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This is the review I wrote for Ultimatum-Into The Pit On Amazon:
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Dallas Black Review of Ultimatum's Into The Pit Stars-5-0._V47081849_ Ultimatum's Best Effort Yet, January 28, 2008

By Michel I. Newcomb - See all my reviews
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Over the past years I've been re-introduced to many thrash bands I lost track of over the years. This can be attributed to my discovery of Nolifetilmetal.com. Scott Water's metal collection is like nothing I've seen before and when I found out he was the vocalist of Ultimatum I was stunned to say the least. I had known about Ultimatum for many years though only a few songs here and there and liked what I heard. Unfortunately, their albums became increasingly difficult to find until now. Retroactive has made their previous albums available and though I didn't like them as much as many other thrash bands I was familiar with, it was still good quality thrash. Now with the release of Into The Pit, Ultimatum went from good thrash band to great thrash band (up there with Touniquet, Deliverance, Testament, Overkill, Vengeance Rising, and more). This is how thrash should be. Thundering double bass drums, shredding guitar solos, and aggressive vocals abound and I don't think any thrash fan wouldn't like this album. In previous reviews the only complaint I ever heard was Scott's vocals. I never understood it, Scott's voice is very unique and fit the music real well (sort of a mix of Bobby Blitz and Steve Souza). This time his vocals should cause those nay sayers to put their foot in their mouth with the power and aggressiveness of his vocals this time around (now he sounds similar to Obituary's John Tardy while maintaining his unique voice).

One For All: Great Overkill-like opening that starts the album off in grand thrash fasion. 4/5

Exonerate: Keeps the aggressiveness going while maintaining good melody. 4/5

Death Wish: Another great thrash song (notice a pattern here). 4/5

Blood Covenant: Still nothing to complain about. The guitar solos are even better this time around (it's nice for thrash guitarists to slow down now and then) and the melody is more noticable here. 4.5/5

Heart Of Metal: One of the best songs on this album. Awesome double bass work right before the chorus with lyrics that makes this a metal anthem of the highest order (I rank this with Toxic Waltz which is one of my favorite thrash songs ever). 5/5

Wrathchild: Great cover of an Iron Maiden classic with guitar solos that run you over like an semi-truck. 4.5/5

Transgressor: Not as great as the three before it but still a very solid thrash song. 3.5/5

Blink: A re-recording of a song origionally found on Symphonic Extremeties. Quite better than the origional which is no easy task (it's superiority is probably due to the better production). 4.5/5

Blind Faith: Another great thrash piece with lyrics that put a broad smile on this Christian's face. Guitarist Robert Gutierrez has no idea how to do a bad guitar solo. 4.5/5

Into The Pit: Hands down the best track on the entire album. This instrumental ranks up there with Metallica's Orion. Gutierrez shows that he is more than a one-dimentional thrash guitarist (he should be up there with the greats based on this song alone-superb solo). 5/5

Game Over: Another great thrash piece and a good way to close an album that should rank up there with the biggest names in thrash...nay, metal. 4/5
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Great review, Michael! - The instrumental comment is a bit over rated though.. Laughing
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Mglaffas81 wrote:
Great review, Michael! - The instrumental comment is a bit over rated though.. Laughing

Not to me. As far as I'm concerned that is the single best song on the album. But hey, different strokes for different folkes.
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Thanks for the review bro. Glad you like the album so much.

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Mglaffas81 wrote:
Great review, Michael! - The instrumental comment is a bit over rated though.. Laughing

seconded its a great album
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Hey Dallas, you should add your review to HeavensMetal.com

http://www.heavensmetal.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=20134&CDName=Into+the+Pit

Actually, you might really dig this site as you can freely comment on any album listed.

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ultmetal wrote:
Hey Dallas, you should add your review to HeavensMetal.com

http://www.heavensmetal.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=20134&CDName=Into+the+Pit

Actually, you might really dig this site as you can freely comment on any album listed.

ult

He's gonna have to boil it down to 500 characters or less (not 500 words, 500 characters!) if he wants to post it there, cuz that's the size limit for messages.

Cool site though. I've posted tons of reviews there since I first discovered it some years back.

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I've added a bunch of CDs to both BrutalMetal.com and to HeavensMetal.com over the years. Added a few more in the last couple days.

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I sent your review to Retroactive. Thanks bro.

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Hey Dallas,
I noticed that Retroactive Records added your review to CDBaby.

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ultmetal wrote:
Hey Dallas,
I noticed that Retroactive Records added your review to CDBaby.

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Cool, thanks for getting the ball rolling. That was my first REAL album review and I wasn't sure how it was going to be received but this is a good sign.
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