Dead Fly Boy - Self-Titled Debut
Kinda groovy, but heavy music. The vocals are mostly yelled, but occasionally sung in a smoother style, and sometimes quickly rapped. It’s an interesting sound, something like Exhorder. Pretty cool, and the songs are fairly memorable, too.
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Dawn (Belgium) - Live in Ternat op 30 Juli 1994
This is more ambient than the De Eerste Sneeuw recordings, and is almost like being in a room with the members of Dawn while they try out various sonic experimentations. Some work well, such as the track which has a dully throbbing synth sound, with screaming in the background - almost as if you were hearing a murder in the next room. But not everything is as dark or scary as that track. I do think that every recording is supposed to be different, and they certainly accomplish that.
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Dawn (Belgium) - Treestory
Dawn is a more “musical” project from the Steinbock camp, but his Noise influence is still strong. The collage of sounds is harsh and not always as well assembled as, say, Smell & Quim. But the really fucked up part is that every now and again, Rat will sing over the top of it all, in a sort of nursery rhyme voice, and that sounds really crazy, but it’s evil. An almost scary release.
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David La Duke - Rock with Balls
More Hard Rockin’ songs. The vocals grate on my nerves, but if you like this sort of thing, then this is the one.
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David La Duke - Absolute Rock in the Buff
For being recorded live, using only two microphones in their practice room, this sounds great! David is the hardest working man in Rock, and it always shows in his music. If you like plain Hard Rock, then look no further, as it shall not get better or more honest then this. I, however, do not like Hard Rock, but I do respect this man and his work.
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Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Somewhere under the 666 layers of tape hiss is Darkthrone’s 4th album, and sad to say, it’s the worst yet. I worshipped these guys’ first two albums, but this is just ridiculous. The first song, which is the title track, displays two riffs. Both riffs contain two notes a piece, and are repeated a combined 44 times (yes, I counted)! And this is the album’s best tune. I can’t understand why this LP only has one drum beat, or why the production is so horrible that it’s degrading at best. The only cool thing about this record is that Burzum mastermind Varg Virkenes wrote the lyrics for the last four tracks. Too bad he couldn’t have written the music also.
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D.R.I. - Live
Some live recordings sound really terrible, and some sound like the studio versions of the songs with two seconds of crowd noise between them. D.R.I. manage to really pull off a difficult trick, and have recorded a live album that actually sounds live, but still clear. They also amazed me when I discovered that the lyrics for all the songs are included. That’s certainly a first in the history of live albums. Hey, I don’t really have to tell you what probably the first Punk/Thrash crossover band sounds like, do I?
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D.H.I. - Pressures Collide
Weird Industrial, with possibly Techno and Ambient elements thrown in. Sometimes interesting sounds are produced, although not very often. I don’t have a lot of knowledge about this style, but this did very little for me.
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Cyclone Temple - My Friend Lonely
Another new label and another new singer. Fortunately, Sonny seems to be an excellent choice of vocalist - very aggressive and energetic. Fulton has again written some excellent songs, as he always does, and all of their Building Errors… EP is also here (one track as a “hidden” bonus track - which I think is a goofy idea, although the song is fine), but in re-recorded form, since I guess it’s now out of print (so I suppose the review of it is useless). Awesome job guys, but let’s hear more new stuff soon.
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