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Zinthra CD Reviews
Pigface and Front Line Assembly
Artist:
Pigface
Album:
“head…”
Date Released:
2003
Type Of Music:
Industrial, Dance, Rock, Crazy-ness
Track Listing:
- insect/ suspect – Pitchshifter
- bitch – Defragmentation
- closer – Eisturzede Neubauten
- king of negativity – Godhead
- blow you away – Dkay.com
- mind your own business – Chris Vrenna
- bitch – Colony 5
- blow you away – Julian Beeston
- closer to heaven – My Life With The Thrill Kill
Kult
- closer to heaven – Nocturne
- insect/ suspect – Hate Dept.
- closer to heaven - Chris Haskett
- sweetmeat – Slick Idiot
- blow you away – Bile meets the Inbred
Brothers
Review : This
album is stuffed with a whole lot of bloody sweetmeat! Between Defragmentation’s
cover of “bitch” with high pitch squealing and screaming with Chris Vrenna’s
melodic cover of “mind your own business” this makes for an album that is
defiantly anything but easy light listing. This cd was realsed after “Easy
Listing”, thus why it is all remix’s of that one. Over half the artist on “easy
listing” contributed to “head…”. What is interesting with “head…” is that it
surprisingly all meshes together well. One would think with over 20 main people
working on a cd that it would be choppy or there would be at least a drastic
change from one song to the next, but there isn’t. Every thing is exciting, new,
and catchy with out being annoying. Well the only slightly annoying thing about
this cd is that there is four remix’s of “closer to heaven”. At least they are
all different so you can distinguish one artist cover to the next. Slick Idiot
(members of KMFDM) also shows up for a track, case and point is nice being they
where on the second united tour with Pigface. Then for a little added bonus at
the end you get Bile covering a song with the Inbred Brothers, how great is
that? To great if you ask me, so for remix cd’s go I must say this is one of the
best that I have heard for years. It rates up there with KMFDM’s cover’s of
White Zombie’s “Night Crawlers” and “Light”.
Rating:
****
By:
Zinthra
Artist: Front Line Assembly
Album: Civilization
Date
Released: 2004
Type
Of Music: Industrial, Dance, Metal
Track
Listing:
1. pschosomatic
2. maniacal
3. vanished
4. strategic
5. civilization
6. fragmented
7. parasite
8. dissident
9. schicksal
Review : Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, my
masters teamed up together again for another heart breaking suahga of
FLA trauma and drama. The opening
track “psychosomatic” blears out with groovy lyrics such as “ psycho sematic,
your so dramatic you seem to hang on every word I say, psycho sematical, your so
fanatical …you breath my air, you take up my space, you make me hate the human
race”. So just in case you heard some yahoo one the street try and tell you that
FLA has grown old and are watered down, trust me they are far from the truth.
After 15 years of making music typically people grow, and this band has
defiantly evolved with there programming, sequencing and lyrical content. Don’t
threats they still sing about how corrupt the government is, manic
depression and human drama, but now they
are more developed! Another track that really sticks out to me hear is
“vanished” . This is a more mellow relaxing tone with a little uncertainty for
the future, they start out by saying “we cling to each other like a child and a
mother” then they go on to paint a picture of nothing to live for anymore, with
all emotions fading. “vanishing horizons, we leave each other cold, I am dying
on the inside, no where left to go”. Yet with all this going on the middle
chorus still has a feel of connection to this other person that is holding on to
by saying, “I know what your thinking, doing and feeling”. Other then that song
most of the rest are all about how the government sucks and how you need to
break out when you are pushed to the edge.
Rating: ****
By:
Zinthra
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