Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort

Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort
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Violet Run Trouver la Mort Violet Run = The Cure + The Shroud + Love Spirals Downward   Violet Run skirts the fine line between sorrowful sincerity and fancy-pants whininess dangerously, but for the most part, are able to stick to the realm of the earnest. They’re a bit over the top, but it’s hard

Review: God Dethroned – Lair Of The White Worm

Review: God Dethroned – Lair Of The White Worm
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GOD DETHRONED LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM  Metal Blade God Dethroned = Behemoth + Krisiun + Hate Eternal + Seance   From the Netherlands, God Dethroned have been at it for over ten years now. Their first album, Christhunt, was released if I remember correctly in 1992, and received some minimal praise in the newly

Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh

Review: Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh
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MORTICIAN RE-ANIMATED DEAD FLESH  Mortician Records Mortician = Do you really need this? Okay- Cannibal Corpse + Napalm Death + Incantation   The seventh album from the Relapse Records-professed “World’s Heaviest Band” is unleashed upon the world! Imagine tuning your guitar so low it sounds like a low-tuned bass, and your bass tuning is so

Review: Carpathian Forest – We’re Going To Hollywood For This DVD

Review: Carpathian Forest – We’re Going To Hollywood For This...
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CARPATHIAN FOREST WE’RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR THIS DVD  Seasons of Mist Carpathian Forest = Satyricon + Dark Throne + Bethlehem + Dissection   From Norway, Carpathian Forest play black metal. Not interested yet? What about seeing them live? Still not interested? What about the nude dancers they have come out on stage during every

Review: Venomous Concept – Retroactive Abortion

Review: Venomous Concept – Retroactive Abortion
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Venomous Concept Retroactive Abortion Venomous Concept’s album Retroactive Abortion has received mediocre to poor reviews in magazines larger than SLUG. I doubt any writers from those magazines spent their youth in rural Utah County searching for anything weird or obnoxious to counterbalance daily threats from rabid hicks. I don’t think anyone who looks for “pop

Review: M.O.D – Cocktail Chant

Review: M.O.D – Cocktail Chant
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M.O.D. “COCKTAIL CHANT”  Purple Tracks After much success with their release of “Dance Avec Moi” (Device Records) and the more recent recommended remix of “He is the Joy” by Donna Allen (Soulfuric), Juan Sunshine and Staffan Thorsell (MOD), are back at it again with their four-piece group, heading production on this funky house release. High-class

Review: The Funk Ensamble – Skunk

Review: The Funk Ensamble – Skunk
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THE FUNK ENSAMBLE “SKUNK” Purple Tracks From the label that has brought you KOT—”So Alive” (Purple Tracks) and the infamous Michelle Weeks “The Light” (Purple Music) comes the latest installment of funk and gospel. Produced by Dario Dattis (the man behind Inaya Day’s “Freedom” PM026), this Saturday-night church-floor-filler will keep your crowd in an ass-shaken’

Review: Soul Khula Feat. Miss Identity – Fire

Review: Soul Khula Feat. Miss Identity – Fire
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SOUL KHULA FT. MISS IDENTITY “FIRE”  (NNY/Groove Junkies mixes) Undo/Gossip After their success with “Saturday Night,” the South African artist Soul Khula produces another follow-up hit, Fire. In a soulful laid-back house style, this number is a perfect track for the beginning of your club night. On the NNY side, this rough-and-tough remix is peak

Review: Tanja Dankner – Will I Ever

Review: Tanja Dankner – Will I Ever
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TANJA DANKNER “WILL I EVER” Purple Music Originally produced in 2000 by famous TV German/Turkish showman Stefan Raab (www.tvtotal.de ), who is known for his composing, acting, producing and TV appearances, this new release from Purple Music is blowin’ up the speakers. Now in a downright groovy manner, PM’s Jamie Lewis takes this bumpin’ lover

Review: Powd[e]r Pussy – Six Ways From Sunday

Review: Powd[e]r Pussy – Six Ways From Sunday
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POWD[E]R PUSSY SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY Pflichtkauf “This is a pussy blowout!” The collaborative efforts of Ah-Cama Sotz and This Morn’ Omina is as impressive as the solo work from their individual projects. Six Ways from Sunday is where Pow[d]er Pussy converts anybody reluctant to listen to rhythm noise into a devoted fan. Twelve tracks