3 Inches of Blood, Fugazi, Ministry, and more
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Some new writing up - at Metal Injection, I have reviews of film buffs/metalcore-rs Killwhitneydead and Relapse retro thrashers Dekapitator. At Stylus, I have a look back at Fugazi's most underrated record, Steady Diet of Nothing, as well as reviews of the Speed Kills...Again compilation on Heavy Artillery, metal-obsessed rapper Necro, falsetto-fueled 3 Inches of Blood, Ministry's final album (that cover of The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues" is unbelievably banging), Xasthur's excellent latest mopefest, and Bloody Panda, who actually sound like their name - slow, fuzzy, wounded.
3 Inches of Blood - Night MaraudersMinistry - Roadhouse BluesXasthur - Cemetery of Shattered Masks
I would never have forecast this, but 3 Inches of Blood's Fire Up the Blades is my favorite metal album this year. Their last record was OK, but they seriously stepped it up this time. I have not had this much fun with metal in a long, long time. Every time I hear this album, goats and invisible oranges start flying and one-man moshpits erupt in my apartment. This is the kind of music that leads to unwise, impulsive tattoos. I'm no danger of being like the guy who got Ken Susi's face tattooed on his ass - but I'm just sayin'.
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I've been enjoying the album for quite some time as well. Actually, I jst saw them the other night, and was struck by just how strong the new songs sounded when stacked up against the older material. Granted, I was already aware of how substantial an improvement the new album is over Advance and Vanquish, but in a live setting, a song like "The Goatriders Horde" absolutely killed in a live setting, rendering a crowd-pleaser like "Deadly Sinners" flaccid in the process. I was floored.
I absolutely love that 3 Inches of Blood record, and it was actually your Stylus review that turned me on to it. I immediately regress about 15 years whenever I put it on.
Haven't followed 3 Inches of Blood as closely as I perhaps should have, but dude, that new Xasthur is FAR from "excellent"! I think I made it through five songs before I gave up. So boring. The last one was mediocre as well, but at least a few songs grabbed me there. I haven't enjoyed much of his output in recent years, and really am starting to find him to be one of the most inexplicably overrated American black metal acts out there. I guess I don't "get it"...
Andrew, I was likewise underwhelmed by Subliminal Genocide and given Xasthur's super-prolific output, I felt he was over-exposed. Then I heard this new record, and it convinced me. He has something special going on. The real drums seal the deal for me. The record's a grower, but it's quite a headphone experience.
Need this???
ULVER - SHADOWS OF THE SUN (2007)
Tracklist
1. Eos
2. All the Love
3. Like Music
4. Vigil
5. Shadows of the Sun
6. Let the Children Go
7. Solitude (Black Sabbath cover)
8. Funebre
9. What Happened?
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Very good piece on Steady Diet of Nothing. Well constructed, thought out and robust.
IO,
I immensely "enjoyed" Subliminal Genocide and I'm always looking forwards to new material from Conner.
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