Okay, there's alternative metal...and there's just the plain bizarre! File Naked City alongside Exit 13, and Mr Bungle. It's the creation of jazz musician and all round freaky genius John Zorn, released on the Earache label, it coincided with a torrent of other surreal experimentation's from the industrial/avant-garde scene, and somehow slotted into a niche that metal would never have dreamed of some ten years previous. naked City would be pretty much unlistenable mayhem to your average metaller, so if you're a bit of a purist looking for head banging, fist clenching power metal, please walk away. However, if you're after 42 (yes, 42!!) songs of extreme epileptic genius then grab yourself a copy...NOW! There's no real point in trying to explain naked City's style of music, there isn't one. Whereas Mr Bungle created lengthy pornographic cartoon nightmares, naked City slap you in the face with twenty-second lumps of phlegm that mix jazz, hip-hop, spaghetti, slapstick comedy, horror soundtrack, thrash, folk, industrial, hardcore, county and western...blah blah...don't try to predict or get any idea from the song titles, 'Thrash Jazz Assassin', 'Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh', Igneous Ejaculation' and 'Gob Of Spit' might as well be numbered or untitled, because in reality it's just a scary, freakish carnival of sounds, noises, jerks, twists, bumps, grinds and spastic mutterings.
Great!
8/10
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