Mass Destruction

Curse of the Golden Vampire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ipecac Recordings
• ASIN: B00009EIRR
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another mechanized assault, November 22, 2003

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Craig Allen Moore (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mass Destruction (Audio CD)

This recording just plain hurts. While this may be the update to the uber-classic "Scum" album from Napalm Death(with whom Justin played in their humble beginnings), I don't really believe that it has any implications of "future genre cornerstone" like the aforementioned. So what you get here is a whirlwind of thrash, punk, digital hardcore, a peppering of Godflesh-esque riffs, and tons of over-the-top distorted diatribes from JK Flesh and the man known as the Bug. These guys should need no introduction, but since the world is often more preoccupied with pomp than circumstance, suffice it to say that they are masters at their trade. This time around, instead of trippy drum loops and infinite remixes, they've distilled some seriously harsh socio-political rhetoric and set it to a sonic backdrop to incinerate your eardrums. The songs are generally quite fast, with some detours into straight up grind, but a lot of them hang around too long and the overall feel is somewhat samey. What they have done really well here is demonstrate just how close you can get to having a total noise wipeout on your record without ever crossing the line. The drums are very menacing, and sometimes they take over the song(a Broadrick trademark)in a fashion not unlike some of Agoraphobic Nosebleed's machine gun grind. Almost every sound you hear on this disc is distorted. While this makes for an impressively angry atmosphere, it is somewhat unlistenable. In my opinion, this record will appeal mostly to fans of Broadrick's work previous to this. Now all we have to do is sit around and twiddle our thumbs until he unveils Jesu, his newest project.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More digitally Hardcore then anything on DHR, August 16, 2003

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Amviseon (waconia, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mass Destruction (Audio CD)

This is it, fast hard and electronic what Digital Hardcore should be. Its a very soild fast tempo release, sometimes drifting over to noise rock. Fans of music such as Atari teenage roit, Naplam death, The Shizit, Alec Empire, or ANY other hardcore music should diffently not hesitate to buy,burn,or ... this album. You will not regrete it.