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What can I say? This album presents damn near everything at once. Many, many influences are mixed together, though the primary basis of this album has to be Thrash and Death Metal. This record is of note perhaps mostly for the work of Van Williams. The man behind the kit for Nevermore pulls double duty here, also providing quite good vocals in addition to his normal priority of percussive abuse. All other instrumentation is provided by Christ Eichhorn, save for a pair of guest guitar solos here and there.
I really do not know what to say to convey a meaningful description of this recording. It has the kind of avant garde weirdness of a Buckethead record, including some of the electronic aspects, while maintaining a definitive Metal backbone that skirts several subgenres while including all of them simultaneously. The vocals veer into the realm of Black Metal and Goth, though they are primarily of the Thrash/Death variety with an additional change-up or two -- even sounding like Warrell Dane at one point.
There is no doubt that “The Voyeurs of Utter Destruction as Beaty” is a good record and that Pure Sweet Hell is a great project band. The problem is that this album and band can be quite exhausting, particularly if absorbed at once. The primary complaint this writer can foresee would be finding a select audience for this group/CD. Sometimes the multiple stylings and genre-bending seem to be included simply because the guys could. Is that necessarily good? No. It can come across as contrivance. In a word: interesting.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Innocence And The Beast |
| 2. Scared About Everything |
| 3. Golgotha On My Mind |
| 4. Swallow |
| 5. Undone |
| 6. Gehenna |
| 7. Hangfire |
| 8. Rave Song |
| 9. Take Away |
| 10. The Killers |
| 11. What Your Pain Is |
| 12. Beautiful Suicide |
| 13. Dr. Death |
: 44.33
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