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1. Wonder Drug Wonderland/Spreading the Dis-
Ease
2. Ark of Ecoterrorism
3. Living Lolita Blowjob
4. Thawing Out
5. Need for Better Body Armor
6. Freeze Dried Cemetery
7. Children Blown to Bits by the Busload
8. Scoring in Heaven
9. Fuck Your Soccer Jesus
10. Guided Tour
11. Honky Dong
12. Famous Last Words
13. Osaka Milk Bar
14. Drive by Blowjob on a Bicycle
15. Ten Pounds of Remains
16. Utter Mental Retardation and Reversal of Man
17. Neotropolis Euphoria
18. Snitch Olympics
19. Crawling Out of the Cradle into the Casket
20. Removing Locator Tooth
21. Aum Shinrikyo
22. Protocols of the Elders of Zion
23. Tokyo Subway Gassing
24. Star of David
25. Shintaro Ishihara and the Rape of Nanking in
World War 2
26. Mahikari
27. Micro-Tidal Wave
28. Crop Dusting
29. LSD as Chemical Weapon
30. Illegal Manufacture
31. Drugging the Control Group
32. Alice in la la Land
33. Apocalypse as Mescaline Experience
34. Artificial Religious Experience
35. First Day of Sodom: Pussy Hair Prayer Rug
36. Second Day of Sodom: Distortion in Eden
37. Third Day of Sodom: Serpent of the Gay Pride
Rainbow
38. Fourth Day of Sodom: Snaking Adam's Black
Apple
39. Fifth Day of Sodom: Like a Cretin on Christmas
Eve
40. Sixth Day of Sodom: Boston Hardcore Caligula
41. Seventh Day of Sodom: Fantasizing Hydrahead
42. Eighth Day of Sodom: Lamb of the Rotisserie
God
43. Ninth Day of Sodom: Holiday Bowl Full of
Asshole
44. Tenth Day of Sodom: Enter the House of
Feasting
45. Eleventh Day of Sodom: Passing Blunts and
Cunts at Relapse
46. Twelfth Day of Sodom: When Taking a Shit Feels
Sexy
47. Poland Springfield Acidbag
48. Rectal Thermometer
49. Lemonade and a Snickers Bar
50. Necro-Cannabalistic Tendencies in Young
Children
51. Bombs With Butterfly Wings
52. Watching a Clown Point a Gun at a Small Dog
(Reprise)
53. Mosquito Holding Human Cattle Prod
54. For Just Ten Cents a Day...
55. Mental Change(s): Altered Consciousness
56. Radical Modernism
57. Human Enhancement
58. Juxtaposed Impacts
59. Unprecedented Experiment
60. Transparent Enclosure
61. Bong Hit Wonder
62. Opening to Personals Ad by Richard Johnson
63. Relapse Refusing U.N. Weapons Inspectors
64. Neural Linguistic Programming
65. Fag vs. The Indian
66. Black Metal Transvestite
67. Debbie Does Dishes
68. Marine Pornography (For Whale Cock
Skateboards)
69. Keeping a Clean Kennel
70. Baby Mill Pt. 1 (Born and Sold into Child Slavery)
71. Firearms for All Faiths
72. Domestic Solution
73. Definition of Death
74. Discolored
75. Scott Hulk on Intramuscular Steroids
[Instrumental]
76. 4 Leeches (40,000 Leeches)
77. Group Taking Acid as Considered Conspiracy
Against the Government
78. Small Room and a Six-Pack
79. Deviant Arousal
80. Unbound by Civilized Properties
81. They All Burned!
82. Shotgun Funeral
83. Homophobic Assbleed
84. Exacting Revenge on Pets
85. Baby Mill Pt. 2 (White Russian)
86. Narcoterrorist Megalomaniac
87. Releasing a Dove from a Ghetto Rooftop
88. Bipartisan Buttfuck
89. Bent Over the Cross
90. Chance at Reprisal
91. Altered Ego
92. Pin the Tail on the Donkey
93. Latter Day Mormon Ritual
94. 5 Band Genetic Equalizer, Pt. 3
95. Absurd Boast
96. Burning Social Interest
97. Whore Torn Vet
98. Obi Wan Kaczynski
99. Placing a Personal Memo on the Boss's Desk
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5 of 5 thought this review was well written
"Altered States of America" - the paradigm of extreme narco-grind, spanning over almost a hundred songs dissecting the thick layers of filth on humanity's underbelly. The brainchild of Scott Hull (famous from bands like Pig Destroyer and Anal Cunt) takes the listener on a 20 minute journey of shock, awe, disgust and sonic abuse - programmed drums blasting away at up to 1,000 BPMs, accompanied by vicious metal riffs, vocals grunted, spoken, screamed and growled as well as miscellaneous odd and ominous samples and soundbytes. With the average song lenght being just over 12 seconds, recommending high-lights seems redundant - your best option would be to get the album, put your headphones on and just sit back with the lyrics sheet and let the ugly chaos implode your senses.
It's imperative to realize that Agoraphobic Nosebleed in general and this album in particular isn't necessarily music as much as it is a kind of artistical installment of noise. Everything - from samples and vocals to drum beats and riffs - is pushed beyond limitation and exhaustion to acheive excess for the sake of excess, making it hard to differentiate between brilliance and pretentious hyperbolism. But for creating an effect, if only one of shock, their eclectic arrangements work wonders.
And that's not even touching upon the lyrics of the album. As previously stated, they're for the most part an excursion into everything filthy in the world (like paedophilia, cannibalism, trafficking, sodomy, rape, murder, pop culture) and range from resembling social commentary and critique, to being blatant displays of disregard for humanity. Or how about the lyrics to "Narcoterrorist Megalomaniac";
There's so much money in guns and drugs
I could have anyone killed with a phone call.
South American women being torn apart by huge cats for my masturbatory amusement.
Nothing like paying for a four thousand dollar boob job on a third world slut and have it ravaged by albino tigers.
While having another slut on your dick trying to disprove her expandability.
...or the 12-song suite of the days of Sodom, in which in part three, Eve (known from The Bible: Genesis) grows a huge dick and fucks a snake. Yeah.
The albums works best, no - the album works only as a complete piece. Since it's 99 songs spanning "just" 20 minutes, it's not much to ask that one listen to it from beginning to end. Actually taking the time to do that, just listening to the album (preferrably with access to the lyrics) is guaranteed to make you feel like you're on just as much drugs as the band must've been on when this album was conceived. And if that's not an accomplishment worthy of genius-status, I don't know what is.
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Album Rating: 5
I like how the tracklist is way longer than my review 
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99 tracks? Brutal, I don't much like Grind, so I doubt I'll check this out.
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looks intresting
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Great album. Though I have to be in the right mood to listen to this. Nice review, Pete.This Message Edited On 06.18.06
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[quote=spence]Nice review, Pete.[/quote]
Thanks - where's my rating? :angreh:
| | | Album Rating: 3
Everything about this album makes me want to love it, but I dont .
Ill break it out every now and again for a listen but not very often
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I got really disappointed that I wasn't able to finish this album before I lost it. Good review.
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I have this but never gave it a spin. I dig their work on The Poacher Diaries though. Will listen soon.
Digging: Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
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Ahhh I need more ANB.
Good review - 99 tracks?
That's so grind! lol
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It's so funny listening to this, and having the songs change all the time.
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This album is so awesome. This Message Edited On 07.21.07
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im not a big fan of grind but i definatly want to check this out
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i really want this. scott hull is my boy.
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Killler album...it makes you want to kill, i mean it.
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Awesome I can listen to the whole thing with itunes previews
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it is pretty much the most pointless album ever
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that tracklist is greater than your review
Digging: The Howling Void - Shadows Over The Cosmos Digging: The Howling Void - Shadows Over The Cosmos
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You should have done a track by track review......lol
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Bong Hit Wonder is an awesome song title. They have such crazy song titles. Especially on Bestial Machinery. I haven't found a good copy with all the songs on the album to download yet so I think I'm probly gonna buy it.
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Well that sucked.
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