Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins Toads & Gods Flesh

Thought Industry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 1993)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B000001C6B
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Burning Kalamazoo to the ground with Zippo fluid, September 15, 1999

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Erik K. Johnson "ejpunk" (San Antonio TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins Toads & Gods Flesh (Audio CD)

There seems to be little words can do to explain Thought Industry's second album "Mod's Carve the Pig". Their first album "Songs for Insects" left my jaw dropping at the convuluted lyrics and stop-on-a-dime-and-turn-the-bloody-song-around rhythm section. This album makes the tempo and rhythm changes of "Songs" seem a mere novelty, while the lyrics take you on a voyage no doped-up, acid-laced, shroom-swallowing rock poet ever before dared to venture. This album, like all of Thought Industry's albums, requires a few times through the player before you are over-whelmed with the need to simply leave it in at all times. Unlike TI's other albums however, there is very little on it the casual listener could ever be able to swallow, let alone consume in the fashion this album demands of it's listener. An absolutely brilliant piece of work, but make sure to dispose of all pre-conceived notions about how heavy metal, and music in general, needs to be played.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ., February 22, 2000

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This review is from: Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins Toads & Gods Flesh (Audio CD)

Mods Carve the Pig is quite different from Thought Industry's debut Songs For Insects, but every bit as much of a classic. They trimmed down on some of the grandiose flare of the earlier disc, sharpened their sound a bit, and traded in the archaic and fantasy-like imagery of SFI for a more decidedly modern vision. The lyrics are still intense, tittilating hodgepodges of every word you never bothered to look up in the dictionary, but are now supplemented by a new fondness for references to booze, drugs, and current politics, and a strengthened fondness for references to TI's hometown, Kalamazoo. Mods Carve the Pig is a decidedly meaner, darker, more contemporary album, and vocalist Oberlin seems ready to prove that he's far more hardcore than Geddy Lee could ever hope to be. I really love this album because I grew up on it; in reality, there are a lot of rather silly moments and some of the singing, which was always a little off key, is downright difficult to take (see Patiently Waiting for Summer.) But Mods remains an album that is absolutely alive with personal vision and creativity, and there isn't another rock/metal/hardcore-prog album like it anywhere. A unique treat, and the last wholly worthwhile TI album.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Very Creative, May 1, 2004

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Nicholas J. Sylvain (Cornwall, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins Toads & Gods Flesh (Audio CD)

This album is going to make your head spin i give it a 4.5 cause horsepowered does get on my nerves but then it's a work of art from then on out great work from a great mind of brent orblin not for the faint of heart tho.