The Quill - Hooray! It's a Deathtrip (2003)

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When you think about it, the Quill is a somewhat ironic name for this Swedish stoner rock/alternative metal band. A quill is something that a porcupine uses to prick its victim. But the Quill isn't among the more confrontational bands in post-'80s metal; while many of the death metal/black metal, grindcore, rap-metal, and metalcore bands that emerged in the '90s or early 2000s are downright ferocious, the Quill is decidedly melodic - loud, forceful, and aggressive, certainly, but not hammer-to-the-skull ferocious and not brutal for the sake of brutality. In fact, the Swedes' fourth full-length album, Hooray! It's a Death Trip, is among the more musical alt-metal discs of 2003.

Melody isn't a mere afterthought on this CD; it's an integral part of what the Quill does, and the Scandinavian headbangers provide an album that is very song-oriented as opposed to simply riff-oriented. That isn't to say riffs are unimportant to them, only that they put just as much thought into their melodies. Their riffs and melodies both owe a huge debt to the metal and psychedelic hard rock of late '60s and '70s; instead of offering the sort of chug-chug riffs that are a big part of alternative metal, the Quill gets a lot of inspiration from Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Mountain, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, and Deep Purple.

But at the same time, Hooray! It's a Death Trip isn't an exact replica of albums from the Richard Nixon years; the Quill has enough Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Kyuss, and grunge influence to be relevant to the modern alt-metal scene. The Quill is hardly the most original band in the world, but in terms of craftsmanship, the Swedes deliver the goods on this solid and worthwhile, if derivative, outing.

~ by Alex Henderson, allmusic.com
Tracklist:

1. Spinning Around - 04:39
2. Nothing Ever Changes - 04:53
3. Come What May - 04:02
4. Too Close To The Sun - 05:25
5. Handful of Flies - 04:59
6. American Powder - 03:55
7. Hammerhead - 05:28
8. Giver - 04:23
9. Man Posed - 06:00
10. Because I'm God - 03:16
11. Control - 05:14

EAC extraction logfile

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 6. April 2009, 13:26

The Quill / Hooray! It's A Deathtrip

Used drive : SONY DVD RW AW-G170A Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

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2 | 4:39.73 | 4:53.64 | 20998 | 43036
3 | 9:33.62 | 4:02.39 | 43037 | 61225
4 | 13:36.26 | 5:25.32 | 61226 | 85632
5 | 19:01.58 | 4:59.09 | 85633 | 108066
6 | 24:00.67 | 3:55.42 | 108067 | 125733
7 | 27:56.34 | 5:28.61 | 125734 | 150394
8 | 33:25.20 | 4:23.51 | 150395 | 170170
9 | 37:48.71 | 6:00.25 | 170171 | 197195
10 | 43:49.21 | 3:16.42 | 197196 | 211937
11 | 47:05.63 | 5:14.19 | 211938 | 235506


Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\Music\The Quill - Hooray! It's A Deathtrip.wav

Peak level 98.8 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC EBEE117A
Copy CRC EBEE117A
Copy OK

No errors occurred


AccurateRip summary

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Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [F2B1296E]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [392F9FA4]
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Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [205AA5C4]
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [F3031D0B]

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

auCDtect

auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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Processing file: [The Quill - Hooray! It's A Deathtrip.wav]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.066385e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.515573e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.138208e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.477041e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.152500e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 3.915049e-002
First order smothness: 4.270461e-001
Second order smothness: 5.987044e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 99%

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Final Conclusion:
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These tracks looks like CDDA with probability 100%

wavcrc32

EAC wavcrc32 v0.22 © ]DichlofoS[ Systems, 2007
thanx to: BakLAN, siro and other beta-testers/contributors!
file opened ok
RIFF header checked ok
please wait while couning checksums…
processing 138478116 samples…
file closed ok
–- used in EAC:
generic: grabbing, "no use…" off [all bytes] : EBEE117A.
generic: grabbing, "no use…" on [word nulsamples l/r] : D7B40096.
waveditor [word nulsamples l] : 24F60481.
–- no used in EAC, only for reference:
byte ignore zeros : 284BFF69.
dword nulsamples : 4FED3380.
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time elapsed: 41953 ms

The Quill are:
Magnus Ekwall - Vocals
Christian Carlsson - Guitar
Roger Nilsson - Bass
Jolle Atlagic - Drums

Recorded by Rickard Bengtssen at SlaughterHouse Studio, Halmstad, Sweden.
Mixed by Daniel Bergstrand at Dug-Out Studio, Uppsala, Sweden.

lossless* (wv, 360Mb):
http://rapidshare.com/files/218061839/TQLL03HIADLOS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/218061280/TQLL03HIADLOS.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/218069851/TQLL03HIADLOS.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/218070419/TQLL03HIADLOS.part4.rar

mp3 (cbr320, 130Mb):
http://rapidshare.com/files/218074430/TQLL03HIADMP3.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/218077541/TQLL03HIADMP3.part2.rar

covers (600pdi, 45Mb):
http://rapidshare.com/files/218058167/TQLL03HIADCOV.rar

* - EAC Image, standard LOG, embedded cuesheet, Foobar2000 ready