Blood on the Moon

Chrome | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 23, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B001IZILRK
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,283 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mondo Bizarro, February 14, 2009

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This review is from: Blood on the Moon (Audio CD)

Listening to "Blood on the Moon" is like being trapped in the aural equivalent of D.C. comics' Bizarro World: strange, unpredictable, surreal and nerve-wracking. By the time of "Blood on the Moon," Damon Edge and Helios Creed had refined the Chrome sonic canvas to a metallic sheen, a sound reminiscent of a nuclear power plant going critical. Creed's wildly stochastic leads and Edge's strangely erotic vocals and industrial synth noise fuse with the menacing drone of the Stench Brothers' drum & bass bravado, creating eerie soundscapes for deranged punk mutants and twisted new wave vampires. The opening track, the intensely manic "The Need," delivers an accelerated pulsing rhythm track overwhich Creed's malevolent guitar and Edge's demonic vocal and radioactive synth bursts create an orgasmic climax that is absolutely sexual. "Perfumed Metal" is just as frenetic, with Creed's flanged staccato guitar salvos and Edge's alienated, paranoid vocals creating the perfect mood for demented cyborgs lost in the new dark age of computer dominance and submission. "The Strangers" features some of Edge's creepiest lyrics and one of Creed's nastiest solos ever--like the deathscream of a melting robot. "Brain on Scan" is another standout track, a full metal jacket of shrieking industrialized noise with Edge's echoed voice swirling in the mix like some strange banshee from another world. There are, admittedly, moments of stasis and monotomy that interrupt the album's otherwise savage drive; however, even these tracks work as a kind of repetitive calm before yet another psychic assault on the nervous system. And though not as anarchically brilliant as "Alien Soundtracks" or "Half Machine Lip Moves," "Blood on the Moon" does show Chrome moving toward a more consistently satisfying compromise between arty aural dadaism and punky psychindustrialism--a sound they would more fully realize on their terminal masterpiece "3rd from the Sun."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chrome - 'Blood On The Moon' (Cleopatra) 4 1/2 stars, December 20, 2010

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood on the Moon (Audio CD)

First released in 1981, as this was Chrome's fifth longplayer. Tracks that definitely make this [much welcomed] CD reissue a keeper are "Perfumed Metal", the total ass-kicking "Planet Strike", "Out Of Reach (sort of reminds me of Can), "Brain On Scan" and the title cut "Blood on The Moon". Loved the way that Cleopatra tags on four live songs from a 1981 live gig that Chrome played in Bologne, Italy. When I met up with guitarist Helios Creed a few years back, he told me that in it's original run, Chrome only played four live concerts - two in San Francisco and two shows in Italy. Obviously, this is one of those two gigs on archived CD. I've seen some import title - independent label CD of Chrome playing an entire show - but, I didn't purchase it because it was too co$tly - as now I regret it because I haven't seen it since. I've looked all over the Internet but I am unable to find it. I would know the front cover for sure. As for 'Blood On The Moon' it's highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars outsider rock masterpiece, April 16, 2009

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Mr. P. C. Bougie "roaring platypus duck" (thetford,norfolk,U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood on the Moon (Audio CD)

Blood on the moon was san francisco duo Chrome,s 5th album and their 1st with an outside rythm section brought in.this resulted in a more muscular sound all round, leaving Helios Creed and Damon Edge to concentrate on strafing everything in sight over the churning rhythms thundering along courtesy the Stench Bros.the amazing thing is that this album still sounds amazing now as it did then. there,s just nothing around now which comes close!this album should be played loud, very loud! guaranteed to leave your skull in ruins!