You can (legitimately) listen to the whole album at the appropriately-named agorapocalypse.com.
I think something is lost in their transition from absurdist drum machine HATEHATEHATE to a more band-like experience, particularly the expansion out to two and three minute long tracks. The drum programming is more like a drummer and less like an angry smear; it’s quite impressive as a simulation.
I’m partial to “Hung from the Rising Sun” myself but overall I’m not too enamored thus far. It’s sufficiently angry, but is it sufficiently vapid?
3 Comments
May 17, 2009 at 2:02 am
The song titles are still the same but I guess liking it hinges on how much you dig Apartment 213 and Man Is the Bastard.
A rogue spear is a shlong that’s dangling all over the place.
May 19, 2009 at 8:10 am
rogue spears all a flappin’ in the blast beat breeze.
i’ve never heard apt. 213.
July 7, 2009 at 1:12 am
You know, listening to this after Altered States… is like going from Reign In Blood to South of Heaven.