Two words leapt out at me when I checked out the only album Ki has recommended to me for this year, and those were the dreaded grindcore, and then their lyrics described as “gibberish”. This is not a good start. I have a feeling this may be nothing more than percussion, probably played at an unfeasibly fast tempo, hence the title, but we'll see. I kind of feel like I'm reviewing this for “Love or Hate?” now, and expecting to come down firmly on the side of the latter...
4247 Snare Drums --- Whourkr --- 2012 (Ade Noiseam)
Suggested by Ki
I suppose I should be grateful that it only runs for a total of thirty-five minutes! Okay, well it started deceptively well, with a nice little guitar intro, then some noise blasted over it and now we have a mess of sound with a cookie monster vocal. That cutting in and out that I hate so much, no melody whatever, just a bunch of formless noise. Thanks Ki; I bet you picked this on purpose, knowing my aversion to grindcore and this kind of noise metal. Frownland probably listens to this to relax.
I'm going to be writing very little about this, as there is nothing to write about. In fact it sounds mostly like someone being sick over a very chaotic soundtrack with various noises.
Well, there was an interesting thing: a sort of snippet of classical music right at the end of the second track. You know what? I'm done with this. Let's find something more intersting. This is directly from Wikipedia:
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers) near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson(1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).[2]The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (2.00 sq mi; 5.17 km2) [3] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[4]
South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles site because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on the Mount Rushmore location, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature western heroes like Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud,[5] and Buffalo Bill Cody,[6] but Borglum decided the sculpture should have a more national focus and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain. After securing federal funding through the enthusiastic sponsorship of "Mount Rushmore's great political patron", U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck,[7] construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over construction. Although the initial concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding forced construction to end in late October 1941.[8]
Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of the United States, and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million people annually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore
Boring, yes, but more interesting than listening to and trying to write about this mess. I'll get you for this Ki. I'm not even going to bother rating this s
hit. You do however win this award, for possibly the worst album ever suggested on Metal Month. Yeah, even worse than
Naked City! And this is in fact where this album should go, and probably where it was composed.
Incidentally, that would have worked really well for Batty in the Torture Chamber. On we go.