The album concept: “Now an old man and with the prospect of death looming, Victor loses all faith in religion and convinces himself that by building a house that cuts him away from society he can take on the superior role of God himself and avoid the concept of Death altogether. However, his disillusionment with his past life acts as a catalyst for his madness inside, where a giant cat and a giant dog fight for his conscience and whatever other life there is left in his naked and passive body. The inevitabilities of Time and Death cannot be avoided and Victor dies a roaming, misguided non-entity without the recognition he would have received through passing away in his past real life.”

MINI-LP REVIEW

THE MURDER
OF ROSA
LUXEMBURG

"EVERYONE'S IN LOVE
AND FLOWERS PICK
THEMSELVES"

(Undergroove Records - UGCD010)

 

1. BUILDING (A HOUSE FOR
    FLOWERS AND LOVERS)

2. THE BEARD IS IMMORTAL
3. INFERNAL MUSIC
4. JACK AND OSCAR HAVE A FIGHT
5. SLAP THE CUBO FUTURIST
6. TIME AND DEATH INVADING
    THE ARCADIAN SCENE

7. EX POST FACTO
8. VENEZUELA IS REALISED

 

Length:  29:41 (min:secs)

Available from:
17th November, 2003.

www.themurderof.co.uk

themurderof@hotmail.com

 

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Everything to do with this band sounds very strange and indeed it is very strange.  This album is the stage for an act of musical eccentricity, eight tracks of progressive madness linked together with a lunatic fringe of far-out proportions. Imagine if you will the entire occupancy of Hatton’s loony bin escaping from their straight-jacketed confines, taking with them the drugs trolley and breaking into the nearby music shop.  Loaded with all manner of hallucinogenic and mood enhancing compounds they set about an assortment of instruments to tell the world their misunderstood story.  Too far fetched?  One listen to this and it will sound like a positively sensible explanation!

“Building” begins the madness with an almost seventies sounding funky guitar that soon joins the vocals in a demented brawl before “The Beard Is Immortal” takes on a schizophrenic jazz versus death battle to claim divinity. “Infernal Music” begins with what could be a demented Clanger playing with dentist drills and breaks into an excellent funky groove that collimates in an awesomely intense metal breakdown. “Jack And Oscar Have A Fight” take the philosophical clash through a very laid back and delicate instrumental of ambient beats fused with keyboard and guitar tinkering, stumbling into “Slap The Cubo Futurist” which raises the stakes and gets metal in a Dillinger Escape Plan meets Frank Zappa kind of way. “Time And Death Invading The Arcadian Scene” with it’s grand rock opening implodes with degenerative fragmentation before brutally collecting itself together in bleak climatic exhaustion. “Ex Post Facto” has us coming down from the high in a series of gentle moods and atmospheres that soon become a cathartic experience readying us for “Venezuela Is Realised” which takes the final realisation head-on and at pace with a funky jazz beat, signalling the crash back to reality - then nothing.

This is an astonishing and diverse album of loony spazcore, intricate modern jazz influenced metal with odd pace changes and beats, frenetic riffs and free spirited solos. It’s more chaotic than DEP, as zany as Frank Zappa, as progressive as Alex Harvey and as heavy as The Locust.  If you’re fed up with every band sounding the same, you’re looking for something a little different, or just simply wish to be more adventurous with music then you can't go far wrong with this band.   However, staying sane maybe another thing!

12345678910 - Rigsby  (9th November, 2003)
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