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- From: Phil.Powell@launchpad.unc.edu (Phil Powell)
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- Subject: SOAE Update
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 05:33:17 GMT
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- ALBUM REVIEWS (I said I would do it so here goes!):
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- Tourniquet, "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance" (Intense)
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- What an incredible album! I cannot honestly get over it and won't for a
- long time! This is Tourniquet's third release and by far their best! Gone
- are the high-pitched King Diamond-style squeaky vocals of singer Guy
- Ritter as he now goes lower and developing more power in his delivery.
- VERY VERY complex rhythmic flow persists and persists throughout each
- tune, each radically different from the rest, and showing some of the most
- diverse musical influences possibly in the history of heavy metal! For
- example, "Exoskeletons" has a driving Megadeth-style rhythm to it (note
- the Black Sabbath musical score at the end of the song), while the song
- before it, "Incommensurate", sounds like a Metallica/Slayer/down-pitched
- Carcass mix... and then there's "Phantom Limb", like mixing Al DeMeola's
- jazzier lines with the Galactic Cowboys, and the title track, "Pathogenic
- Ocular Dissonance" which goes from a heavy, slow deliberate drumbeat a la
- mid-80s power metal to... grindcore, and that's just ONE SONG! And to top
- it all off, Tourniquet has once again fiddled with the medical dictionary
- for these trippy song titles: "Impending Embolism"; "Ruminating
- Virulence", "Spectrophobic Dementia" (they tuned this one tune to D!), the
- title track, and the classic song title possibly of all time: "Gelatinous
- Tuburcles of Purulent Ossification" (including a sampling of a Hero III
- robot!)
-
- Did I say get this album? Well, unless you're afraid of trying new and
- mind-bending experiences, get this album while you still go to malls for a
- purpose (i.e. before Christmas ends)...
-
- Living Sacrifice, "Nonexistent" (R.E.X.)
-
- I'll get this overwith: WHY WOULDN'T R.E.X. LET THEM HAVE SCOTT BURNS???
- I'm sorry, Mr. Mann, you're good at producing alternative but leave the
- death metal alone! Or get Scott Burns to do it, let him mix one of YOUR
- RECORD LABEL'S BANDS right.
-
- (The mail should be coming real soon on that comment alone! heh)
-
- Aside from the weak production the album is undeniably awesome! It takes a
- lot of getting used to, I mean, how many Christian death metal bands DO
- you know? Very well-played, down to the staccato guitar picking and rhythm
- variance (in short, it's not just one long grindcore beat). For those of
- you who were expecting Living Sacrifice to once again sound like Slayer,
- well, in the words of Denis Leary: WRONG!!!! Serious and sincere mixes of
- Entombed, Unleashed and Gorguts can be found in their tunes, and vocalist
- DJ sounds much more frightening than before.. the remix of "Haven of
- Blasphemy" is so different you wouldn't know they played that song years
- before! Another album you have to buy folks, I must say!
-
- Under Midnight, "Under Midnight" (Wonderland/Epic)
-
- This stuff is different! I mean, it took a lot of getting used to cuz at
- times it'll be sincere heavy industrial with thick guitars (a la
- Believer's Kurt Bachman), but then it'll lapse into a near-rave sounding
- stuff that I cannot get into. I wish they'd go rave or go brutal
- industrial (like Godflesh), just make up your minds! The entire album is
- a concept album complete with printed libretto for you to read and follow
- along a bizarre futuristic tale of 2 young people caught in a world
- without God, trapped in "virtual reality" and "The Way"... cyberpunk
- fanatics would most benefit from the exchange; the rest of humanity would
- be completely confused until the end when they benefit from the desire of
- the girl Jamie's heart to turn from "The Way" (the song "Yes I Am")..
-
- Brutal bangers like myself will not enjoy this album completely, but
- cyberpunksters just might. It's worth a try.
-
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- End of reviews
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- Phil
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