The Mass

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This Is Your Final Dream 00:00 Tools
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Hex By Hex 00:00 Tools
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Major Strip 00:00 Tools
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Treadmill of Suffering 00:00 Tools
Gas Pipe 00:00 Tools
Meditation on the Some Carcass 00:00 Tools
We Enslaved Elves To Build Our Death Machine 00:00 Tools
Corpsewielder 00:00 Tools
Marca Dos Invernos 00:00 Tools
Ride of the Juns 00:00 Tools
Little Climbers of Nifelheim 00:00 Tools
The Bringer 00:00 Tools
Trbovlje 00:00 Tools
Fat Cobra 00:00 Tools
Human Shield 00:00 Tools
Raining Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Ilirska Bistrica 00:00 Tools
Dolores del Rio 00:00 Tools
Drifting 00:00 Tools
Abscence 00:00 Tools
Vile Requiem 00:00 Tools
Towards Darkness 00:00 Tools
Threshing the Light 00:00 Tools
Dispair 00:00 Tools
Mostly Michael Schenker 00:00 Tools
Neuronic Channels Driven to Agitation 00:00 Tools
Despair 00:00 Tools
Don't Go Whaling High 00:00 Tools
Ghost Fleet 00:00 Tools
Rack Of Lamb Of God 00:00 Tools
The Beacon 00:00 Tools
Hot Karl II 00:00 Tools
Maj. Strip, Pvt. Lapdance 00:00 Tools
Whistle of the Void 00:00 Tools
Cry Baby Jesus, Cry 00:00 Tools
Knights Templars 00:00 Tools
The Beacon / Interception 00:00 Tools
Without You 00:00 Tools
Reproduce and Expire 00:00 Tools
The Mass 00:00 Tools
Era 00:00 Tools
We Enslaved Elves To Build Our 00:00 Tools
the Beacon-Interception 00:00 Tools
3 The Beacon _ Interception 00:00 Tools
The Beacon _ Interception 00:00 Tools
trapped under ice 00:00 Tools
Dolores Del Rio [Нью эйдж] 00:00 Tools
The Battle Peaks 00:00 Tools
03-Era 00:00 Tools
... and Creates: I Am 00:00 Tools
We Enslaved Elves to Build Our Death machines 00:00 Tools
Absence 00:00 Tools
The Battle Hurts: Waiting for Clues 00:00 Tools
The Beacon Interception 00:00 Tools
The Battle Ends: All the Good 00:00 Tools
The Battle Destroys: Someone I'm Not 00:00 Tools
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03-Hex By Hex 00:00 Tools
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"The barrier between metal and jazz has been pierced again. Like Chicago's Yakuza, the Bay Area thrash outfit The Mass augment their high-speed, staccato riffing with fluid, almost (dare I say it) harmolodic saxophone lines from vocalist Matt Walters. There are times when Walters launches into screeching, post-Ayler solos, in the manner of Steve Mackay on the Stooges' Fun House or Bruce Lamont on Yakuza's Way Of The Dead; the just-under-90-second "Gas Pipe" is the most extreme track on the disc, from this angle. But most of the time he does something far more interesting, adapting the cyclical, repetitive riffs of thrash metal for the saxophone. This is a change from the last album, City Of Dis, where the saxophone was as prominent as the songs were crude; Walters floated atop the primitive guitar-bass-drums crunch like Ornette Coleman fronting Napalm Death. The moody "Meditations On The Some Carcass" is the biggest leap forward for the band, stylistically and technically; it layers a bleak sax solo atop a doom-metal death march, to excellent, almost psychedelic effect. For the most part, though, Perfect Picture Of Wisdom And Boldness is an unsubtle, skull-cracking record that owes as much to My War-era Black Flag as it does to intricate, knuckle-popping thrash. Walters has no interest in stopping the moshpit so listeners can admire his nimble finger technique. Fans of the Flying Luttenbachers, Paul Flaherty, and whatever's passing for underground punk rock these days will all find something here to inspire hours of spastic contortions." -- Phil Freeman, The Wire (UK) Oct 2005 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.