Altar - Sunn O))) & Boris

Advantages: Fantastic live album
Disadvantages: none

...This live double album is both a fantastic introduction to Boris for the new listener and a treat for the longtime fans. CD1 opens with the drone classic, 'Feedbacker', which effortlessly segues into the rest of the first cd. CD2 contains a number of more recent Boris songs, as well as the epic 'The evilone which sobs', a menacing slab of noise taken from the Dronevil double album. The presence of Merzbow on this release only serves to highlight the power of Boris and the magnificent noise they make. I really cannot recommend this double album highly enough, the sound quality is excellent (which is more than can be said for some live albums) and the selection of songs is varied enough to keep the listener's attention throughout.... Read review

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Advantages: Most of the essential tracks, with booklet annotations
Disadvantages: A couple of earlier singles missing

...passage did on another - and thankfully the 3-minute single edit is elbowed in favour of the full 8-minute album version on this compilation. After that the group rather lost their way; the slightly amusing "Squeeze Box" and "Who Are You" are certainly not classic Who, but a few subsequent singles like the much-underrated "Let's See Action", the horns-based "5.15", and the post-Keith Moon, final Top 10 entry "You Better You Bet" all proved that something of the creative spark was still there. A couple of the earlier singles are missing and one of them at least could perhaps have been included instead of the hardly essential "Boris the Spider", but otherwise this presents The Who at their uncluttered best, shorn of all the excesses. "Baba O'Riley", feturing East of Eden's Dave Arbus on violin, was admittedly never a single... Read review

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Advantages: Released in the height of its popularity
Disadvantages: strictly monotonous

..."Necrophobic, can't control the paranoia/Scared to die!" - Necrophobic "Waiting the hour destined to die here in the table of hell/ A figure in white unknown by man approaching the altar of death/ ...dagger in hand, spilling the pure virgin blood/ ...ceremonial death, answer his every command/ ...soon you will meet the undead/ enter to the realm of Satan..." - Altar of Sacrifice * ALRIOGHT DAG NABBITT!!! SURE I CUT AND PASTE THIS FIRKIN REVIEW O'MINE FROM ONE O'THEM WEBSITE/STORES WHERE I SEND SOME REVIEWS - BUT THE POINT HERE IS, I'D LIKE TO SHARE/SPILL MY OP HERE BOUT THIS ALBUM ALSO HERE IN THIS PLACE OKEY??!! THAT'S THE POINT!! I.E.= I WOULD'VE NOT WRITTEN IT ANY OTHER WAY! With such lyrics and lovable songs, you know that the ever 'slaytanic' Slayer is not your average typical-americana band set to attract some orgasmic hormones... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful