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Just received World Domination today through US Amazon. Ripped it to Flac, analyzed it with ReplayGain, and noticed a disturbing -14dB for the album! I opened it up in Audacity, and it confirmed that the album is pretty severely over compressed and clipped. The band is great, but whoever mixed it brutalized it pretty hard in the studio. Pretty much a textbook definition of "brickwalling" a CD. It makes the tracks bland and noisy. Severely lacking in clarity and punch.
Whoever did this to the album should be fired. They don't know what they're doing, and shouldn't be allowed to mix music. The only other album I have that is compressed as bad as this is Death Magnetic by Metallica. Not even a death metal album should pull up a ReplayGain worse than -12dB!
I noticed that the version I received is the Japan Underground release. I'm wondering if perhaps they applied additional compression and gain to "appeal to foreign markets". Could anyone with a Japanese Nippon Crown release run a quick replaygain analysis on it to see if there is any difference? If there's a difference I'll definitely import a Japanese version.
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