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- ...presents... cDc core #6
- original album reviews
- by The Pusher
-
- >>> a cDc publication.......1991 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
- ______________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- A few notes:
-
- (1) Does anyone read this? Call Demon Roach Underground and let me know.
-
- (2) Looking back at previous cDc cores, some of the reviews are pretty crappy,
- writing-wise, and opinion-wise. There's a lot of stuff that I hated at first,
- but now I really dig. (UNDERDOG, for example.) I think you'll find that these
- are the best written reviews yet, hopefully they'll be interesting even if you
- don't have the records.
-
- (3) In the last cDc core, I said JUDGE has two ex-Youth of Today members in the
- band, Sammy on drums, and Porcell on guitar. (In case you didn't remember,
- Revelation reminded you via a sticker on the album.) Actually, JUDGE has THREE
- ex-Youth of Today members! Singer Mike played drums with YOT for a short time.
- He played on The Way It Is compilation. JUDGE broke up anyway, so who gives a
- fuck?
-
- (4) If you're responding to #1. Do you want to see other types of music here?
- Sub Pop? Amphetamine Reptile? "Alternative Metal" (FAITH NO MORE, PRONG, MIND
- OVER FOUR, etc...)? I've been listening to some different stuff recently.
-
- (5) The video store where I worked is now a pile of ashes, as a result of a
- mysterious fire. So I'm a little short on cash. So what's the point?
- #7 might not be out for a long time.
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- BAD RELIGION: Against The Grain (Epitaph)
-
- A new album already! It seems like "No Control" just came out. Anyway,
- with this album, these guys further establish themselves as the greatest punk
- band in the whole world. Somehow they manage to get each album to sound better
- than the last. They keep progressing (refining is a better word) without going
- metal or pop. Bad Religion are known for using big words, but they go nuts on
- this album. "Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease, the swath
- endogenous of ourselves and rested in its lea." I think it's safe to say that
- if you don't like Bad Religion, you don't like punk. As far as the live show
- goes, they were the best band I saw in 1990.
-
-
- INSTED: What We Believe (Epitaph)
-
- I don't really buy a lot of SE records, but I do know that Insted is one
- of the biggest SE bands in California right now. While all the current SE
- bands have heavy chunky guitars and multiple mosh parts, Insted have an older
- fast 7 SECONDS style, free of mosh parts. The songs pretty much fly by,
- nothing really stands out. Despite the lack of creativity, I'd probably have a
- lot of fun at one of their shows. This album isn't really good or bad, just
- boring.
-
-
- LIMBOMANIACS: Stinky Grooves (In-Effect)
-
- With the success of the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, funk is getting really big.
- A lot of people say that these new funk/metal bands are just second-rate Chili
- Pepper rip-offs, but Limbomaniacs definitely have a unique style. First, this
- is straight funk, there's really no major guitar riffs. Second, there are
- keyboards and horns, so this really sounds a lot more in the vein of
- PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC. (Bootsy Collins sings on the first song, "Butt
- Funkin".) Third, the vocals are done in a standard rap style, and there's a
- lot of sampling going on. So what you get is a very "danceable" record that
- should appeal to many different types of people.
-
-
- QUICKSAND 7" (Revelation)
-
- In my humble opinion, this four song record is the best thing Revelation
- has ever put out so far, even with the tacky cover. It's basically a hardcore
- "supergroup". Drummer Alan Cage, currently in BURN (Revelation 7" out soon),
- bassist Sergio (x-COLLAPSE), guitarist Tom Capone (guy who played all the leads
- on SHELTER Lp and BOLD 7"), and singer Walter Schreifels (x-YOT), currently
- guitarist for GORILLA BISCUITS. This is not really hardcore, but high energy
- 90's rock. (As opposed to retro-sludge 70's Sub Pap.) Most hardcore bands
- that have major musical ability end up in cheeze-metal land (WARZONE, REST IN
- PIECES, etc...), but Quicksand manage to avoid it. The music is riffy, slow
- and crunchy, but the guitars are sharp, not fuzzy. Good raspy emo-vocals also.
-
-
- SAMHAIN: Final Descent (Caroline)
-
- As we all know, SAMHAIN was Glenn "666=$$$" Danzig's band after THE
- MISFITS. SAMHAIN released two mediocre albums and then Glenn took the bass
- player from SAMHAIN ("Errie Von") and started DANZIG. The first side of this
- album is 5 unreleased songs. Glenn not only sings but plays guitar, drums, and
- keyboards! John Christ, guitarist for DANZIG is there to play the lead guitar
- parts, so we've got 3/4th of DANZIG here. The songs could easily be DANZIG
- songs, so you get impression that this wasn't recorded all that long ago. A
- side project for $$$.
- Side two is just Glenn doing vocals and guitar, Errie Von on bass, and
- some other dude on drums way back in 1987. It's nothing more than re-recorded
- versions of half the songs on the "Unholy Passion" album. I DO like DANZIG, so
- I enjoyed this, and I'm sure 50,000 MISFITS fans will also.
-
-
- SLAPSHOT: Sudden Death Overtime (Taang!)
-
- Boston's legendary hardcore goon squad return with their third LP, and a
- brand new sound. While the previous records were 4-chord crude hardcore,
- Slapshot now have a Marshall stack assault similar to KILLING TIME. Unfortun-
- ately, Slapshot aren't the greatest musicians, so their attempt at "Noo Yawk
- styley hahdcaugh" often comes out as generic heavy metal. The riffs are ok,
- but the solos just plain SUCK. Even worse than the ones on the last six BLACK
- FLAG albums. What saves this is Choke's vocals, and their basic half-joking
- "Straight-edge In Your Face" attitude. They're really straight, but they know
- how to poke fun at themselves. Best songs: "Something To Prove", a total rip
- on the NYC scene, "Punk's Dead, You're Next", for all the EXPLOITED fans, and
- "White Rabbit", an unintentionally hilarious cover of the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
- classic.
-
-
- YOUTH OF TODAY 7" (Revelation)
-
- As THE band of the modern straight-edge movement, Youth of Today were
- often compared to MINOR THREAT. Like MT, Youth of Today have released a
- posthumous 3 song 7" that seems to say, "It was fun, but now we're gone, good
- bye." I have no idea when this was recorded (the record has "The Washout
- Sessions" etched in the middle), but I think it's the best thing YOT ever did.
- The songs are pretty much in the vein of the earlier stuff, but the playing is
- solid. There're a few things here and there that make it sound almost like
- JUDGE, these songs are more distinct than those of previous days. The best
- part of this record is the great production. Everything is clear and powerful,
- unlike the "We're Not In This Alone" album, where you can't even hear the bass
- and drums. There're some good old photos of the band, including Ray reading
- some Hare Krishna literature on the van, and a very cute looking Sammy. (He
- couldn't have been a day older than 13.) The lyrics are just a preview of what
- would soon come with SHELTER.
-
-
- Three compilation 7"s:
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- FOREVER (Irate)
-
- Aside from the fact that 4 of the 5 bands here are from New York and play
- at ABC NO RIO, there's no theme to this record. TURNING POINT aren't as
- melodic on here as they are on the REBUILDING 7" (see two reviews down).
- "Insecurity" sounds just like SICK OF IT ALL. BORN AGAINST are super-primitive
- punk. If it weren't for the incredible lyrics, they'd really blow. RORSCHACH
- are awful. BURN do a great song in the old ABSOLUTION style, but suffer from
- bad production. CITIZEN'S ARREST are total grind-core mania. If they were in
- England, they'd be bigger than NAPALM DEATH. On the whole, there's some good
- material here, but an overall bad sound kills it.
-
-
- HARDCORE 1990: East Meets West (Nemesis)
-
- The fourth live 7" from Nemesis, and the third compilation. This one has
- an interesting idea: three New York bands together on tour and three local
- Nemesis bands together on one record, all captured live. Unfortunately, like
- the other live 7"s, the sound quality ranges from so-so to just plain awful.
- (It sounds like they were recorded by some guy in the crowd with a tape
- recorder.) POINT BLANK and CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL are nothing new, while VISION
- is easily one of the best melodic hardcore bands in the country. CARRY NATION
- (with two ex-NO FOR AN ANSWER people, and the drummer from INSTED) are pretty
- good. The KILLING TIME (now disbanded) and SICK OF IT ALL cuts are songs I've
- heard a million times live. I'm sure you know what they sound like by now.
- This isn't really necessary.
-
-
- REBUILDING (Tolerance)
-
- This is a benefit record for Trans Species Unlimited, an animal
- rights/vegan group. TURNING POINT do a great melodic tune. BURN, who I've
- seen live about 6 times this year, do a slow grungy song that once again
- suffers from awful production. GORILLA BISCUITS do a silly song called
- "Biscuit Power". NO ESCAPE play a moshy and powerful one.
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