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City: AUSTIN / BROOKLYN / OAKLAND
State: Texas
Country: US
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

MRR Review
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“Finally, after much teasing and foreplay, the TOTAL ABUSE full-length is out and totally worth the wait! This album is pure bloody-knuckles-wrapped-around-a-bottle-of-despair music – a soundtrack for modern times. I listen to this shit while running and I want to push people out of my way, stomp on top of shiny, expensive cars, and then run against the traffic in the middle of the street. I’m not fucking around here. Imagine the nihilistic hardcore intensity of a band like SEX/VID mixed with everything musically cool about BLACK FLAG and you’re just starting to get the picture. Some songs are driving on the mid-tempo side and make you slip slowly into madness, and others are fast and relentless, perfect for skating top speed down the steepest hills in town. You should already have the two EP’s by this point (SEX PIG and the demo 7”), but if you don’t, the CD version has both of em as bonus tracks to catch you up on things. I usually don’t keep CDs.. I’m keeping this one. Fantastic!” -MRR

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Joey

Joey DeStefano

from a column in this month's MRR:

"The first full-length audio excursion by Total Abuse represents a developmental leap from the demo and 7". Or should I say decay--as in they've gotten scarier and more intense-sounding. That's obvious from the onset: a four-minute noise and Swans-ish lurch that does have one waiting for the payoff, and it comes with "I Can See In The Dark." Back and forth between thrash blasts and slower, intense exercises like the repetitive "Disease" and "Secrets." There aren't any overtly obvious influences, although I'd say that the driving "Cleanse Me," for instance, has something of an early COC feel to it. The CD includes those earlier recordings and, while you can hear shadings of what's going to come with this album, it stills leans towards conventional hardcore--not that I'm complaining about it but, seeing them live, it was a surprising jolt when they played the newer songs--which wasn't expected at all. This album gives you a good idea of their brutal creativity."

Posted by Joey on Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 11:21 PM
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