March 10, 2014

Slough Feg cannot resist everything digital as they disseminate Digital Resistance

 Slough Feg/Digital Resistance (2014)-Review:
[Album Rating: Near-Classic 9/10.]
[Country: USA. Genre: Heavy Metal.]

Friends, Slough Feg have produced a fine slab for their new label Metal Blade. This comes as no surprise to anyone because EVERYONE falls into one of two categories: (A) Person knows about Slough Feg and their extended history of tasty, cerebral classic heavy metal -- thus there is no surprise upon hearing a groovy set of SF tunes like this one; OR (B) Person does not know about heavy metal at all and thus would express only confusion, not surprise, when informed that The Lord Weird Slough Feg has assembled another rip-roaring kick-ass romp of metallic proportions.

The fact that this album is available digitally (and we actually purchased it digitally) presents only a slight setback en route to the greater goal of resisting the digital takeover of our lives. Scalzi & Company have a clever concept behind this album, making an appeal for sanity that almost no one ever makes anymore...

At the very least do not insanely multi-task when listening to this album! If tweeting, selfie-ing, and Facebooking your March Madness partialities must be done, honor the creators and please complete those crucial actions when this tape/vinyl/MP3 is not running! 

In a nutshell: Digital Resistance is a particularly tightly crafted album -- at its very best on resident scorchers such as Laser Enforcer which features cascading riffage that will leave you at once satisfied and clawing for more. 

Carcass resurrects to channel their proper follow-up to their signature slab, Heartwork

 Carcass/Surgical Steel (2013)-Review:
[Album Rating: Near-Classic 9/10.]
[Country: UK. Genre: Melodic Death.]

Carcass resurrects to channel their proper follow-up to their signature slab of licorice pizza, Heartwork. Released in 1993, that one was. 2013, this one. Now, 20 years is about as long of a piss break as you can take, but hey, we'll take it -- this eviscerating offering proves that time itself is meaningless!

Carcass = Unfit For Human Consumption!
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