31.01.2005 
III
Toadi Acceleratio
Pigs of the Roman Empire
Pink Bat
Zzzz Best
Safety Third
Idolatrous Apostate
Untitled + hidden track
King Buzzo - vocals , guitar, bass, electronics
Dale Crover - drums
Kevin Rutmanis - bass, slide bass, electronics, guitar, keeyboards
Adam Jones - guitar
B.
Lustmord - sound design, programming and production (www.lustmord.com)
recorded by Toshi at Hook Studio - additional electronics & keyboards by Sir David Scott Stone - mastering by John Golden - all songs written by King Buzzo and B: Lustmord
distributed in Switzerland by Irascible Distribution
review by Artur
Felicijan____ 
| If you're eager to get some suicidal music or you can't get into heavy state of paranoia. |
This
is the new Melvins, the latest Melvins, respectively. Since I'm not a
true die-hard fan of the Melvins I can not exactly say if this is their
34th release or is it 57th. It doesn't matter anyway, because this is
not the "Melvins only" release. It's the Melvins joining
forces with electronic/noise based artist, called Lustmord.
"Pigs
of the Roman Empire" is supposed to be one of the most listenable
albums the Melvins had put together. I guess they've forced the critics
and the fans to shape the custom criteria of their liking.
I
never managed to get the Melvins phenomena figured out. What's so
interesting about them? Is it all about the music? I
began to think that people like it, because the Melvins often represent
themselves in the musical form, that makes the listener easy to identify
with, in a way, whether one likes it or not. Also, what I find as
an important fact is that it's not about technical quality or liking the
genre itself, it's probably about knowing that musician with great
experience and name shows it's personality through the music that fights
the ideals of today's culture of pop (metal included). That's what makes
the Melvins original and honest. I remember being at their show in
Ljubljana back in 1994, and they were playing their music in front of
10,000 people. Today, they would had an audience of some 9,000 and a
half less, but they would still do their thing like they did eleven
years ago. And that's what they're all about. The spirit and dedication
to strive in being the pioneers or even the last men of this musical
movement.
"Pigs
of the Roman Empire" shows it's difference compared to the other
Melvins releases by having Lustmord on the board, obviously. They sound
less Melvins in the matter of those dark moments, created by Lustmord.
You'll get quite a few ambiental dark-wave intros, and the track
"Pigs of the Roman Empire" holds you within the corroded brain
cemetery of DO-ed babysitter's grasp for over 22 minutes. This album
stands as a whole as it's instrumental most of it's time. The
tracks are more than less linked with each other by painful sound
samples of industrial illness that complete the whole album into an evil
soundtrack from noisy landscapes of delirium.
If
you're eager to get some suicidal music or you can't get into heavy
state of paranoia while too stoned or drunk, you might consider getting
this. Or if you prefer my favorite option, when you just want to say to
your friends: "Fuck your stupid music, I listen to this seriously
strange shit!".
Anyway,
Melvins/Lustmord fans, call it listener friendly, but I think even the
early Thou Shalt Suffer rehearsal demos were a collection of sing-alongs
compared to this.
Favourite
song: The Bloated Pope (this is one truly has a commercial potential)
rating: 7/10
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