The malevolent sound of 1349 wasn’t the scariest thing at the Riot Room last Thursday. Repugnant odors were far more horrifying than the music of the Norwegian black metal band. Combined with the acidic smell of dry ice, the stench of dank hair that filled the air as hirsute members of the audience began headbanging to 1349’s opening selection “I Am Abomination” caused me to involuntarily retch. The rancid funk couldn’t prevent me from grinning at the band’s face paint and the ostensibly evil hand gestures made by some of 100 or so fans and thrill-seekers who paid $15 to see the show. It looked and sounded a lot like this. Jackson May wrote a more respectful account of the show for Mills Record Company.
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I reviewed last night’s Winter Jam festival at the Sprint Center.
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I write weekly music previews for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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I reviewed Matt Hopper’s First Love at Plastic Sax.
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Strange but true: a band named Agoraphobic Nosebleed created my favorite song of January. "Not a Daughter" floors me.
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The self-titled album by Bloodiest is RIYL: Tool, rawk, Big Black.
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On paper, Tortoise should be one of my favorite bands. I admire the theoretical impulse behind the music. The reality is quite different. Like most other Tortoise projects, The Catastrophist does little for me. RIYL: the lack of swing, Stereolab, soullessness.
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Dave Mustaine sounds like he’s running for office on Megadeth’s Dystopia. He doesn’t have my vote. Here’s the title track.
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I suppose I’m obligated to have a take on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “White Privilege II”: I prefer to atone in private. Tying oneself up into knots in public is bound to backfire.
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Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield are charming as the I Don’t Cares on the modest Wild Stab. RIYL: The dB’s, demos, Alex Chilton.
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Adrian Younge’s Something About April II is kitschy fun. RIYL: Isaac Hayes, blaxploitation flicks, Honey Cone.
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If Yes had been a black metal band, it would have sounded like Borknager. Winter Thrice is RIYL: Game of Thrones, pomp, Coheed and Cambria. The title track is glorious.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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