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Producer : Steve Albini
Genre : Rock. Metal-Industrial in the Fall Of Because / Godflesh / later-era Ministry sense, but this album sounds "industrial*" in much the same way Bob Ross paintings are Cubist.
Special Features : Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Final, Jesu, Ice, Techno Animal, Curse Of The Golden Vampire, Fall Of Because, etc, etc.) on drums.
Sounds Like : Bastard child of Fall Of Because and Van Halen, Fear Factory's daddy. It's worth noting that this album sounds like it's mixed in reverse - drums over bass over guitar over vocals - and it works, beautifully.
Bought it for : Dog Day Sunrise, Justin Broadrick, Steve Albini (in that order).
Runtime : 48.4 minutes for 15 tracks
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Track Listing and Ratings
01. [***xx] Tequila (reminds me of the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks)
02. [*****] El Supremo (instrumental)
03. [*****] Dog Day Sunrise (drums what go WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!, faithfully covered by Fear Factory on Demanufacture)
04. [****x] Bugged
05. [*****] Great White Heat (Van Halen-ish instrumental)
06. [*****] Cult Of Coats (Goofiness in the extreme)
07. [*****] Ditchwater
08. [-----] 108
09. [-----] Roadkill
10. [****x] Snake Domain
11. [-----] Grand Rift Faultline
12. [****x] Adrenecide
13. [*xxxx] Pierced All Over (Godflesh does the gloom thing far better)
14. [***xx] Skin Drill
15. [****x] Ink Vine (People double in size, but the brain remains the same)
Opinion
This album rocks. It's more of a low-fi crunchy, thuddy, bass-heavy rock album than it is the proto-grind of Fall Of Because or the polished electro-thud assault of the original Godflesh EP, which wasn't what I expected at all. Chronologically, Justin's stint in Head Of David overlaps FoB and falls right at the end of his time in Napalm Death, so I was expecting something in a similar vein. Instead, this - just as heavy, but with a funky rock-and-roll feel to it that has to be heard to be believed. Vocal styling is an extremely obvious influence on Demanufacture/Obsolete-era Fear Factory- far more than Godflesh, though earlier Godflesh vocals have a similar feel to FoB/HoD, so I think it's safe to say that Burton's just a big ol' Justin fanboy.
Like most Broadrick material, I'm glad I bought it and consider it well worth the price.
* When I think "industrial" I think of toasters assraping alarm clocks (Whitehouse), Robocop samples and guitar loops (Front Line Assembly before Delerium started making money), or some combination of the two.
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