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| | Buried Secrets/Guts of a Virgin | | | Music Artist : | | Painkiller | | Music Style : | | Death Metal | | Record Label : | | Earache Records | | Release Date : | | 1998-02-24 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Scud Attack
2. Deadly Obstacle Collage
3. Damage to the Mask
4. Guts of a Virgin
5. Handjob
6. Portent
7. Hostage
8. Lathe of God
9. Dr. Phibes
10. Purgatory of Fiery Vulvas
11. Warhead
12. Devil's Eye
13. Tortured Souls
14. One-Eyed Pessary
15. Trailmarker
16. Blackhole Dub
17. Buried Secrets
18. Ladder
19. Executioner
20. Black Chamber
21. Skinned
22. Toll
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 ...smooth jazz anyone?
Submitted on: 2008-04-01 |
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...this is by far one of the most incriminating things ever done to a saxophone...although simple high pitched dissonance John Zorn does the job very well...and the first time I heard it I just thought it was a computer who altered someone's screaming voice...
...very simply this music is dark and improvised...the bass creates an atmospheic drone while the drums create the pace...and the saxophone creates the chaos above it...in one of the records there is some singing/screaming...but most of it is instrumental...
...guts of a virgin is my favourite out of the two mainly because it's the first one I heard...via finetune...but listen to this and I can honestly say you haven't heard something so dark and heavy with a saxophone (and if you have don't rub it in my face)...but yes...I'd recommend it to all with an eclectic taste... |
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? OH MY GOD!!!
Submitted on: 2006-03-18 |
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| This was the first rock cd I bought (after years of new age pabalum) and after hearing good things about John Zorn (who at the time was the premier catalyst in the avant-rock scene), picked Guts of a Virgin (now neatly packaged with Buried Secrets) and the aforementioned screaming (sung by lead Boredoms vocalist Yamatsuka Eye)on the first track and John Zorn's skronk turned me on to the whole Knitting Factory scene. I can't say this would be the first cd to buy in the John Zorn cadre because his different projects (Masada, Naked City, Cobra) are so markedly different. However, if you like noise but with some structure then this head splitting, gut wrenching blast will be to your taste. What has turned off some John Zorn listeners is his genre jumping music such as Cobra which changes character sometimes from one minute to another and can be irritating is not in evidence here. Though the pieces are short (sometimes a few seconds)they are all in character. Death metal fans might find Painkiller too avant-garde and free jazz fans might find it too rockist but anyone who appreciated the downtown scene (this includes members of Sonic Youth)at a time when Williamsburg was just another train stop will find this to be most rewarding. |
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 Hit the Nail on the Head with this one
Submitted on: 2005-03-28 |
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| By the title I mean the other reviews described it well. But I would also like to recommend other artist out of the Zorn genre. If you like this try also The Iceburn Collective - Meditavolutions. Not as heavy a bass line in that album but, just as good. Bill Laswell is just awesome to be able to from the ambient style of bass to this wild, full of effects, hardcore bass playing. John Zorn's sax sounds as though it is a DJ scratching. Then the album just turns in to the ultimate jam album. Very experimental and recommend this album for anyone looking for something different. |
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 Not as good as Execution Ground, but I'd still buy it!
Submitted on: 2003-08-29 |
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| Great album that will grow on you overtime. Not for the faint hearted though... If you're not into Naked City's "Torture Garden" this may not be the CD for you... Quite different from the other Pain Killer "Execution Ground." I enjoy it - although I don't listen to it all that often... |
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Not as good as Naked City, but still very, very good.
Submitted on: 2002-08-12 |
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| Take one of the loud manic sections off of a Naked City album, expand it to fit an entire album, give it a metallic bass line, and faster drums, and what you have is Painkiller, the band voted most likely to annoy parents or other elders. Painkiller, a trio consisting John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris, is Zorn's venture into the world of death metal / grindcore. In attempting this, he succeeds. The album's opener, "Scud Attack" is one of the most intense tracks I have ever heard, with Zorn's saxophone sounding alternately like a (perishing) cat and a generator powering up, one is forced to wonder if they will be able to keep up this intensity throughout the entire album. And they somehow manage to. This however, is as much, is as a curse as a blessing. In Naked City, Zorn knew how to balance this manic tendency with quiet peices. Here, there is no such thing, no let up whatsoever, making for an amazing, but also at times annoying and repetive listening. Considering that, I recommend this album to everyone, but I must also make a further recommendation that if you want Zorn at his best try the Naked City self-titled or Radio. Painkiller is an experiment and, while the experiment is successful, it is this success that holds the band and the album from its full potential. |
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