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Obsessis
2000
Cold Meat Industry
51:04
You can't get much more extreme than this. Roger Karmanik's sickening
noise assault reaches new levels of frenzied unpleasantness in this his
new release, packaged in a deceptively fetching white and pink cover,
all pretty innocence until you start to realise what the blonde's got
dripping down her face. Some of the music, if music it be, has a raw humour
to it - funny in the same way that The Hills Have Eyes is a funny
film, or Munch's The Dance of Life is a funny painting - check
out the Stones cover 'I Can't Get No Sadistfaction', but generally its
just a full on power electronics gush of hate and spite aimed at a predictable
set of targets. All in all Obsessis is as uncomfortable listening
as you're likely to get, short of the sound of a baby pig having its throat
cut with a hacksaw ("it don't hurt him so bad, I guess he's laughing at
us Mom"). The standout opening and closing tracks, in particular, have
the power to strip the paint from your walls. Fans of the films of Jim
Van Bebber have here a set of ready made soundtracks to his charmless
bloodbath excesses, try BDN with your Roadkill and your gallon
of extra strong lager. Nauseating of course, the lot of it. Why listen
to this, when you could be in church?
STEWART GOTT - 8 March 2001
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