Title: Compression 1 - Celtic Frost 0
Product review: It is really a shame what they are doing to records these days. This otherwise very good music has been completely compressed to death. Not a little bit, we're talking completely straight line. This moronic pursuit of loudness is killing the sound. The drums and cymbals are wrecked on this disc. It makes me angry because there's nothing you can do to fix it. There's a very clear reason why modern metal albums don't hold up as well as their older generation counterparts. It's because of the crummy recording techniques they are using. You don't want to turn these albums up nice and loud because there's no power there, the music has nowhere to go, it's completely flattened. Compression does not equal heaviness, it just fatigues the ears. This music deserves better than this abuse.
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