. End Begins
15. The Arsenic River
CD 2:
1. Petition For Mercy – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
2. Broken Mirror – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
3. What´s The Use – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
4. Face To Face – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
5. Ignorance – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
6. Deprivation – Insist Demo Tape (1998)
7. The One Who’s Silent Seems To Consent – unreleased track from Deadlock 7″ (1999)
8. Picture – unreleased track from Deadlock 7″ (1999)
9. A Song Full of Abhorrence in a World Without Feelings… – I’ll Wake You When Spring Awakes (EP) (Winter Recordings 2000)
10. With a Smile on My Face – The Arrival (Winter Recordings 2002)
11. The End Of The World – Deadlock / Six Reasons to Kill Split (Winter Recordings 2003)
12. 10.000 Generations In Blood – Earth.Revolt (2005)
13. When Time Runs Out (Running Wild Cover) – ReUnation Sampler- A Tribute To Running Wild (Remedy Records 2009)
14. Awakened By Sirens – Unreleased Acoustic Version (2011)
15. Earthlings – Bizarro World, Japanese Edition (2011)
"DON'T BUY THIS ALBUM!" That's what this album should say on its cover, or even better, what it should be this album's name. Don't be wrong, this is not a bad release by itself, but for those who have bought already the previous albums, it's just a waste of money. Why is that? Lets see.
Deadlock is a band of which you have heard, for sure, if death metal is of your liking. It has become one of the most famous Melodic Death Metal Bands, because of its very accessible music style.
But not always Deadlock's music has been so accessible to the more common audience. Their two first albums, "The Arrival" and "Earth.Revolt", released in 2002 and 2005, respectively, are very different from the forthcoming ones. It's like they were albums of a different band. Indeed, there is very little resemblance between the styles displayed. The first disks were close to an atmospheric melodic death metal with little use of clean vocals, high pitched harsh vocals and an extensive use of reverb on the vocals and strings (synths). The style was less melodic as the very composition was different. The characteristic dichotomy between melodic choruses with clean vocals and aggressive riffs with harsh vocals, wasn't present either.
Because of this, it's hard to say there has been an evolution between Earth.Revolt and the next release,"Wolves". The music is too different for doing that.
After a disapointing last album, "The Arsonist", Deadlock presents "The Re-Arrival", an album filled with old songs, with no justified existence.
This work is composed of two disks. One, is the main one, having 15 songs of which only 3 are new ones. The second one has also 15 songs, taken from the 1998 demo and other rare recordings.
About the first disk, do you know the said "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Well, it seems that Deadlock don't share this idea; "The Re-Arrival", is opposed to that idea. Only 3 songs are new ones, while all the others are old re-recorded ones with some new arrangements. As you may have already guessed, the result is not good, at all.
There are a few reasons for that. First of all, as just said, there was no need to make such work. The original chosen songs aren't badly recorded, badly performed or sounding bad. It would have made more sense that the chosen songs were the oldest ones, of the first or second album, which have the worst sound and could have an update. If Killswitch Engage, did it (flawlessly) with their first album, why couldn't Deadlock do it too? Even more when this work is titled The "RE-Arrival"... So why the fuk this isn't an updated version of their first full work? It really makes no sense at all. Just one song from one of the first albums, Earth.Revolt, made it to this shit. The new version was made well enough and it's interesting enough to be recomended.
Second, the invested work is almost worthless. Some new songs are worse than the old ones. Some decisions about the sound weren't the best ones, like the removal of some filters on Sabine's voice and other instruments. The sound is cleaner, of course, but at the cost of atmosphere. Also, the new harsh vocals aren't bad, but they are worse than the original ones.
Third, the inclusion of new pieces in this release is just an effort to make it attractive to the public, as a whole. Therefore, the only good reason to buy the album are these songs. However, they aren't good enough for that. "A New Era" is one of those, and it's maybe this release best one, so be sure to don't miss it. The other two songs are nothing special.
At least, the audio is great, as it has to be in a release of this kind. The recoding, mixing, mastering processes and even the instruments are better, overall, however some changes aren't very fortunate. As said before, there are original songs that sound or are performed better.
The second disk is a bit more of what you may expect from a remastered old songs compilation. The sound was well tuned, and its always nice to hear the first songs ever released by your favorite band or to just complete your collection.
Still, the Insist Demo Tape songs sound is horrible, but the unreleased version of "Awakened By Sirens", as well as the remastered versions of "10,000 Generations In Blood, of Earth.Revolt, and "With A Smile On My Face", of The Arrival, and other pieces, make this second disk a lot more interesting than the first one.
So, is it worth buying these discs? All depends on the price. At bestbuy.com the Digipack version is priced at $12.99, with free shipping. It's a good deal, but if you value your money, it's better to go for the digital purchase of the three new songs, and of the good ones of the second disk.
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