Puppetmaster Of Pandemonium - Chaosweaver

Advantages: A Powerfull and Impressive Record By Any Bands Standards
Disadvantages: Not Quite Impressive Enough For Me

...…… The first track "Pandemonium" starts of with some middle eastern sounds which continue throughout before lunging into a robotic metallic grove, no one other than Killing Joke can do this sort of thing this good, Youths rumbling bass line is superb, as Jaz sings about seeing tomorrow and hearing the pandemonium, what an opener to the album it was almost all the classic elements are there. Then we go onto "Exorcism" which was recorded in the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid, the main problem during the recording of this was that the pyramid kept draining the power from the batteries on their equipment. This song is a rite preformed by the band through music and lyrics purging nasty stuff from you and is a techno metal piece of relentless nastiness. A lot of folk slagged them off for copying Ministry here but since KJ have always done this sort... Read review

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Advantages: Gorgeous sultry tango music for late-night listening.
Disadvantages: Only about 40 minutes of music, not to everyone's taste.

...playing time is about 40 minutes). I haven't been to Argentina, neither have I read the Borges nor seen the production... so I have to go with my own ideas on this one, and to me this music conjures up something halfway between West Side Story and old French films. The first tunes are slow and languorous,: the "Prologue" slow and deliberate, setting the scene, then the "Milonga for Three" a measured decadent and seductive dance. "Street Tango" increases the pace, evoking a busy street perfectly, and the "Milonga Picaresque" goes faster still, leading up to the pandemonium of the "Knife Fight", then "Leonora's theme" - almost a lament (she's so clearly a prostitute) - that becomes something more defiant for just a few eye-opening seconds. The Prelude to the Cyclical Night is little more than a snatch of a theme, cut off by the relentless... Read review

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Advantages: 7 great tracks :-)
Disadvantages: 4 duds :-(

...goes straight from the chorus to the verses without the instrumental bits inbetween, which made it sound awkward) as well as half the guitar solo. A song that The Sisters Of Mercy would probably be proud of. "Beyond Redemption" is quite good, with weird keyboards, chigging riffs and breathless, echoing vocals, although not one of their best. "Sweet Pandemonium" is again a majestic song with a vaguely Black Sabbath-esque riff (for some reason the riff makes me think of a modern-sounding "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", even though the rest of the song doesn't - for a start the production is completely different), a catchy chorus, and is one of their best and most underrated songs I think. "Soul On Fire" is a fast, frantic-sounding song in the vein of "Buried Alive By Love". Great track, although sometimes it sounds a bit overproduced to me... Read review

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