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| | Churn | | | Music Artist : | | Shihad | | Music Style : | | General | | Release Date : | | 2004-01-20 | | Store Price : | | $31.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $31.99 | |
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 New Zealand Doing What It Does Best
Submitted on: 2002-08-29 |
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I am a devoted Shihad/Pacifier Fan who fully supports their recent name change and wishes them all the best for further sucess in America. Anyway this particular album used to be my least favourite of the quartet until I decided listen to it while studying a few nights ago. I was blown away, I couldn't help but get up and play air guitar. Screwtop, with it's insane riffs and brutal drumming it had me in a frenzy. This hole album has had a lasting effect on me now despite in my opinion some of the track sounding quite similar.
The Opening Track, Factory starts with a interesting drum start played on the high-hat before it brings in a huge verse and chorus and thats pratty much the tone for the whole album, Raw Metal. Although Stations allows you to breathe for a while it still maintains a sense of raw emotion that hasn't been topped in another of their albums. Although they may sound fresher and more polished now it doesn't quite reach the energy level produced with a listen to this. Shihad must have been fired before the went into the studio for this one and It shows in every track. Killer Debut, No Question. |
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 Churning guitars and brutal rhythms
Submitted on: 2000-12-20 |
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| Shihad's first LP suffers not through its lack of grunt or angst, but sometimes through an excess of industrially churning guitars and brutal drums and bass. This is not necessarily a bad thing - especially so when softer tracks such as 'Bone Harvest' and 'Stations' are interspersed throughout the white-hot metal to cool things down a bit. The latter of the two, in particular, is a beautifully slow burning rock song that hints of things that were later to come in Shihad's catalogue. 'I Only Said', the single that unexpectedly went to no.3 on the NZ singles chart, is the standout track on the album. Throughout, with the aid of Killing Joke maestro Jaz Coleman, lead singer Toogood rails against conformity, mechanistic society ('Factory' and 'The Happy Meal') and vents his spleen in such a angry fashion that its impossible not to feel his angst even if sometimes its unclear just what the hell hes raving on about. Anger, does, of course, mix perfectly with rock and roll - and on 'Churn' Shihad gets the mix almost exactly right. |
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