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Wow, talk about a redemption of sorts. With opener “Fukya,” a title as moronic and juvenile as the music itself, this record was on a trajectory to Zero-ratings-ville like no other since, I dunno, the umpteenth needless Iron Maiden compilation/live album/ripoff. Said “Fukya” begins with a combination of electronic breakbeats and industrial pounding before giving way to a robust clone riff of COC’s “Vote With a Bullet” or something off those early Prong records. Three seconds elapse and that, in turn, gives way to a much lazier groove-metal riff. More breakbeats, a seemingly interminable false-stop before a certainly anticlimactic chorus. The song ends, it’s done with, and then we’re subjected to a full minute of breakbeats, sound and voice effects. It’s so bad it should be heard as a sort of case study in how NOT to perform heavy music. Any demo, even a modest three-song effort like this one, which featured three songs like the first, would receive only scorn and ridicule, but things turn around fast and permanently. The latter two songs, “Green (With the Lights On)” and “Rawk Heist,” do an about-face into rumbling, crusty stoner rock, vocals shrieking and squalling on a street corner between anarcho-punk and Bon Scott, with only the most tenuous of industrial flourishes. It’s neither the most original thing on the planet nor even any smarter than the bane-of-my-existence first track, but it heaves, breathes and literally salvages this affair wholesale. More songs like the last two, please, and forget you ever wrote and recorded the first, thankya.
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| 1. Fukya |
| 2. Green (With the Lights On) |
| 3. Rawk Heist |
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