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Anteater · 05-16-2014, 05:54 PM

^ Putting the best parts of No Prayer For The Dying and Fear Of The Dark together would have been awesome, but seven tracks probably isn't enough, lol!

Anyway, I've been pretty busy lately, but I think I'll just do a quick run down of the albums I listened to this week and "rate" them. Consider this an act of mercy from me considering how fat my typical reviews are.

Chromeo - White Women (2014)

One of the better dance/funk/pop albums I've heard in awhile, but I find myself pining for their vocoder antics of yesteryear. The synths are sugarwall and pretty rad though, so that's worth a few headbobs on my part.

3/5

Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise (1993)

Better than you'd expect, but it ultimately doesn't work as a thrash/hip-hop hybrid or whatever category bus the masses threw this under when it came out. Hell, even Pantera were heavier than this circa '93, not to mention other 80's holdovers like Warrior Soul and Megadeth. Pass!

2/5

Casualties Of Cool - Casualties Of Cool (2014)

Twenty four hours later with this and I'm already convinced it's better than Ghost and Ki, two albums which were already in top tier territory for Devin Townsend. How he manages to cut albums this exquisite in territory so far removed from his metal roots is beyond my meager understanding...but hell, I'm not complaining.

5/5

I Mother Earth - Scenery And Fish (1996)

Not as good as 1993's Dig, but as far as the funk metal/alternative rock progeny of the decade went, its hard not to feel at least a bit charmed by these Canadians spacefaring, bass-heavy odysseys into musical and lyrical obscurity: weird and fun in equal measure.

4/5