Remember the systemic shock to your physiology when you realized that Al Jourgensen and Ministry could make Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails sound something akin to the Cowsills? [those of you too young to remember the Cowsills should immediately refer to allmusic.com for some remedial information transfer]. Well, whatever industrial and/or metal you’re into at the moment, even if you can’t bring yourself to yank that 3 Inches of Blood set from your car player, I can pretty much promise that Anaal Nathrakh is more intense, more extreme, and, yes, more brutal.
I have two albums, purchased as a value-priced set: The Codex Necro, and When Fire Rains Down From the Sky Mankind Will Reap as it as Sown. These are both absolutely phenomenal. Creative. Interesting. Massive. No home should be without.
absolutely brutal—
and excellent—albums.
Now. What could possibly be “brutal” about a Bob Marley and the Wailers album? Well, it could be a recording of the last concert before Marley’s death from metastasizing melanoma. It was in Pittsburgh in 1980. The tour was cut short when Marley grew ill and went to Germany to spend months undergoing futile “alternative” treatment for his cancer. To the obvious tragedy of his truncated life, this set adds the fact that his music and stage presence were moving and growing and getting bigger and broader and better. The show includes a bunch of new stuff along with truly creative and rockin’ versions of older material. The I Threes in particular are in awesome voice.
It’s clear that, like Jimi Hendrix, if he’d lived, the music we listen to now would be very different from what it is.
Marley’s last album. Best
Buy includes an “exclusive”
third disk with a 5 song EP
of mostly Jamaican mixes
and releases. And for the
moment the entire set is an
incredible bargain at $12.
And a final question. What could possibly be “brutal” about a movie starring Helen Mirren? If it’s violent action comedy Red, also starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and John Malkovich, essentially everything. Especially when Mirren gets her hands on a .50 caliber machine gun.
Action comedy starring
Helen Mirren and various
weapons, including a
.50 caliber automatic.
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