Irritatingly cute, animated critters get chopped, garotted, disemboweled, and otherwise splattered in the just under two minute shorts on display here.
Songs titles like “The Midnight NAMBLA,” “I Got Erection,” and “Denim Demon” may set off joke-band alarms, but it’s obvious the band is serious about its music.
Every one of these 13 tracks is a winner. There’s nothing bad to be said about this album. The only bad thing to be said is about you if you don’t own it.
Patchy at times, magnificent at others, a sonic novel about broken lives/shattered dreams/disillusionment/history. Any one of us could be the characters.
This full-length and its four-track companion (also entitled Phoenix) are wonderful pieces of psychedelic perfection: Loud, brutal, drug-crazed, and expansive.
Estonians who play 14th century music on authentic instruments reinterpret Black Sabbath songs with radical arrangements and Latin translations of the lyrics.
More radio-friendly post-punkers discovering shoegazer, trip-hop, and Third Eye Blind. Bop-able, to attract females, but predictable from start to finish.
Combining Swedish violence (features Soilwork and Darkane folk) with the white hot and heavy bits from Amercian nü metal bands like Machine Head and Slipknot.