5/7/2023 0 Comments Those who remain hardcoreaircraft are continuing to bomb Taliban trenches near the front lines. But those tanks had not advanced before nightfall. A column of tanks also was deployed on a road leading into Kondoz as Northern Alliance artillery fired on Taliban defenses. The Northern Alliance troops began moving toward the city on foot and in trucks early this afternoon. Later, I instructed them to pull back from these positions in order to prevent fighting until the end of negotiations " Since the areas were vacated, our forces took up their positions. Most are thought to be moderates Taliban fighters: "About 200 Taliban soldiers on one front and 300 on another front surrendered to us today. Northern Alliance Deputy Defense Minister General Atiqullah Baryalai told RFE/RL that a total of about 500 Taliban fighters abandoned their defensive positions around Kondoz to surrender today. Prague, 22 November 2001 (RFE/RL) - Anti-Taliban forces today advanced toward the last Taliban stronghold in Northern Afghanistan - the encircled city of Kondoz. At the same time, hardcore Taliban fighters, pro-Taliban foreigners, and members of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network were still manning defensive posts within the encirclement after dark. But there are conflicting reports about a surrender deal. However, one or two songs do sound like filler, as if the band said “I don’t like the number nine let’s try to record at least a couple more songs.Some 500 Taliban fighters reportedly surrendered today at Kondoz - the militia's last northern stronghold - and Northern Alliance troops advanced on the besieged city. Well, it’s tough to find anything not to like about The Cursed. “Gee Drew, don’t you have anything critical to say?” Other bangers include the spastic energy of Blood Red Sun, the haunting and eerie dirge of Skullz Out (Rot in Pieces), and Be Up On It, no less than a musical kick to the face. This gives the band an element of catchiness lost on many other metallic-hardcore bands out today. Williams has one of those perfectly raspy voices, as if his voice box was tailor-made for heavy music. Loveless* is a fantastic opener with its heavy groove and Tim Williams’ signature combination of vicious screams and mid-range clean vocals. Vision of Disorder has taken their sound and packed The Cursed with a feast of winning tracks. Vision of Disorder manages to pull off this balancing act brilliantly, sounding relevant and fresh, while still sounding like…well… Vision of Disorder. While I thought Earth Crisis’ To The Death and Neutralize the Threat were both kickass hardcore albums (all they really needed to be), they sounded a little too much like the bands they influenced, rather than themselves. To make a successful comeback album, a band needs to do two things- retain their signature sound, but avoid simply regurgitating their past work. And after listening to The Cursed Remain Cursed, I can already praise it as one of the essential releases of 2012. Since I was too young to know them in the 90’s, this frees me up from any sort of true-fan-elitism about their early releases (awesome as they are) that plagued the band when they tried to do new things. This goes for hard-rock as well, as 2001’s From Bliss to Devastation easily crushes any of the inane garbage that gets peddled as “hard-rock” today. I felt outraged at the lack of recognition they receive in hardcore circles when compared to their 90’s contemporaries. I’ll admit with some embarrassment that it wasn’t until I read Sergeant D’s enthusiastic endorsement that I even knew who they were. Aside from Acid Bath, I don’t think I’ve heard any other bands do this so well. In one band you get the riffing of extreme metal, the aggression of hardcore, and the raw anger of 90’s grunge. For someone who likes heavy music in all its forms, Vision of Disorder really is the best of all worlds.
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