Nice-guy punk’n’roll with hard rock touches in guitarville. Feel like they germinated out of a hopped-up power-pop combo, whittled into more of a gut punch.
An army of vocalists, many distinct, some cliché, each committed to enunciation like a diction school, most recalling the many facets of Bruce Dickinson.
While Assemblage 23 projects the image of high energy and fast-paced music, the songs “Cocoon” and “Lullaby” offer a break, clocking in at well under 100 bpm.
Before they went industrial metal, The Kovenant were an industrially-noisy Norwegian black metal band. This is the band’s reworked and remixed ’95 debut.
Man, ya gotta love The Great Kat. An absolute demoness shredder on both guitar and violin, plus screaming vox, blood-drenched and bursting-boobie photos.
Tinfoil hat “new wave” ’80s roots intensified and streamlined away from the hinky-jerkiness in favor of a pushier punk and roll take on such goofiness.