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The Dwarves Must Die

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I am a Dwarves fan since Blood, Guts, and Pussy...but no expert, just a fan! BUY THIS CD NOW!

I grabbed this CD to shock to see a new release by the Dwarves (it is hard to say considering this is one of those bands so great you expect tragedy someday....well maybe that is why the HWCNBN scandle came out because it was easy to belive).

Initially, I played about 5-10 seconds into each song and skipped to the next just excited and well wasn't impressed. Then I realized that is how long about each song was.

Later on that night, I threw it on again with some drinks, what did you know...this Dwarves release is infact not only catchy but well recorded (considering older Dwarves' CDs not hard to say). I cannot pick one particular favorite- The Dwarves are all over it and what many bands of such legacy fail to do, it is new, fresh and not typical of what was released before (to include the Hip Hop flare on Massacre).

It would be unfair to rate this because it is the Dwarves...they must die to live another day! Even though this is not their best one yet, I can say the Dwarves produced another classic and a must have!

See them on tour as I will in HB next month!!

Bleed On*
FEFU*
Salt Lake City (w/Dexter from Offspring)*
Dominator*
Demented*
Blast*
Like You Want*
Relentless*
Massacre*
Runaway #2*
GO!*
Another Classic*
Christ On A Mic*
Downey Junior*
The Dwarves Must Die*

The Dwaves are a band that people will still be talking aout twenty years from now. In every way they are punkrock music that sends a giant middlefinger to nearly evrybody and anyone. They make no disclaimers that they love sex, drugs, and overall fast living. There isn't any overdose of the serious political punk here, nor is there much of anything other than sheer decadence. The Dwarves are a F**k you band that have shock value mixed with shameless fun. My personal fave tracks on this album are "Fefu", "Dominator", "Salt lake City", and the title track "The Dwarves Must Die". All of these tracks are pounding punkrock songs that showcase incredible talent and production without ever being radio friendly.

First off, any fool that does not give this record 5 stars needs to give up their part-time punk rock lifestyle and stick to being another sheep in a cubicle. this album is nothing short of brilliant.

Blag and the boys conduct a fantastic mix of lounge, hardcore, choral, hip hop based in grand punk rock tradition. It cannot be matched. These songs have testicular fortitude that Green Day, Good Charlotte and the rest of the bubblegum punks could never reach with steroid-enhanced puberty. Fast. Violent. Unapologetic. If' you're looking for "American Idiot" or "Blvd of Broken Dreams", this album will challenge all that you hold dear and force you into a hard rock coma.
I hope we never wake up....

ps: see them perform live if you would like to have a life-altering experience.

The Dwarves are back, once again, to violate your notion of punk rock, beat you to a pulp, and screw your daughter in a bath of warm goat's blood.

This chapter in the Dwarves legacy follows the same musical diversity of recent albums, "The Dwarves are Young and Good Looking" (1997) and "Come Clean" (2000), while still dabbling in the fast and offensive of earlier releases, "Toolin' for a Warm Teabag" (1988) and the highly acclaimed "Blood Guts & Pussy" (1988). Powerful NIN-style industrial bashing on tracks "Blast" and "Christ on a Mic" flow well with angry punk rock standards "Dominator" and "Go!" The Beastie Boys-like rap attempts the Dwarves stuck on their last several albums as "bonus tracks" have finally been refined to poignantly offensive and angry centerpieces like "Demented" and "Massacre."

The Dwarves owe much of their early success to the cover art on "Blood, Guts..." which prompted rave reviews in popular magazines like Rolling Stone. Topping this winner off is their most wonderfully titillating cover art yet--the tokin' midget crucified and surrounded by disturbingly alluring nude beauties. The inside art is even better, featuring more of the nudes, plus He-Who in his voyeuristic stage getup.

Rightly so, this album has people divided. The Dwarves are a weird band that knows how to push people's buttons and aren't afraid of trying things that may alienate their own fans. For me, this album does a lot of good things. There are some elements of hip hop, still with a lot of the old "blood guts and pussy" attitude that you have come to love about the band. This album makes me feel good when I'm driving around, and its good for listening to multiple times. You get catchy poppy punk tunes like "Runaway #2" and "Salt Lake City" and some more 'unique' songs like FEFU and "relentless" that are still badass tunes, but again, not traditional punk.
I think this is a great record from a great band, not a total crowd pleaser, but it is an uncompromising and refreshing album.

i can't believe i hadn't reviewed this album sooner. well you can see by the five stars that i loved it, but let me elaborate more-
the dwarves do not adhere to any normal music conventions.
the dwarves do what they want! this album runs the gamut, from hip hop to industrial from pop punk to hardcore. the dwarves rule on every level and "must die" is no exception!!
...and to think, at my local punk and hardcore shop they said, " great album cover, to bad the music sucks"
open your mind punkers! if you want the same ol' same ol' fine, but if you want a band that is really breaking down walls (and isn't that truly what punk is about?), check out the dwarves!!!!!!!

Well, this is probably their worst album ever. It looks like if they had put together some old and new stuff that were not good enough to go on the other albums. Yet you can still find two or three songs that are worth listening to but 2-3 out of 15 is not a quite convincing score...
Far far behind come clean, young and good looking and their classical album blood, guts...
Better wait for the next one.

"Come Clean" is on of my favorate albums.
There are a couple good trax on this CD.
I don't like rap, I don't like bands that play rap, I don't like people who listen to rap.
I took a sharpie and wrote "Sux" on the CD and glued it to the wall.