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ARTiST....: tomahawk
TiTLE.....: anonymous
LABEL.....: Ipecac
GENRE.....: metal
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 60,3 MB
REL.DATE..: jun-04-2007
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01] war song 03:25
02] mescal rite 1 02:54
03] ghost dance 03:44
04] red fox 03:05
05] cradle song 04:11
06] antelope ceremony 04:00
07] song of victory 01:14
08] omaha dance 03:58
09] sun dance 03:02
10] mescal rite 2 05:52
11] totem 03:05
12] crow dance 03:46
13] long, long weary day 01:24
TOTAL TiME : 43:40 min
After a four year lay off , Tomahawk - the
alt.metal brainchild of Duane Denison and Mike
Patton - return with a rather different sound. The
trio (now lacking bassist Kevin Rutmanis) have
evolved.. no longer sounding like the bastard
lovechild of a perverse form of metal,
Being closer to Mike Patton's other band, the
jazz-thrash-speedcore act Fantomas, "Anonymous" is
a bizarre selection of material that actually has
very little to do with previous Tomahawk releases
: the album consists (mostly) of cover versions
and reworkings of traditional Native Indian folk
songs, and it sounds it.
Gone are anything as memorable as tunes, or
lyrics, or melody, in favour of a serious of
increasingly strange soundscapes of tribal
chanting supported by a selection of
bizarrely-tuned twangings and clattering drums. At
times the music veers towards a country slant
("Long, Long Weary Day"), or unusually tuned, deep
choruses of wordless vocals that sound nearer
Satanic chants than actual 'songs'. The previously
conventional-ish Tomahawk template is ditched in
favour of short, almost clipped musical rhythms
and atonal chanting.
Overall, for fans of Tomahawks previous work, be
warned that "Anonymous" moves quite far from the
original template and veers into the atonal,
experimental field characterised by Patton's more
specialist, and more challenging band Fantomas,
and should approach with caution. Not easy
listening - but hard listening
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