Before I begin my usual lengthy screed re: the Slab du Jour, here’s the year-end wrap of what and/or who mattered @ SLN. It’s no Top 10 list, I pretty much hated what I heard in 2007, thus:
- Mars: Thanks for your contributions here. I might’ve nuked this thing permanently if you hadn’t stepped in [...]
CONSUMERS – All My Friends Are Dead
Call me a Luddite, but things plain ain’t as good as they used to be– and that’s coming from a guy who hates alla that “old dude” talk. I actually do make an attempt, (however feeble) to stay on top of what the “kids” are diggin’ these daze… and as I should I guess, I [...]
Glooviness Rive!
BLUES CREATION – Live!
Straight from the Japan Folk Jamboree Circa 1971 comes Thee Mighty Blues Creation with their brand of electrified/electrifying bastardized heavy rock riffage. Yer unworthy earholes will have an audial orgasm as Lord of Hot Licks Kazuo ‘Flash’ Takeda and his band of not-so-merry-men stomp all over those foolish notions you had about [...]
Demolición!
LOS SAICOS – Wild Teen Punk From Peru, 1965
Such. Jaw-droppingly. Astounding. Savagery! Los Saicos did not so much play their instruments as they attacked ‘em, spewing Dick Dale-esque, bloody-knuckled, double-picked riffing coated with echoplex abuse and the slashing chords of punk topped off with truly otherworldly vox courtesy of Erwin Flores (who admitted being influenced [...]
Lord of Chaos
BLOOD AXIS – The Gospel of Inhumanity
Undoubtedly, this will be the most controversial album I’ll ever post. Blood Axis is the brainchild of Michael Moynihan, more infamous for his contribution to popular myth– that being his tome on the Norwegian black metal scene, “Lords of Chaos”, than for his music. Which is unfortunate, as [...]
