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ACID BATH
WHEN THE KITE STRING THE POPE |
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| | Reviews: 60 |
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| Average Rating: 9.73 |
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We dropped some acid,... then we hit the road
by The Bass Ninja ghjg
Reviewed on February 29th, 2004
Acid Bath is simply one of the most original metal acts to ever come out of America. When The Kite String Pops is brutal, punishing, disturbing, bleak, beautiful, poetic, serene, and more. The juxtapostion of seemingly every style of heavy music with vividly poetic yet troubling lyrics and Dax Rigg's croon must be heard to be believed. A run-through of my personal favorites goes like this:"Tranquilized" - a groovy, 70's-rock song wtih catchy vocals and a cool, Sabbath-like middle section. Badass. "Finger Paintings Of The Insane" - an ominous, disturbing, downright scary track. Dax's echoed vocals and the high-register guitar fills creepily match the slow, hypnotic tempo. Some spooky lyrics as well. "Rape the mother, kill the father". "Jezebel" - breathtaking. Starts out as a full-on death metal assault. However, it eventually breaks down into a slow, disturbing hypnosis like "Finger Paintings". Also, this probably has the best lyrics on the record, from the classic opening lines, to the "screams bloody murder as they chop off her fingers" part. Excellent. "Scream Of The Butterfly" - although it's a little to goth for me, this is still a gorgeous ballad about abortion. The bass playing by Audie is pretty good, and the lyrics are poetic as always. "Toubabo Koomi" - musically, this track has a lot of stuff going on. It starts out as a punkish moshpit song, but it gradually breaks down into almost melodic metal. And at the end, guitars squall into feedback while Dax cryptically chants "I did a line".
Also the album's first and only single/video. "The Bones Of Baby Dolls" - kinda shows their Cajun roots. This song is simply gorgeous, from it's three main acoustic guitar riffs to the processed vocals to some of the best lyrics Dax ever wrote. "Like bottle glass scraping across the pavement." "Cassie Eats Cockroaches" - the first song I heard by them. Very heavy metal with that opening riff, and it's loaded with double bass drumming and movie dialouge samples, most famously from
'A Clockwork Orange'. Dax's sexually disturbing lyrics are simple mind-boggling. How does one think of that? Even the tracks I didn't mention ("Blue", "Cheap Vodka", "Dope Fiend", "Dr. Seuss Is Dead", "God Machine", "What Color Is Death", and particularly "The Mortician's Flame") all are amazing. Dax Riggs, Mike Sanchez, Sammy Pierre Duet, Audie Pitre, and Jimmy Kyle, thank you for crafting a powerful, emotional, and immortal album. May the Acid Bath cult live on. Peace out.
More "When The Kite String The Pope" reviews:
[2005-01-11] if you don't listen to this, you're not metal (10)
[2004-10-22] When the kite string pops (10)
[2004-10-04] never again (10)
[2004-08-16] Stupid People Shouldn't Breed (10)
[2004-07-13] The Album Only Acid Bath Could Make (10)
[2004-05-28] Buy This CD (8)
[2004-02-29] We dropped some acid,... then we hit the road (10)
[2004-02-28] Another Awesome Louisiana Band (10)
[2004-02-23] One of the most creative and diverse albums ever... (10)
[2004-02-14] Excellent (10)
[2004-02-14] Just Another Positive Review (10)
[2003-08-01] Awesome (10)
[2003-06-11] Revision of earlier statement... (10)
[2003-06-07] You Just Don't Know (10)
[2003-06-06] Untouchable (10)
[2003-04-24] GREAT! (10)
[2003-03-27] Truly Frightening (10)
[2002-12-16] The mass media is a bunch of 12 yrs olds (10)
[2002-12-06] that other guy is right (6)
[2002-09-24] PLEASE! (10)
[2002-07-17] yeah (10)
[2002-07-13] One of the most over looked albums ever (10)
[2002-07-02] Acid Bath's first CD (10)
[2002-05-24] words cannot describe the greatness of acid bath (10)
[2002-04-20] It was a dark and stormy night in Louisiana (10)
[2002-03-14] not enough stars... (10)
[2001-12-15] Southern-fried death rock? (10)
[2001-12-05] Hymns of the needle freak (10)
[2001-11-03] masterpiece (10)
[2001-09-27] 5star music, 2star vocals (2)
[2001-08-16] Flawless Masterpeice..Yet Still Overlooked.... (10)
[2001-06-21] Undescribeable (10)
[2001-06-21] Heavy Metal With Substance (8)
[2001-04-25] The best (10)
[2001-03-07] Brilliant (10)
[2001-02-12] THE best band in the world (10)
[2001-02-09] Great band:Awesome album (10)
[2000-12-24] A disturbing, moody, harsh, masterpiece (10)
[2000-12-04] Acid throat (10)
[2000-09-04] Breathless.... (10)
[2000-08-10] the most original band ever (10)
[2000-08-08] Acid Bath (10)
[2000-08-05] bad as hell (10)
[2000-05-28] Scream Of The Butterfly Error (10)
[2000-04-21] Original Wicked Music (10)
[2000-04-20] MESMERIZING AND MIND-BLOWING STUFF! (10)
[1999-12-01] Nothing less than a masterpiece (10)
[1999-11-01] Acid Bath are not just a doom metal band... (10)
[1999-10-02] Unbelievably Wicked Stufff (10)
[1999-09-20] Derranged freaks we all wonder about. (10)
[1999-07-14] sick (10)
[1999-05-13] New Orleans' best metal band (10)
[1999-05-04] Gut wrenching crunchy metal (10)
[1999-01-14] A primal release of voilent energy. (10)
[1998-12-22] acid bath create eerily evil, blues-tainted, heavy music... (10)
[1998-12-21] Every time I hear it, it sounds like the first time. (10)
[1998-12-17] best cd (10)
[1998-11-27] this cd rules (10)
[1998-11-19] This album kicks more ass than anything I have ever heard. (10)
[1998-06-22] Beauty in strange places... (10)
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