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              Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
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Artist...............: Anata
Album................: Under A Stone With No Inscription
Genre................: Technical Death Metal
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2004
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy   (Secure mode) & Pioneer DVD-ROM DVR-109
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.0 20070715
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 77 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: Recorded @ Studiomega, Sweden. 
			     Produced by Fredrik Schalin. 
			     Engineered and Mixed by Anata and Christian Silver. 
			     Mastered @ Digitalfabriken by Tomas Ferngren. 
			     Record Label: Wicked World.

Ripped by............: shogun on 1/7/2009
Posted by............: shogun on 1/7/2009
News Server..........: news.astraweb.com
News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.metal / alt.binaries.sounds.lossless

Included.............: NFO, SFV, PLS, M3U, LOG, PAR v2, CUE


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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:03:49) Anata - Shackled To Guilt
   2. (00:03:48) Anata - A Problem Yet To Be Solved
   3. (00:04:06) Anata - Entropy Within
   4. (00:04:40) Anata - Dance To The Song Of Apathy
   5. (00:04:31) Anata - Sewerages Of The Mind
   6. (00:03:21) Anata - Built On Sand
   7. (00:05:57) Anata - Under The Debris
   8. (00:03:57) Anata - The Drowning
   9. (00:03:45) Anata - Leaving The Spirit Behind
  10. (00:07:09) Anata - Any Kind Of Magic Or Miracle

Playing Time.........: 00:45:02
Total Size...........: 349.59 MB

NFO generated on.....: 1/7/2009 3:22:28 AM


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Review from: www.metal-archives.com

Unbelievably everlasting - 99%
Written by ozzeh on August 26th, 2007

Where the 'Conductor's Departure' took a slower, deliberate approach to 
Anata's unique death metal sound, "Under a Stone..." speeds things up a bit 
and revels in technical insanity. Allenmark and Schalin are truly the epitome of 
21st century guitar playing. I don't say that lightly and I truly believe that 
they are in fact the "chosen ones" on guitar if you will. Never mind the fact 
that the bass playing and drumming trounces nearly every 'technical' or death 
metal album known to man kind, every Anata album is all about the guitars.

The production is crystal clear and brings out the best in each musician. Music 
this technically insane must be technically proficient in the production 
department and thankfully Anata, Immolation, and Benighted all realize this. 
The vocals are very fierce and there aren't any clean sung vocals at all: just 
death metal. The vocals are very fitting for this kind of music... no other 
vocal approach would ever work.

The rhythms are just fucking sick. Right when you think you finally 
understand where a song is progressing to, Anata hits you with another 
super technical yet beautiful guitar arpeggio sweep or some other form of 
scalar [CENSORED] the likes of which you're unlikely to ever hear anywhere else. 
Ever.

Of course any 'technical' band can hide their lack of songwriting skills behind a 
collage of never ending sweeps (Necrophagist, Psycroptic, etc) -- and while I 
certainly respect these bands for what they do, the fact is Anata shits upon 
their altar.

The lyrics are surprisingly intellectually stimulating with songs such as "A 
Problem Yet to Be Solved" summing up my personal disdain for Christianity in 
a 4 minute masterpiece. The drumming on this release by Conny is nothing 
short of mesmerizing as it is every bit as technical as the guitar playing -- 
which as I already mentioned, is quite simply, unbeatable. Henry Drake's bass 
playing is absolutely essential to this bands' success as well because the low 
end is clearly audible and integral with the convoluted riffs.

Certainly this is one of the best technical, progressive, brutal death metal 
albums ever. And it's from Sweden; go figure. Don't let anyone dissuade you 
from ever listening to this.

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Review from: www.metal-archives.com

One of the best albums I've ever heard... - 99%
Written by Etiam on November 3rd, 2005

...one of my top 3 all time.

It is not uncommon for a reviewer to be so zealously appreciative of an album 
that the reader just loses interest, because the fanboy writing style is 
painfully obvious, and the chances of an objective review are slim to none.

I'm trying to avoid that here, but it's very difficult. This album is honestly one 
of (if not the) best death metal albums I've ever come across. It's also one of 
the longest lasting albums at the top of my rotation. I'll burn through an 
album in a couple days, and not come back to it for months, having listened 
to it as much as I can without getting bored.
Anata never bores me. These guys are brilliant, plain and simple.

Each song is crafted with not only creativity and inspiration, but restraint. 
Despite the brutal tendencies of some of these songs, they don't flail about 
unnecessarily. This album is calculated and economical. A well-oiled machine 
that crushes your skull with just the right number of double-fisted whacks. 
The last album from these Swedes was also very mechanical, but it lacked the 
spirit of this album. The first album was the opposite- filled with spirit but a bit 
too raw. Combining the best of those two worlds, the product is lethal.

Each song has its fair share of blasting and chugging death metal riffs with 
competent but not overdone growlings. Then, unexpectedly and sometimes 
unobserved on the first few spins, a segue or fantastic and subtle riff slides 
into the structure of the song, changing its form and dynamic. A Problem Yet 
To Be Solved is a perfect example. Listening to this song morph from classic 
Anata technicality into a new, beautiful, and flowing form is fascinating.

Perhaps my favorite part about this album is how diverse it is without slapping 
you in the face about it. Elements of Gothenber, grind, straight up balls out 
blastbeats, technical "math" riffing, the shredding arpeggios. It's all here, but 
it's all woven into a distinctly Anata sound, making this one of the most 
diverse but also easily identifiable records I've come across.

And this is all before the last track, which is absolutely stunning. I'd lay down 
the money for this album if all I got was that last song. If you ever wanted to 
know how to write an epic death metal song while avoiding the sloppy or 
pretentious stigmas that bands like Nile get, listen to Any Kind of Magic Or 
Miracle. If you're paying attention, you'll be floored.

Each other song on this album fufills its purpose, and then some. There are 
no wasted tracks, no wasted lines, no wasted riffs, no silly interludes. This is 
heavy. This is metal. This is class. This is talent.
This is fucking Anata.

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Review from: www.metal-archives.com

This has an inscrption alright: Awesome - 90%
Written by Justin_Bork on January 3rd, 2005

Anata has always been something unique and awesome, and with Under a 
Stone With No Inscription, they just get better. This is a Technical Death 
Metal album, featuring a whole boat load of time signatures, tricky and 
complex riffs, with some fairly off timing drumming. Sounds alot like other 
bands on paper but it really isn't, this album is especially awesome. Killer 
brutal and thoughtful material, excellent performances and stellar production, 
one can't stress enough how exceptional the production is. Every instrument 
sounds perfect in the mix. The guitars are loud and winding, the vocals are 
just the right volume, and the drum sound is excellent. Song wise, has a few 
minor weakspots, and the best songs seem to have been placed at the 
albums forefront, but still, this is awesome Death Metal and shouldn't be 
missed.

Everything about this album sounds professional, this is, afterall a veteran 
band, and it shows in their sound. These guys know what they're doing. I see 
this as a modern Death Metal masterpeice, technical, brutal and interesting. 
Highly recommended for fans of Death Metal.

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