Genetic Defense - Transmission of the Subsonic
A clue for all bands: If you don’t put your address (your physical address, not just email) anywhere on the cassette or J-card, you’re beat-offs who don’t deserve a record deal. What if some label heard your demo and wanted to sign you, only to discover that there’s no god damn address anywhere? They’d thrown the whole thing in the trash and sign Inverted Bitch Fister instead. I only have this band’s address because I saved the envelope in which the tape arrived, and normally that would be the first thing to go. I’ll get on with the review now: The music is Industrial tinged Thrash, which isn’t half bad. It’s the vox and lyrics I don’t like. There’s a mild distortion on the vox and stupid phrasing of the inanely rhymed lyrics. Maybe they knew what they were doing when they left off their address.
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The Gathering - Mandylion
The new, female, vocalist adds a unique dimension to the Gothic Doom stylings of this very talented band. No growly Death vocals to be found, but plenty of meaty riffs, and so on. Nicely done, and a worthy addition to the collection of any fan of Doomy, heavy, and melodic stuff.
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Garrote - Mortuary
This band’s high energy Deathy Thrash is fine, but sometimes the singer sounds a little strained. Not that it’s bad, but this just didn’t do much for me either way.
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Gandalf - The Cradle
The amazing production is perhaps the least of this demo’s attributes. The songwriting is superb, the playing flawless, and the vocals are a raspy yell, perhaps not unlike that of At the Gates. I will say that a little polishing of the lyrics could be done, but not much.
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G//Z/R - Plastic Planet
Of course you know that this is the band of Geezer Butler, former bassist of… Fuck that - if you don’t know this, then fuck off completely. Anyway, this is way heavier than I thought it would be. Not as good, though. The idea to have the guy from Fear Factory sing probably looked good on paper, but he’s just not up to 100% most of the time. Maybe 75%. I like that Geezer wanted to be heavy, and this is a pretty good effort, but he apparently forgot that his bass work should be louder. Hell, I’m just glad to see that The Geeze is still alive and fuckin’ shit up, although this does sort of sound like Fear Factory, but with a different drummer. Upped a little out of respect for The Geeze.
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Funereal Moon - Silent Night of Full Moon Shine
This is evil ritual Ambient soundscapes. This kind of stuff relaxes me immensely, but I think it’s intended to be creepy or disturbing. I like it, but maybe not in the way I’m supposed to. Eventually some guitars and minimalistic drums show up, but they are not used in the traditional way and add to the atmosphere instead.
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Fun-Da-Mental - Seize the Time
Well, I’m the wrong guy to review any Rap albums, but I must say that the production, use of samples, and layering of the music are pretty good. The beats seem a bit more interesting than most of the other Rap I’ve heard, which isn’t much. I can’t say that I like the “kill whitey” lyrics very much, though. Or is it only racism when a white says “kill blacky”? What idiots.
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Full Circle - Negative
The very oddly colored, computer-generated, cover art led me to believe that Full Circle would be something a lot better than the Pantera clone they apparently are. It’s almost funny to think that anyone would take them seriously.
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Fuckface - Don’t Hate Us Cause We’re…
You certainly get a lot of “goodies” with this one: Two stickers, a napkin with lyrics on it, and a little zine/lyric booklet. The music is interesting (although not amazing), too: Energetic, raw Hardcore.
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