Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Label: Relapse Records
Release Date: 6/11/02
Rating: 5 Skulls
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Title: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed Label: Relapse Records Release Date: 6/11/02
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Reviewed by Moloch (9/4/02):
I shall define Agoraphobic Nosebleed as Industrial Grind. It's 90% blindingly fast grind most of the time. The drums are programmed and there is lots of sampling. I don't listen to very much grind due to the monotony, but this sucker is right on. Some bands can write songs, and some bands can write albums. A.N. is capable of doing both. What I mean by "write albums" is that some bands are good at ordering the tracks so you never lose interest, and this album is a perfect example. Just when I've had about enough blast beats, the next song changes the tempo, but beyond that the album is just ordered and mixed in a way where the fun never stops. It flows. And it does so in a way that sounds like one long piece of music with 38 parts as opposed to 38 back to back grind songs, which for me normally gets old around track four. My point is this: I can actually sit and listen to this whole album from beginning to end with out getting bored. A.N. manages to throw in enough variety to prevent me from yawning and changing records.Now to the lyrics. I think that the title of this album should have been, Inside the Mind of a Schizophrenic Drug Fiend Badly in Need of Anger Management, but the actual title is Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope, which works in its own right. The frenetic pacing of the songs, most of which are very short, provides a perfect platform for the raving screams and yells of these four men. While perfect for the music, the actual content is what bothers me. Now I don't want to sound like the second coming of the PMRC here, but quite a few of these songs involve abuse towards women and hatred towards homosexuals. I don't know if this is supposed to be done in some sort of "ironic" way, but if it is I'm not getting it. For instance, from the song "Bitches Handbag Full of Money:" "You're real gay about pussy. / Your bitch has got you looking in a magazine for clothes. Homo. / All I'm buying a bitch is a bag of shit to choke on." There's another song about jerking off in one's hand and "belting" a girl across the face with it. In "Razorblades Under the Dashboard" there's a line that goes "Fucking dead queer. I hope you feel real fucking dumb," and I'd try to put it in context, but I'm still not really sure what the song is actually about. I could go on, but I try to stay around 300 words, and I'm well over as it is.
Now to point out my own hypocrisies, I listen to bands like Cannibal Corpse, Burzum and other bands with very sketchy morals/politics, but there's just something in the wording here that really creeps me out. Also, I guess that for as much as I might listen to bands with sketchy morals/politics, I never take them very seriously. I am able to suspend my disbelief. But somehow with Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope, I was just unable to do that. I actually believe these guys. Maybe I was just shocked because seeing as this band has a split with Converge, I wasn't expecting these lyrics. But then, hey, maybe that's what they were going for, to creep me out. Whatever the case, this album is too good to not give 5 skulls just because I don't approve of some of the lyrics, even if they are a bunch of hatemongers.
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