MONOLITH (Greece) Chapter Three of the Porn (The Men Of) adventure. If you think that "Wine, Women and Song..." is a collection of drink songs, then go to the doctor first, and ask him if you're healthy enough: because you'll have to handle the hardest stuff. OK? Right. Now, you can call your women and buddies, put the record, play it loud and get ready for a bad hangover. Three guys and not the least for that third LP. Once again, Porn's founder, brains, vocalist and guitarist Tim Moss (Ritual Device) summoned two colossus of the heavy rock scene. Tim shows a certain talent for that. After Joe Goldring (ex-Swans), Guy Pinhas (The Obsessed, Goatsnake, Acid King), Brian Hill (Buzzov-en, Acid King) among other talented guests, it's now the turn of Dale Crover (Melvins, Nirvana) on drums and tympani, and Billy Anderson (Melvins, Splith, but mostly well-known as the "you can't get away from him" producer of the Melvins, Neurosis, Sleep, High On Fire...), on bass, organ, piano, backing vocals and engineering, to join the Porn's Brutish Beasts Club. OK, that's not fair this time. Even so, "Wine, Women and Song..." is subtler than just a destructive, loud explosion of a massive wall of sounds: this is just one of the main components of the hairy Porn's style. Subtle...you doubt? So what about the rest... A heavy primitive fuzz guitar playing monster riffs and feedback (listen to that de-generated quasi-human feedback line echoing like a sick mocking laugh in the second half of "Succulento", or to that insane guitar yelling in "Last Song"... there's a smell of paranoia, isn't there?) a boggy-like-sludge rhythm section (that's not entertainment with Dale and Billy, masters of density… their thickness abilities are as huge as they want to be), lead Pornster's harsh voice vomiting rare but totally depraved lyrics, an early 70's Pink Floyd-ish pedal steel, like on the salutary meditative part of "The Five Books Of Theaeneas" (that reminds the beautiful Atom Heart Mother's track "If"). All those ingredients are mixed into something that is not only a devastating heavy stoned metal magnum opus. Meditative and noisy experiments also confer an "intellectual" (some words have sometimes to be said) dimension to that record. Don't get me wrong; what I mean is that Porn should be listened to, not only with your ears and body, but also with your mind wide open. So is that kind of Porn. Rate: 11/13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------