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Local Review: Late Night Sleep T.V. – Self-Titled
Late Night Sleep T.V. Self-Titled Croakfrog Records Late Night Sleep T.V. = Gary Numan + Staring at the Sea + Blondie + Rope or Bullets + Ladytron Hot Paul Michael of Downers and Corleones fame is Late Night Sleep T.V., detouring from garage towards dance in this, his solo stuff. Was 80s post-punk with gothfabulous
Local Review: My Band – Long Long Time
My Band Long Long Time My Band = Danzig + Deep Purple + Motörhead This is an awesome album musically; vocals sound like Jimi Hendrix + Lemmy, and the dirty guitarwork is a cross between classic rock and metal. Its major and fatal flaw is that almost every song sounds the same. I mean,
Local Review: Royal Bliss – After the Chaos II
Royal Bliss After the Chaos II Air Castle Records Royal Bliss = Vertical Horizon + P.O.D. For how many people can’t stand Royal Bliss, they sure show up the hatahs with After the Chaos II. Sure, Royal Bliss come from a surefire mainstream perspective, but how. This album has more catchy hooks than an 18th-century
Local Review: Sound Lab – Eat Your Pets
Sound Lab Eat Your Pets Sound Lab = NIN + The Bad Plus + Cat Stevens They experimental ambience was passable in the first three tracks, but really picks up in “Toy Box,” where toy percussion, discordant, creepy guitar, maggot-moulting clicking sounds and beautiful cello blend together—a perfect soundtrack to falling asleep clutching your dead mother’s
Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Self-Titled
Twilight Transmissions Self-titled Nova One Twilight Transmissions = 23 Extacy + Philip K. Dick All-instrumental industrial annihilation brought to you by Chris Alvarado of 23 Extacy is all pleasure, no pain. Calculated repetition saturates the drone with sophistication. Everything on TT has been thought out as carefully as a Scrabble championship game, from its
Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort
Violet Run Trouver la Mort Violet Run = The Cure + The Shroud + Love Spirals Downward Violet Run skirts the fine line between sorrowful sincerity and fancy-pants whininess dangerously, but for the most part, are able to stick to the realm of the earnest. They’re a bit over the top, but it’s hard
Review: God Dethroned – Lair Of The White Worm
GOD DETHRONED LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM Metal Blade God Dethroned = Behemoth + Krisiun + Hate Eternal + Seance From the Netherlands, God Dethroned have been at it for over ten years now. Their first album, Christhunt, was released if I remember correctly in 1992, and received some minimal praise in the newly
Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh
MORTICIAN RE-ANIMATED DEAD FLESH Mortician Records Mortician = Do you really need this? Okay- Cannibal Corpse + Napalm Death + Incantation The seventh album from the Relapse Records-professed “World’s Heaviest Band” is unleashed upon the world! Imagine tuning your guitar so low it sounds like a low-tuned bass, and your bass tuning is so
Review: Carpathian Forest – We’re Going To Hollywood For This...
CARPATHIAN FOREST WE’RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR THIS DVD Seasons of Mist Carpathian Forest = Satyricon + Dark Throne + Bethlehem + Dissection From Norway, Carpathian Forest play black metal. Not interested yet? What about seeing them live? Still not interested? What about the nude dancers they have come out on stage during every
Review: Venomous Concept – Retroactive Abortion
Venomous Concept Retroactive Abortion Venomous Concept’s album Retroactive Abortion has received mediocre to poor reviews in magazines larger than SLUG. I doubt any writers from those magazines spent their youth in rural Utah County searching for anything weird or obnoxious to counterbalance daily threats from rabid hicks. I don’t think anyone who looks for “pop