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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Week2 - Industrial, Blues, Metal

This week: filling in some holes, picking up some new Industrial, helping out the Queensland flood... 2 EPs, 1 Album, 1 Soundtrack and a Compilation were acquired this week (used record stores are good for older releases).

Caustic - 666 On The Crucifix
Label: Metropolis Records
Released: 3/15 [New Release]
Genre: Industrial (the artist prefers Jizzcore...)

New single from Caustic in prep for next months full album. It's a bunch of remixes of the title track and a few other tracks thrown in; 8 total for a decent EP. This is also a Digital Only Release (buy direct from Metropolis Records for best price). Track 1, album title track - the song is catchy, and aside from the obviously overused satan references, this is definitely making some fun of how a Club Hit is made. There are 3 other remixes of the song on the EP, none of them particularly spectacular. The other 4 tracks are excellent; Chum The Waters is by far the best track here. Fun EP, good for some off center industrial club cuts.

Front Line Assembly - Angriff
Label: Metropolis Records
Released: October 2010
Genre: EBM/Industrial

Another digital only single, this is six remixes of the title track, all of them a little too similar for my tastes actually. The song is awesome however, and the whole thing is good to toss into a giant EBM playlist so they get mixed around a little. There's also an unreleased track on the EP that really sounds a lot like just another remix of Angriff if you aren't paying attention. Good for wanting to complete an FLA collection.

Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Label: Island Records
Released: 1985
Genre: Metal/Thrash

Picked this one up as it's the last Anthrax album I didn't have on CD, how I waiting so long to get this classic into my collection is a mystery. It's great 80s thrash metal, this is the first full album to feature Joey Belladonna on vocals. Thus sets up the "classic" Anthrax line-up that lasted through Persistence Of Time. It's missing some of the goofier fun material in later albums, but steps away from the punk-thrash of Fistful Of Metal into something a little more mature.

Black Snake Moan (soundtrack)
Label: New West Records
Released: Jan 2007
Genre: Blues (primarily Delta Blues)

I managed to catch this movie finally and was amazed by it, and the soundtrack made it go above the grade. Samuel L Jackson even puts down some vocals on this one himself. The music carried the movie perfectly, so I had to get the soundtrack. This is some amazing blues here, some old standards re-imagined as well.

Surge And Subside (compilation)
Label: Aphotic Audio
Released: Feb 2011
Genre: Industrial/Electronica (and sub-genres....)

http://surgesubside.com -- Released in response to the major flooding in Queensland Australia in early 2011. All tracks were donated by over 40 bands to raise money for the flood victims. Buying direct from Aphotic gets a bonus Overflow of 9 tracks. Helping flood victims aside: the music itself is a pretty standard affair for a collection of wide ranging electronica, most of it falls in or close to the Industrial genre. It's a little too all over the place for a cohesive compilation, it's obvious the bands tossed in their hats to grab as wide an audience as possible to raise money. A good thing in all, and worth the purchase to help out a region still recovering from a natural disaster. The album comes both as physical and digital releases (I picked up the digital release), and gets you over 3 hours of music.

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