Zodiac Mindwarp - We Are Volsung

Zodiac Mindwarp - We Are Volsung
Жанр: Hard Rock / Punk Metal
Страна: United Kingdom (London)
Год издания диска: 2010
Издатель (лейбл): SPV GmbH / Soyuz - Россия
Номер по каталогу: SPV 4601250370484
Страна: UK
Аудио кодек: APE (*.ape)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 31:39
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Треклист:
01. Stark Von Oben
02. We Are Volsung
03. We Ride
04. Tree Rider
05. White Trash
06. Don't Touch My Guitar
07. Lucille
08. Die Pretty
09. Key To Your Heart
10. Kill Me A Mockingbird

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Loosely based around the concept of Norse Gods, We Are Volsung is a triumphant return to form for Zodiac Mindwarp -- completely destroying Rock Savage and even outshining 2002's excellent I Am Rock. For a guy who blew the head off a schoolmarm in the infamous Prime Mover video, you wouldn't think much more could be added to the legacy -- We Are Volsung proves that wrong.
Years ago, my friend and I bought tickets to a Zodiac Mindwarp gig that was taking place the following night. They were numbered five and six, so we, somewhat downcast, waited for the cancellation announcement. But it never came.
The venue was full, although the band – think a British biker Spinal Tap after a head-on collision with a comic book store – hadn’t released a single in half a decade, and their big hit Prime Mover was nothing but a memory. Maybe it was the wetsuit-tight leather kecks Zodiac (né Mark Manning) was fond of wearing, or the lyrics that could make a madam blush, that helped draw the punters in. Whatever, the sleazy, witty dirt-rock, which once led Mötley Crüe to proclaim ZMALR their favourite band, still clearly had the power to refresh the parts that other groups couldn’t reach.
Judging by We Are Volsung, their first album since signing to respected metal label SPV, not too much (bar the bassist and drummer) has changed. Guitarist Cobalt Stargazer’s riffs crunch, as ever, like bones under Judge Dredd’s boots, Manning is all come-on drawls and snarling menace and they’re not afraid of the odd melody. White Trash and Don’t Touch My Guitar, with its whiff of The Cramps, could have come out at any point since the band’s 1985 inception, while Die Pretty recalls Alice Cooper (whose single, Feed My Frankenstein, was co-written by Manning). However, Mindwarp are now heavier, kicking as much ass as their hard-rockin’ peers who don’t know one end of a self-mocking shtick from the other.
The highlight, closer Kill a Mockingbird, is dark, weighty and lumbering; it’s also, surprisingly, more drenched in blues than a Deep South porch. But We Are Volsing is ostensibly pronged helmet rather than metal-studded fedora (although the Viking theme seems to have been abandoned halfway through. I don’t remember a Lucille ever appearing in a Norse saga). Opener Stark Von Oben and the title-track, particularly, are tooled-up, steel-tipped battle songs. Where once a lyric like My spear never misses would refer to something in Manning’s pants, here it assuredly does not (unless he’s started to wear five-foot long boxers). The whole concept is probably tongue-in-cheek, yet it apes those dodgy Odin-obsessed Scandinavian bands so well it’s disconcerting.
But ZMALR didn’t win fans through such sophisticated parody – we loved them for their seedy humour, their blatant, jokey crudeness. Very little of which, unfortunately, appears on this album. Please, next time, let a spear not just be a spear.

Состав

Zodiac Mindwarp - vocals
Cobalt Stargazer - guitar
Jack Shitt - bass
Bruno The Cat Agua - drums