Even though Fell Venus pulls a Prince and calls their album "@," they still crank out some great music. As fellow HM music freak Charles Gates puts it: "The drum loops and sequences stay in the back and the live instruments come up front (real drums 'n' stuff!) This is a guitar groove album, dude!"
This album crosses over the dance and metal and hardcore and, yes, industrial genres and satisfies each of 'em. Tunes like "Nice Guy" reek with passion as Mr Venus screams about being too blind to see it, too black to believe it.
The grooves built in here make you wanna move 'n' mosh 'n' just plain freak. Some of the more contemplative moments, like "Penance," still carry some Henry Rollins-type anger and drama. "Hate Disease" has an unforgettable groove, with trippy confessional BGV's of "I've got it" changing up to the intensity every so often.
This is new and different, but I'll be hornswaggled if it ain't great to listen to! And you'll love playing track #27 over and over again to your cool friends.
Other coverage for this album
The Conqueror Worm Jun/Jul 1995Reviewed by argyllethis cd is not too bad. the major problem with it is not enough meat. there are only 10 tracks listed and two of them don't really count as songs. then there are a couple o' those hidden track things. (why do they call them hidden tracks if everyone knows exactly where they are?) the meat you do get though, is good. it's a kind of industrial you don't get too much of these days. it's not…The Lighthouse May 1995Reviewed by Todd BrownI have a notoriously short attention span with most of my music. I listen to it, I like it, then something new comes and I forget about it. Having said that, I'd like to point out that Fell Venus' debut album @ has lived in my CD player constantly for the past two weeks. This is an accomplishment of simply enormous proportions. I think the last time this happened was Michael Knott's Screaming…Similar sounding releases
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