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IRON LUNG Sexless//No Sex CD (Prank) Some bands want to create a mood with flowing riffs and steady rhythms, while others want to get your blood pumping and bring out the spastic in you. Iron Lung are definitely part of the latter category and don't have much time over for steady rhythms. With that said I have to state that they're not totally out of control, just that their intense violent hardcore/power violence are very aggressive and in your face, always on the brink of chaos. But to not paint a completely wrong picture here I better add that they do have their slower parts as well, especially in the title track and the last track "Cancer" which are also the two tracks that are over two minutes long. The first times I listened to this it was the fast stuff that grabbed my attention, but after a while it was the slower stuff that got the upper hand. Now after enough listens to get the full picture I find it to be a pretty even battle from start to finish, with a slight advantage for the spastic outbursts. The twenty tracks on here last for twenty-one minutes so at whatever speed they're operating in at the time they don't leave much room for unnecessary fillers on this power violent sludge fest. Personally I'm not completely persuaded by the disc as a whole, but there are enough good parts for me to give it an overall good grade. [Krogh - February 26, 2008] Prank Records, P.O. Box 410892, San Francisco, CA 94141-0892, USA www.prankrecords.com |
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