SM's second opus before the industrial reinvention that was 'Violent New Breed'. This has all the usual sleaze rock trappings, from Skold's raspy vox and the driving, dirty rhythms- at times better than average, but often mundane when you consider what quality was around at the same time - too many bands refusing to move with the times signalled the end for a genre. Sub-standard G 'n' R grooves, 'Living Without You' could pass for Green Day in today's climate - that's not a good thing, whilst elsewhere it attempts to grab its crotch but never exists beyond a catty, scratchy fever that begins to irritate. Nice work if you can get it I'm sure but I've heard it all before guys.Friday 15 July 2011
Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming (1991)
SM's second opus before the industrial reinvention that was 'Violent New Breed'. This has all the usual sleaze rock trappings, from Skold's raspy vox and the driving, dirty rhythms- at times better than average, but often mundane when you consider what quality was around at the same time - too many bands refusing to move with the times signalled the end for a genre. Sub-standard G 'n' R grooves, 'Living Without You' could pass for Green Day in today's climate - that's not a good thing, whilst elsewhere it attempts to grab its crotch but never exists beyond a catty, scratchy fever that begins to irritate. Nice work if you can get it I'm sure but I've heard it all before guys.
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