"Never Fucking Again" is a great song to play when you're careening through the hills on a two-lane at midnight at excessive speeds. In fact, so are "Cataclysm Nihilism", "Genesis of the Antichrist", and the title cut, the best things here. Lyrically, I assume the titles tell the story; very little of V.I.T.R.I.O.L.'s roar is intelligible. But give the machine-gun drummer here some due; and the guitar riffs pound like oppression itself. Can't say I'll play this very often, and I imagine the apocalypse sounding more like Jessica Simpson, truth be told, but as far as death metal goes, I got the thrills I bargained for. The reissue pads things out with three more songs; damned if I can tell the difference between them.
Also out this week: A serviceable 2002 hits-oriented single disc best-of, Ultimate Dolly Parton on Sony International; post-rock experimental Chicago band The Race's 2002 album The Perfect Gift on Flameshovel; some 4-disc boxed collections of old albums by America, Argent, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, The Four Lads, The Modernaires, and Jerry Vale, all called Collectables Classics on Collectables; Den of Thieves by the Trews, a 2002 Jack Douglas production that flopped, on Red Ink; Collection: 2006 Edition by Kiwi new-wavers Split Enz on EMI; the U.K. versions of Aftermath, Between The Buttons and Out of Our Heads by the Rolling Stones on Universal Japan; and Constant Pressure, by electronica act Beat Pharmacy, on Wave.
Article comments
1 - Diane Ensey
One of the best concerts I have every gone to was Rita Lee's first concert in Brasilia after being censored/banned by the government. That was 1983. There was a cyclone fence between the crowd and that stage was pushed down pretty fast. When the police started hitting people who were trying to get close to the stage Rita stopped singing and lambasted the police. They backed off.
2 - uao
Hey that's a great anecdote, Diane! Thanks for sharing the memory, I love it when people do that.