Customer Reviews

Millennium Monsterwork

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2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

First of all im not a kid, i'm just writing on here because I don't have a email to an account with. I am a big fan of the Melvins and the only Fantomas album I've heard is suspended animation but I love it. I was browsing thru amazon when I found this. I gave the sound clips a listen and it sounded interesting and different. So I decided to buy it, and I love it! It has a few flaws so I could rate it four stars or maybe even three stars but I love it so much that i can't. I highly recommend this/

IT SEEMS LIKE BARELY ANYONE LIKES THIS CD BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH! I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE MELVINS AND THE FANTOMAS, AND THEY ARE GREAT TOGETHER! THIS CD IS VERY INTENSE AND IT'S NOT LIKE ANYTHING YOU'LL HEAR ON THE RADIO. I LOVE BOTH OF THE SINGERS, BUT IN SOME OF THE SONGS WHERE THEY SING TOGETHER IT DOESN'T SOUND THAT GREAT. I STILL HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM TO ANY MELVINS OR FANTOMAS FAN, OR ANYONE WHO'S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND HEAVY.

This gets more of a three and a half. Mainly becuase i'm a big fan of both of these bands. But this recording isn't that great. Theres nothing wrong with the sound quality, its just that Its a medieocre album. It gets a little boring. I have a feeling it would have been better in the studio, with slightly longer songs. The versions of Cape Fear, Hooch, and Night Goat are amazing how ever! Those three tracks alone are worht the price. But I expected more from such a great concept. However, I did have the privalage of Seeing the Fantomas/Melvins Big Band live last summer, and it was an amazing experience! Don't let this album detuor you from seeing them live if you get the chance!

Here's your chance. This is a great companion piece to the two Fantomas albums "Director's Cut" and their self titled debut. The sound quality on this live release is excellent and you get to hear "The Omen" theme live as well as some Melvins favorites. I find myself laughing when listening to this cd because I picture Mike Patton screaming, squacking, and making wierd sounds into his microphones in front of a New Year's crowd.

Recommended for Fantomas, Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle, and noise rock fans. Pick this puppy up.

The only official Melvins/Fantomas bigband release recorded live at Slims on New Years Eve is an exercise in power to say the very least. Uniting two of the underground's most inventive and unique bands as one single monolithic 8-person supergroup, the Fantomas/Melvins combined band's sheer volume and personnel are staggering. Just the prospect of hearing Dave Lombardo and Dale Crover together on the same stage, two of rock's most pummeling and ferocious drummers, should be incentive enough to buy this CD, but the rest of the extended band's veteran rockers are not too shabby either. King Buzzo growls every syllable while laying down some of the heaviest, grinding riffs that have ever oozed their way out of his guitar, Patton screeches like a madman, Stone revels in his own sonic noise montages, and Trevor Dunn and Kevin Rutmanis hold down the set's bottom end with their bombastic low frequency blasts. While Fantomas and The Melvins may all be good friends and even include one of the same members (King Buzzo), their styles are at exact opposite ends of the spectrum. The resulting clash of ideas is fascinating, forcefully combining the slow bludgeoning work of the Melvins with the frenetic fury of Fantomas to create something that is truly formidable in its violently contrasting elements. The songs themselves are an even mix of Melvins and Fantomas originals, with a few covers off The Director's Cut as well, but the additional members involved bring new individual parts to every track that give the entire show a fresh layer of complex intricacy. Unfortunately, the actual sound quality of the performance's source tapes is not that great and although Buzzo did a wonderfully comprehensive job of compiling and cleaning up this epic CD, especially the flawless transitions between tracks, the sound quality still prevents me from giving it a full five stars. Then again, Millennium Monsterworks is far from the average cassette recording by a semi drunk audience member, and still sounds quite professional; It is simply not on par with the quality of past live releases like "Your Choice Live Series Vol. 12" or "Colossus of Destiny". A brilliant idea and undoubtedly an amazing concert experience, Millennium Monsterworks falters a bit in its recorded version, but even with these minor flaws, this album should still satisfy fans of either of one of these genius bands.

This is a good album but there are a few problems that keep it from reaching it's full potential.

Problem 1 - The quality. The drums sound pretty bad on this recording. It really is painful to listen to sometimes but for the most part you can ignore it because Dale and Dave are great drummers. The bass is very difficult to hear as well.

Problem 2 - Some of the songs just don't sound good. The Omen and Page 1 come to mind.

Problem 3 - Not enough Melvins and some of the Melvins songs that are here are cut in half. (Hooch and Skin Horse)

Problem 4 - And this is the big one, the entire setlist isn't here! Below is the setlist that they played that night.


01 - Sacrifice
02 - Black Stooges
03 - Page 01
04 - Page 02
05 - Page 04
06 - Night Goat
07 - Promise Me
08 - The Omen
09 - Cherub
10 - The Bit
11 - Page 29
12 - Page 11
13 - Page 03
14 - Chariot Choogle
15 - Dave Scott Stone Noise
16 - Mary Lady Bobby Kins
17 - Lovely Butterfly
18 - Page 14
19 - Jew Boy Flowerhead
20 - Page 06
21 - Page 10
22 - Hooch
23 - Mombius Hibachi
24 - Page 23
25 - Skin Horse
26 - Cape Fear
27 - Page 27
28 - Page 28
29 - Experiment in Terror
30 - Let God Be Your Gardener
31 - AMAZON
32 - Let It All Be(encore)


Yea, it's depressing knowing that a few of those weren't on it. It also would have been nice if this was a dvd instead of a cd.


But despite these flaws I do find myself listening to this quite a bit. It took a few listens to get past the flaws but once you do it's a pretty cool live album. I'd only recomend this for the die hard Fantomas fans.

Nah, I can't really get into this. I have a stack of Melvins CDs, a Fantomas disc or two, some Faith No More, and all that groovy loud stuff. So I had high hopes for this live album.

But 90% of it is a noisy waste. I'm surprised that these guys decided to play weird death-metal jams while Mike Patton screams over top. I mean, they can all really play, so why just act like [that]on stage? What's the point?

Sometimes I'll listen to this when I need a caffeine jolt of mindless aggression. It's like Ministry for nerds, with an extra hit of doofus humor and none of the discipline.

I was really looking forward to this CD after having seen Fantomas live and then Melvins live a few months later. Sadly, this effort to merge the two bands is a disappointment. The sound quality is bad and the "tightness" of the Fantomas songs just doesn't come accross with such a large ensemble. Stick to the studio albums - this is for die hards only. Although hearing Patton sing Hooch was cool!

If you like Melvins,don't buy this cd.There are only 4 songs by them inside.Night Goat,Hooch from Houdini,The Bit from Stag and Mombius Hibachi from Honky.Hooch version is cut.Only for Fantomas/Tomahawk supporters.

Really, it is. What you are hearing when you spin this disc are two huge avant garde metal bands doing what they might do in their basement for kicks, except on stage before an audience. After this occurence, this dialogue may have been had. "We should release this as a cd!" "Yeah, that will really through the (...)for a loop!" Brilliant. This may be the next best thing to an insiders look at the creative process of these two bands.