Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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39442193 | Play | La Porc | 00:00 Tools | |
39442194 | Play | This Is Your Final Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
39442195 | Play | Trapped Under a Ice | 00:00 Tools | |
39442197 | Play | Hex By Hex | 00:00 Tools | |
39442196 | Play | Cloven Head | 00:00 Tools | |
39442198 | Play | Major Strip | 00:00 Tools | |
39442201 | Play | Buttlip | 00:00 Tools | |
39442200 | Play | Treadmill of Suffering | 00:00 Tools | |
39442199 | Play | Gas Pipe | 00:00 Tools | |
39442202 | Play | Meditation on the Some Carcass | 00:00 Tools | |
39442203 | Play | We Enslaved Elves To Build Our Death Machine | 00:00 Tools | |
39442204 | Play | Corpsewielder | 00:00 Tools | |
39442205 | Play | Marca Dos Invernos | 00:00 Tools | |
39442206 | Play | Ride of the Juns | 00:00 Tools | |
39442207 | Play | Little Climbers of Nifelheim | 00:00 Tools | |
39442209 | Play | The Bringer | 00:00 Tools | |
39442208 | Play | Trbovlje | 00:00 Tools | |
39442210 | Play | Fat Cobra | 00:00 Tools | |
39442211 | Play | Human Shield | 00:00 Tools | |
39442212 | Play | Raining Sorrow | 00:00 Tools | |
39442213 | Play | Ilirska Bistrica | 00:00 Tools | |
39442214 | Play | Dolores del Rio | 00:00 Tools | |
39442215 | Play | Drifting | 00:00 Tools | |
39442216 | Play | Abscence | 00:00 Tools | |
39442217 | Play | Vile Requiem | 00:00 Tools | |
39442218 | Play | Towards Darkness | 00:00 Tools | |
88308538 | Play | Threshing the Light | 00:00 Tools | |
39442219 | Play | Dispair | 00:00 Tools | |
39442220 | Play | Mostly Michael Schenker | 00:00 Tools | |
88308539 | Play | Neuronic Channels Driven to Agitation | 00:00 Tools | |
39442221 | Play | Despair | 00:00 Tools | |
88308540 | Play | Don't Go Whaling High | 00:00 Tools | |
88308541 | Play | Ghost Fleet | 00:00 Tools | |
39442222 | Play | Rack Of Lamb Of God | 00:00 Tools | |
39442224 | Play | The Beacon | 00:00 Tools | |
39442225 | Play | Hot Karl II | 00:00 Tools | |
39442223 | Play | Maj. Strip, Pvt. Lapdance | 00:00 Tools | |
88308542 | Play | Whistle of the Void | 00:00 Tools | |
39442226 | Play | Cry Baby Jesus, Cry | 00:00 Tools | |
39442228 | Play | Knights Templars | 00:00 Tools | |
39442227 | Play | The Beacon / Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442232 | Play | Without You | 00:00 Tools | |
39442230 | Play | Reproduce and Expire | 00:00 Tools | |
39442229 | Play | The Mass | 00:00 Tools | |
39442231 | Play | Era | 00:00 Tools | |
39442233 | Play | We Enslaved Elves To Build Our | 00:00 Tools | |
39442234 | Play | the Beacon-Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442235 | Play | 3 The Beacon _ Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442237 | Play | The Beacon _ Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442236 | Play | trapped under ice | 00:00 Tools | |
39442243 | Play | Dolores Del Rio [Нью эйдж] | 00:00 Tools | |
39442238 | Play | The Battle Peaks | 00:00 Tools | |
39442239 | Play | 03-Era | 00:00 Tools | |
39442240 | Play | ... and Creates: I Am | 00:00 Tools | |
39442247 | Play | We Enslaved Elves to Build Our Death machines | 00:00 Tools | |
39442241 | Play | Absence | 00:00 Tools | |
39442242 | Play | The Battle Hurts: Waiting for Clues | 00:00 Tools | |
39442246 | Play | The Beacon Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442244 | Play | The Battle Ends: All the Good | 00:00 Tools | |
39442245 | Play | The Battle Destroys: Someone I'm Not | 00:00 Tools | |
39442248 | Play | The Beacon/Interception | 00:00 Tools | |
39442249 | Play | 03-Hex By Hex | 00:00 Tools |
"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.