Friday, November 28, 2008
Lyrics: Electro Hippies - Play Fast or Die
(Posting these because I can’t seem to find them anywhere else. The source was a post on a last.fm forum from around 2005.)
Acid Rain
Stormclouds gather, watch the raindrops fall,
One by one…
Sulphide smog, covers the fields,
Colours fade, become a blur,
All black and grey, no longer green
Deadly silence, no movement there…
Leaves are shed, from the trees,
Animals gone, in search of food.
Acid rain: Man-made disease,
With no cure, we all lose…
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
DLA review of Gortuary’s “Manic Thoughts of Perverse Mutilation”
San Diego’s own death metal start-up Gortuary has been tackled by reviewers on the internet’s oldest and most prestigious metal site, the Dark Legions Archive.
Here’s what they have to say about the band’s first release, Manic Thoughts of Perverse Mutilation:
This band reminds me of Psychomancer, who were sort of around a few years ago, but without the ability to grasp the core of what they’re expressing in a song and bring it to light. All instrumentation is capable, songwriting technique is good, but songs don’t come together and end up being a chaotic riff salad of contradictory impulses. That they do this in old school death metal aesthetic is at first memorable, until you realize that this CD lacks what made the old school great: the ability to bring a dark, brooding, powerful vision of life alive and make it exciting. Spare us.
In other words, close, but no cigar: the fragmented, unrelated riffs are this album’s downfall. Perhaps we will see some more noteworthy material from Gortuary in the future?
You can listen to the entire album right here in a modest mp3 quality, but I hope you keep in mind the “try before you buy” philosophy.
