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NAPALM DEATH / COALESCE – In Tongues we Speak
Don’t know why I always put off picking this up. I love ND,
love Coalesce… murp. So I drove up to Looney Tunes for Record Store Day and
there was a fucking line to get in to the place. Fucking amateur hour. Luckily
it was less crazy @ High Fidelity records. Saw some decent Birthday Party
vinyl, but it was a bit pricey for something I probably wouldn’t even play for
fear of damaging it. anyway, this is the weird mid-90s period ND sound that’s
good only some of the time. Also it’s one of those splits where tracks
alternate between the bands. It works here cause the bands sound so different.
This is a short one.
Favorite tracks: Napalm Death – “Food Chains”, Coalesce –
“Harvest of Maturity”
ARSIS – a Diamond for Disease
I’m not really a huge fan of this band, but I dig this
record cause the dude wrote it after his fiancé broke off their engagement, and
I’m a sucker for well-written jilted-lover tunes. The title track is this
tremendous tech-death tirade that’s bitter without being misogynistic. Last
summer I basically wrote enough lyrics for a double album that are coming from
a similar headspace. For the last 15 years especially, Women have been and
continue to be perhaps my greatest source of fascination and frustration. But
you don’t wanna hear about that. Another reason I like this album is that it’s
only 3 songs long. It’s also pretty heavy, which a lot of tech-bands lose in
the race to out-complicate each other. And it’s on Willowtip, and by now you
know the pussy boner I have for that label. I was reading some article about
how mehulehds are prone to depression. There’s a crack in the floor from where
it got hit by my jaw. Most mehulehds are the whiniest whiners that ever whined.
They act all hard and scary whenever you bring up deer-in-a-pen targets like
Justin Bieber, but show them some footage of GG Allin eating his feces and they
turn into sniveling little bitch boys. Total Proto-Bronies. There’s also an
Alice Cooper cover on here. “Roses on White Lace”. That’s pretty sweet. “the
Promise of Never”. Awwwwwwww. Did shomebody get der feewingsh huuurwt? I know I
did. OHHHH.
Favorite Tracks: “a Diamond for Disease”, “The Promise of
Never”.
DANZIG – Thrall/Demonsweatlive
HuhAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!. I’m pretty sure I had a copy of this
once, but it’s long gone, so I picked up to fill the hole in my Danzig
collection. I have the DVD that has like four versions of the video for
“IsCuhminDOW”, each with varying degrees of genital mutilation. Such a cool
track. One of my favorites from him. “AHL ON FAR IN THE NEIGH O GLOR”. I love this period of the Danzig band (93 –
96). Morose comic book S&M goodness. Probably the last time he sounded
truly inspired. And yes, I’m even talking about the much maligned Blackacidevil, but more on that in a
minute. “the Violet Fire” is pretty mighty, too. I do sort of still find the
little fella charming in a way. he’s basically been a moody teenager trapped in
a stout, musclebound body for his adulthood. Sort of like a living He-Man
action figure. I love that he publishes these goofy comic books filled with
tits and demons and murder and foul language, trying so hard to be edgy and
“adult” that they become almost adorable. I love that he thinks werewolves are
real because he read about them in a book once. I love that he won’t own up to
be a white supremacist or separatist. I love that he pretends to be a martial
artist. I LOVE the Twin Peaks steel guitars on this
version of “Sistinas”. Oh, and fuck that
twat muffin from North Side Kings for milking the whole “I Punched Danzig”
thing. Wow, you threw a sloppy punch at a 50 year old man and knocked him down
for a second. oh, and you wrote a book about it? you know what Danzig
wrote? “Hybrid Moments”. You lose.
Favorite Tracks: “It’s Coming Down”, “Snakes of Christ”, “Am
I Demon”, “Sistinas”
DANZIG – Blackacidevil
And here’s the one we all decided to hate. Lately though,
I’ve come around to it. maybe my increased appreciation of industrial and
electronic music has something to do with that. Maybe it’s because I just like
the vibe of this album. He basically wrote his version of a 1990s rivet head
sort of album. The lyrics are also some of his darkest… pretty sure most of
these songs are about rape and bondage. Most of the stuff on Danzig 4 was about that, too… but your average “rock” fan isn’t picking
up on that, cause all they wanna do Is bang their head and yell to the chorus.
I respect Danzig for going against his perceived “type”
and reconnecting with the spirit of the post-Misfits project Samhain (still my
favorite stuff from him). Where Misfits was a jolly b-movie, Samhain was ritualistically
bleak . Where Danzig 1-4 were power rock crowd pleasers
hinting at something darker, Blackacidevil
was a sinisterly confrontational audience hater that makes the listener
work for his enjoyment. Keeping in step with the persistent lyrical themes of
sadomasochism and eroticized confinement, the music puts you through the paces,
forcing you to listen through the shock to find the heart of it all. Even the
groups of the time that this record was lumped in with (Ministry, NIN, White
Zombie, and their countless clownshoe copycats) either only whisper at such an
experience or remain ignorant to such an experience, falling back on MTV
friendly sound bites. don't expect anyone to agree with me on this one, but that's alright. I still have a t-shirt of this album, but it is HUGE. It
says XL, but really it’s an XXXL. The sleeves go past my elbows. it’s
definitely the kind of shirt you’d want your petite one-night stand to wear in
the morning. I have a thing for tiny girls with bedhead wearing nothing but
giant shirts.
Favorite Tracks: “7th House”, “See All You Were”,
“Hint of her Blood”, “Come to Silver’,
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