Skrew - Dusted

In the late 1980s Adam Grossman and Danny Lohner played in the group Angkor Wat, owners of When Obscenity Becomes The Norm Awake (Death, 1989) and Corpus Christi (Death, 1990).
Having lost his drummer, Grossman hired a drum machine and renamed the group Skrew. With keyboards, samples, and the whole techno-industrial arsenal, Skrew released in 1992 Burning In Water Drowning In Flame (Metal Blade), an album in which they fused the "grunge" sounds of Black Sabbath with torrential disco rhythms, thus arriving (from the left instead of the right) at the same synthesis at which Jourgensen had just arrived. The manifesto of the genre is the very heavy title-track, destined to remain one of the milestones of the genre.
Dusted (Metal Blade, 1994), recorded by a sextet (vocals, bass, drums, two guitars, and electronics), is one of the records of the era that were born on the borderline between industrial music and heavy metal. Tracks as terrifying as they are slick as Seeded know how to sink into menacing heavy metal while soaring into a Type-O Negative-esque "Wagnerian" refrain. Heavymetal riffs shore up the animalistic rap of Picasso Trigger (also single), electronic and percussive tricks slaughter the proclamation of Skrew Saves, again to devastating effect. The macabre ritual dance of Mouthful Of Dust (complete with African polyrhythms) presses on under the banner of a demented "call and response."

Adam Grossman's vast repertoire of vocal gestures and Clay Campbell's methodical guitar work on the sides constitute only the tip of the iceberg. Everything is choreographed in the stormy scans of Jim Vollentine's keyboards and Mark Dufour's percussion, which together produce sonic tornadoes worthy of Foetus aberrations. The ensemble has the tragic sense and savage rush of Cop Shoot Cop's best moments, but in the even more blinding light of this death metal for philosophers (as opposed to thugs). Season For Whither unfolds the full firepower of their method.

Overall, the record is a diary of the impending madness of a desperate outcast, relegated to the squalor of a world that is doomed to destruction anyway. The long Sour is the nightmare/vision in which their existential claustrophobia and cosmic pessimism are sublimated. The disco electronic pastiche of Godsdog seals the work by chronicling the death of God. It is a record that exudes apathy and disgust.

Tracklist:

"In Tongues" - 0:00
"Seeded" - 2:00
"Picasso Trigger" - 6:29
"Albatross" - 10:21
"Jesus Skrew Superstar" - 14:49
"Skrew Saves" - 18:49
"Season for Whither" - 22:28
"Sour" - 26:04
"Mouthful of Dust" - 32:58
"Godsdog" - 38:30

Genre: Metal
Year of Edition: 1994
Carrier: CD
Publisher (label): Metal Blade
Country: United States of America
Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: tracks+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless