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| 1. Son Et Lumiere |
| 2. Inertiatic Esp |
| 3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) |
| 4. Tira Me A Las Aranas |
| 5. Drunkship Of Lanterns |
| 6. Eriatarka |
| 7. Cicatriz Esp |
| 8. The Apparatus Must Be Unearthed |
| 9. Televators |
| 10. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt |
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2.0 out of 5 stars
prog emo?,
This review is from: De-loused in the Comatorium (Audio CD)
This album is testimony to the truth that all those hours you spent as a teen locked in your room playing air guitar will eventually come back to haunt you. I don't know much about these guys, but it's clear that there some serious metalhead residue lingering here. Naturally, since metalheads are viewed as bottom feeders in terms of musical tastes, these guys strive very hard to prove themselves worthy of a higher status. Eclectism is the new redeeming virtue and all the rage, so they eagerly opt for that. However, no matter how well they dress it up, they most basic influences are still in clear view.I suppose they call this emo because it's got those annoying, high-pitched, nasally vocals that is considered "emotive" but in M.V. vocalist Bixler's case, sounds most of the time like a spastic and very effeminate version of Maynard James Keenan. That's not the end of the Tool presence here (perhaps a bit of Carcass too -- who knows?), which is found in the lyrics, song titles and artwork to a noticeable extent. And when Bixler's not doing his whiny Keenan thing, he sounds like any one of a number of very bad New Wave of Heavy Metal vocalists from bands best lost to history. No surprise then that there more than a few unmistakable Iron Maiden moments littered through the disc. As for the songs -- it's the return of prog rock: complicated for complicated's sake. It's a mish-mashed, crazy quilt style of pastiche, stringing together or layering different musical ideas without interest in complementariness. Case in point: "drunkship of lanterns" is about as coherent and cohesive as its title suggests. It begins with a hyper-paced Santana-ish grindgroove, with bits of rockish quips and esoteric winks dancing about and Bixler screeching about god knows what on top, then it collapses into something that sounds like free jazz but isn't really, then shifts back to the previous uptempo hodge-podge it started with. It's a holy mess of a song on an epic Emerson Lake and Palmer scale. So too is "cicatriz esp," which tries to slow down in midsong into a jazzy interlude that's more reminiscent of Iron Maiden's "Strange World" than anything jazz that then flips into something that sounds suspiciously like Sabbath's pre-electronica "FX" before hoolaing off into another Santana-esque whirlwind. At their most coherent, the songs on this album are something like eclectized Incubus (which is suburbanized Nirvana, which is..., etc.), and the lyrics, when not being pretentious (it doesn't get more pretentious than "You must have been phlegmatic in stature"), are adolescent. The guitar solong/noodling that often tries to be jazzy (I have to comment of this, being a guitarist) is flashy, noisy and ultimately distracting and useless -- think really vapid Scofield imitations by a graceless rock musician who's listened to too much heavy metal. I'm giving this album two stars because, like any pretentious prog rock opus, it had to take a generous and impressive amount of effort and determination (and hubris) to pull the whole byzantine operation off. But beyond that I can seriously pass on this CD. Plenty have already been dazzled by this band, and I'm sure there'll be more. However, for me, it's too much faux jazz, too much nonsense and too many Tool and Maiden flashbacks all at once, and it leaves me tired and far from dazzled.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing Album!,
By Booker (Vancouver, BC, CAN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: De-loused in the Comatorium (Audio CD)
And I'm not even a progressive rock fan (as I guess one would classify this as). This album has some of the best riffs I've ever heard, coupled with some impressive vocals that play some pretty unique counterpoint to those riffs. The drum work is flawless, and the whole album feels like a single piece of music as every track carries the same production elements throughout. I've owned this album for 2.5 years and I still make time to sit down and give it a concerted listen at least once a month. I don't think there's a single album that I own that can lay claim to that. I'm not necessarily a huge fan of the band as I've found their subsequent outtings not quite as involving as this album. But don't let that slow you down from buying this CD. It's usually grossly underpriced and it's always a kick showing it to people for the first time. I've created more than one fan of this work of art.
4.0 out of 5 stars
De-loused,
By Patrick (Toronto) - See all my reviews
This review is from: De-loused in the Comatorium (Audio CD)
This album is one of the newest and best things I have heard in a while. From beginning to end it is all original and unlike anythign I have ever heard before. I recommend it to anyone out there who likes good rock music, you will not be disappointed.Trucks, ptruckle@hotmail.com
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