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04/13/09, 07:21 PM
Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live
Record Label : Robcore Records
Release Date : January 27, 2009
It's really a disapointment when the most entertaining things on an album are the double entendres. Rob Crow (under the alias Lord Phallus) of Pinback fame makes his second foray into the doom metal genre with Come With Me If You Want to Live. However, not even Crow can make the most monotonous doom album entertaining or enjoyable.
"Hisless" starts things off as a pretty nice acoustic intro, with just a taste of some electronic elements. It gives the relaxing, yet haunting signature found in Pinback. The next song, "Loch" contains a pretty redundant chord progression that ultimately goes nowhere. Crow tries to diferentiate his voice from when he sings in Pinback by adding some vocal effects, but overall it just sounds like he's trying too hard. Luckily this is one of the only times he does this.
"Big Up Your Willies" shows much more Pinback/Crow influences than the previous song, as well as gives another taste of electronic elements as seen earlier. This song proves itself to be one of the highlights of the album by providing a dreamlike state for the listener. Even though it contains the faults that plagued the other songs, this one is able to use redundancy for the better, giving a relaxing feeling yet still retaining the heaviness as seen elsewhere.
The next track, "We Got a Bleeder" provides a much poppier sound than the other songs, but it still has the familliar heaviness. It proves itself as almost a fist-pounding anthem, with the overly catchy main riff. Unfortunately, after this point, the entertainment value halts prematurely, as the next four tracks are extremely forgettable, and just sound like a chunky mess. "Mylar" seems to pick up the pace in riffing and looks to be an interesting song, but it just blows its load too early, and becomes another redundant song that's barely distinguishable from the rest. "Tom's Song" shows a little more creativity than the others by providing a combination of acoustic riffs as well as heavily distorted ones. The pace is finally picked up in the finisher, "Trying To Get Along With Humans", where the song hits the ears fast and hard, but unfortunately, it doesn't compensate for the monotony of the other tracks.
Overall, the album sounds a lot like the most boring Pinback songs with the distortion turned way up. This isn't to say that the album is trash, because there are definitely some solid tracks on it. If you're a fan of stoner/doom metal or Rob Crow, you should definitly at least listen to the first few songs to see if you like it. For everyone else however, there's nothing on here really that will convince you to listen to doom metal.
However, if you're a fan of mythical creature genitalia, then by all means pick this up, and treasure it forever, as Troll Tits probably won't be making an album for a while.
Doom Metal; Rob Crow; Pinback with more distortion; Electric Wizard; penises
Check out Goblin Cock on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/goblincock).
Record Label : Robcore Records
Release Date : January 27, 2009
It's really a disapointment when the most entertaining things on an album are the double entendres. Rob Crow (under the alias Lord Phallus) of Pinback fame makes his second foray into the doom metal genre with Come With Me If You Want to Live. However, not even Crow can make the most monotonous doom album entertaining or enjoyable.
"Hisless" starts things off as a pretty nice acoustic intro, with just a taste of some electronic elements. It gives the relaxing, yet haunting signature found in Pinback. The next song, "Loch" contains a pretty redundant chord progression that ultimately goes nowhere. Crow tries to diferentiate his voice from when he sings in Pinback by adding some vocal effects, but overall it just sounds like he's trying too hard. Luckily this is one of the only times he does this.
"Big Up Your Willies" shows much more Pinback/Crow influences than the previous song, as well as gives another taste of electronic elements as seen earlier. This song proves itself to be one of the highlights of the album by providing a dreamlike state for the listener. Even though it contains the faults that plagued the other songs, this one is able to use redundancy for the better, giving a relaxing feeling yet still retaining the heaviness as seen elsewhere.
The next track, "We Got a Bleeder" provides a much poppier sound than the other songs, but it still has the familliar heaviness. It proves itself as almost a fist-pounding anthem, with the overly catchy main riff. Unfortunately, after this point, the entertainment value halts prematurely, as the next four tracks are extremely forgettable, and just sound like a chunky mess. "Mylar" seems to pick up the pace in riffing and looks to be an interesting song, but it just blows its load too early, and becomes another redundant song that's barely distinguishable from the rest. "Tom's Song" shows a little more creativity than the others by providing a combination of acoustic riffs as well as heavily distorted ones. The pace is finally picked up in the finisher, "Trying To Get Along With Humans", where the song hits the ears fast and hard, but unfortunately, it doesn't compensate for the monotony of the other tracks.
Overall, the album sounds a lot like the most boring Pinback songs with the distortion turned way up. This isn't to say that the album is trash, because there are definitely some solid tracks on it. If you're a fan of stoner/doom metal or Rob Crow, you should definitly at least listen to the first few songs to see if you like it. For everyone else however, there's nothing on here really that will convince you to listen to doom metal.
However, if you're a fan of mythical creature genitalia, then by all means pick this up, and treasure it forever, as Troll Tits probably won't be making an album for a while.
Doom Metal; Rob Crow; Pinback with more distortion; Electric Wizard; penises
Check out Goblin Cock on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/goblincock).