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Lustmord – Juggernaut review

September 6th, 2007

From the old site. The waybackmachine is awesome!

First I need to mention that Vaultworks has got it together. The CD arrived in less than a week! Quick mail orders rule!

Juggernaut is the latest release from Brian Williams under the Lustmord moniker. I’ve been following his music for quite a while now; Zeotrope is one of my favorite albums of all time. I tend to get a little down on ambient type music from time to time, but I think Lustmord will always be one of the champions of the sound. Juggernaut is no exception and far more than just boring drones. The disc features King Buzzo of the Melvins on vocals and guitar adding slow distorted chugs and vocal shrieks and mutters and some sort of weird singing.

There are probably some people who aren’t going to be into this as much as previous Lustmord releases. It isn’t a huge departure or anything, but to give an idea, there is at least one guitar solo. I usually think sci-fi with Lustmord, but Juggernaut feels almost rock oriented. It has the Lustmord feeling of sheer terror overall, but there is something different going on with the song structure. Everything is very solid sounding.
At the moment the two middle tracks, (2) Prime and (3) Able are my favorites overall, but there are nice moments in all four of the songs.

Well worth the 10 ten bucks.

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