On our annual Mike And Aaron Go To Toronto trip this year, Mike and I also did our annual swapping of goodies. This is as much fun as the trip itself, saving stuff up we know the other will like. This year, Mike gave me a bunch of CDs. Awesomely, this one was in the batch!
Machine Man sets an absolutely punishing pace. HEAVY YEAH!! One On One has a satisfying electronic-edged chug to it. Hell Is Home’s acoustic intro becomes a satisfying screamer. Jekyll And Hyde is another great stomper. A bit disappointed it wasn’t more the typical 90s quiet/loud thing, given the song’s title.
Close To You is the heavy slow ballad track. Great guitar work. Devil Digger whisper builds into a fast rocker that half-times it, on occasion. Yes! Bloodsuckers is a slow heavy quiet/loud track. It has a really epic sound, I liked this one. Feed On Me’s intro is totally Rob Zombie-fied, but it becomes a Priest ripper before long.
Subterfuge is a huge wall of sound that is even more Zombie. Lost And Found is a pretty acoustic ballad track that builds to the full band joining in before the 2:30 mark. I’d swear it sounds like a song I know from the 80s but I’ll be damned if I can tell you what it is. Cyberface builds into another bluesy metal chugger. Metal Messiah sounds like Faith no More but with Priest in the mix.
This edition came with two bonus tracks. I had to double-check with Mike that he didn’t accidentally send me home with the wrong edition – I know how he feels about the bonus tracks! But he assured me that this was indeed the one he meant to send! He has another edition that covers this and (probably) much more.
Rapid Fire (Re-recorded version)… HELL YES! This is probably my favourite track here… which is probably sad, considering it’s off another album entirely… But oh man, that howl! And The Green Manilishi (Re-recorded version) is a tune even I know to be a classic, what a killer track! Cool!
In Sum:
This whole record is recorded very well – I liked the huge sound. And live? These tracks would really be sure those speakers were pushing air. When this guy screams, he sounds like Axl. There’s a lot of electronics here, but it’s still very very heavy, and that’s what I wanted. A very satisfying album. Thanks heaps, Mike!!
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Holy fuck I’m behind a bit.
Just really really glad you liked it. I never know, I just throw ’em to the AAAA. And yes I recall that email when you thought I had sent the wrong version. Nope! But I appreciate the heads up!
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I did like this one! It’s very Zombified, at points, but overall it’s heavy and satisfying. I liked it so much I played it twice! In a row!
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Yeah — Zombiefied. Well put.
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Also, for sure I was gonna check. I know how you feel about bonus tracks!
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That’s cool u dug this…for me I just passed it by as at that time in the mid 90s all these singers were quitting bands and I got tired of it so I stopped buying there product ! Well that’s a lie..I bought the two Blaze Maiden albums and Cherones VH 3 thingy….but man Dickinson/V Neil/Halford/ Hagar/ and there’s maybe more but those 4 guys splitting it was like ……Fuck off!
Hahaha
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I did enjoy this! The AAAA was very grateful for this donation. 😉
There’s probably a whole post in that idea about all the singers quitting around the same time… better jump on that idea before Mikey does! 😉
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Hahaha….give Er!
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Yeah you better before Mike pounces. I don’t know enough about it to write intelligibly on the subject.
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Hahaha..oh u mean me! Hahaha…
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