Sacrificed

Razed In Black | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B00000I3WO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,853 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #40 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial

Track Listings

1. Whipped

2. Caught

3. Master

4. I Worship You

5. Snooze

6. Nightmare

7. Guilty

8. Lust

9. Damage, Inc.

10. Better Off

11. I've Suffered Long Enough

12. Solution

13. Never Meant

14. Are You There?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Josh's Music Reviews, January 11, 2001

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Joshua Feldblyum (Philadelphia PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacrificed (Audio CD)

The domain of industrial rock contains much fertile soil for powerful one-man bands like Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor), Skold (Tim Skold), and Pig (Raymond Watts). Unfortunately, most lists of this sort fail to include Hawaii's Romell Regulacion, a.k.a. Razed in Black. Don't let the location fool you though; unlike the state from which he hails, Regulacion is anything but mellow. He can fire off drum patterns better than any techno producer, torture his guitar more painfully than Skold or Gravity Kills, and warp a synthesizer far enough to make a diehard KMFDM fan drool. The songs on this CD range from tranquil but haunting soundscapes like "Guilty" and "I've Suffered Long Enough" to pounding electronic symphonies such as "Master" and "I Worship You." There are even extra goodies like "Caught," a wonderful intro to the rest of the album that sounds like it could appear in a Tim Burton movie, and an astounding cover of Metallica's "Damage Inc.," filled with a combination of the original crushing drums and guitars and scores of light-speed electronic blips. Everything is lain on heavily, but nothing is overdone, be it the compelling dance beat of "Solution," the robotic voice singing the chorus of "Lust," or such sound effects as the metallic echo in "Never Meant" and the bat-like screeching at the beginning of "I Worship You." The instrumentation here is a cross between the Twilight Zone, a Berlin rave, an overloaded computer, and one of the upper layers of Hell. In short, it's good stuff.

The lyrics on Sacrificed, as could be predicted without much trouble, are about pain. Mostly the emotional kind (although not completely). Songs like "Better Off" and "I've Suffered Long Enough" resemble early Stabbing Westward, although more confident and honed down (after all, this is the third Razed in Black album). Unlike Stabbing Westward, however, physical pain is also explored in depth in S&M anthems like "I Worship You" and "Lust." Lyrics along the lines of "Force the blade against my throat/ Lick the blood against the edge" abound, satisfying the darker side in all of us while the lighter side occupies itself with the spooky music. For the most part though, the music is really the strong point on this CD, with the lyrics taking second chair. Of course, you still have to listen to both to get the full effect, but it's the head-spinning synthesizer work that really pulls you in. Any way you look at it, Razed in Black is a force to be reckoned with, and any so-called music expert should think twice before leaving this one-man army off of yet another "comprehensive" list of industrial powerhouses.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NIN and Cubanate at their Most Rockingly Tuneful, December 4, 2001

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Riposte (Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sacrificed (Audio CD)

Although on the first listen this may appear to be little more than Industrial madness, on closer inspection this album reveals itself to be an infectiously catchy and surprisingly tuneful release from soon-to-be Industrial Gods Razed in Black.

Hailing from Hawaii of all places,Romell Regulacion,the one-man driving force behind RIB, has with this album, not only created a typically aggressive,menacing and darkly dancable Industrial affair, but has infact developed a sound that bridges the gap between the more mainstream Industrial acts such as NIN and the less commercial, noise experimentation of genre-defining luminaries such as Skinny Puppy.

Combining heavy guitars,harsh distorted vocals,dark tuneful electronics and abrasive overlapping drumloops Romell experiments with the plethora of styles Industrial Music has to offer,without ever seeming arty or alienating his audience.

Although the majority of songs here are beat-driven tracks interspersed with jagged guitar riffs the album also makes use of ominous synth atmospherics,melodic electronic bleeps and chimes as well as a host of strange and often comical found sounds.

The four segue tracks do weigh down the proceedings a little, as does the sometimes overly frenetic drumming, but on the whole there really is no song here that I wouldn't recommend.Newer Pressings of the CD now come with the fantastic Oh My Goth! Single,one of the best things RIB have ever done (along with their cover of Hell's Bells,not available on this CD).

There's not much I can say that hasn't already been stated in the previous review.This is a consistently fantastic album without one song that isn't completely enthralling.As is often the case with Industrial Music though,if you really want to enjoy this album you probably shouldn't bother with the lyrics,which can at times be painfully silly (such as on the opening to Nightmare).Nevertheless I would highly recommend this album to anyone who enjoys Noisy Industrial ROCK!!!
Can't wait for the new Full-Length.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RiB Just Keeps Getting Better, November 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Sacrificed (Audio CD)

Like in Razed in Black's debut CD ("Shrieks, Laments and Anguished Cries"), "Sacrificed" opens with moaning, this time by the all-in-one singer/guitarist/etc., Romell Regulacion, who is supposedly being "Whipped," though you may have to strain your ears to hear it. This is just the beginning of a S&M theme heard throughout the CD, especially in songs like "Lust" [#8] and back-to-back tracks #3 ("Master")--"Beg to your Master"--and #4 ("I Worship You")--"Tie me down I'm helpless / Blindfolded and gagged / Force the blade against my throat / Lick the blood against the edge." Aside from the physical pain, there are several songs that deal with more inner demons, but most of them tend to lean, again, towards masochism. There's even a good cover of Metallica's song, "Damage, Inc" on track #9. Although tracks #1 ("Whipped"), 5 ("Snooze"), 7 ("Guilty"), and 14 ("Are You There?") are just fillers, they're all enjoyable--Romell getting whipped in track #1, beating his alarm clock in #5, and making an unanswered phone call in the last track on here. Overall: this was a terrific CD. If you're a Razed in Black fan--or are just looking for something different in the goth/industrial vein--then "Sacrificed" is certainly worth buying.