CHROME HOOFCrush DepthRelease: 2010Label: Southern RecordsAvantgenre: Astrodelick Funk <strong>Metal</strong>Duration: 59:08Origin: USoAOfficial site: http://www.myspace.<strong>com</strong>/chromehoof................................................................................................................................For this never seen be<strong>for</strong>e review, I was The musick proceeds from bass, guitar,joined by the grand, grand, little grandchild synthesizer, percussion, bassoon, saxophone,cello, drum, piano, rhodes, organ,of the late Aleister Crowley, an undergroundmagus and post-mentalist who trumpet, violin, viola and much femalegoes by the name of Sir Julius Henry Crowley.He told me he had been given at birthvocals and sprightliness.the power to, quote, "see through Musick" - Chrome Hoof takes the Post-rock, Elecktrowhatever this means. To tell you the truth, distorted-RIO phat b-ass <strong>com</strong>plex riffingI've known Chrome Hoof since the Pre- and organically heart-crosses it with darkEmptive period, but was never fully able to alien-sympho space <strong>Metal</strong>.find the right words to describe this OutcastOutfit. They're playing by standards Crush Depth is perhaps, we say, lessthey have invented out of the blue. So Discko-oriented and more psi-Operatick inwhen Sir Julius Henry Crowley offered me lenght than Pre-Emptive False Rapture, itssuch an unprecedented opportunity to get wondrous predecessor.my AGM reviewer's work done with thehelp of Crowleyan magick, don't ask meWhat does that mean? Well, it's catchier,why, I said yes right away. I couldn't resist,so to speak. T<strong>here</strong><strong>for</strong>e while the albumdancier, with more layers of biosphericlasers inside the molecular sounds - andwas playing, Sir Julius Henry Crowleymore uproarious dreams to revel in.visited some other plane or some outerMore like a stupendous, monsterlikechannel of perception of consciousness,struckture - we would say - and yet, soand he came back with these writtendelicately assembled - kick ass and sensuous.words, which he claims to have heard fromworlds beyond. I haven't changed anythingto the originals - the way I got it is the wayThe Funk Groove has subjectively andyou will read it. So like it or not, that's up toobjectively not been left anyw<strong>here</strong> behind.you, but the value of this review lies elsew<strong>here</strong>.Thanks <strong>for</strong> reading.Leo Smee (from Cathedral and Miasma &the Carousel of Headless Horses) <strong>for</strong>medChrome Hoof with his drummer bro LeoSmee - and the duo expanded to more orless a dozen per<strong>for</strong>mers.En effet, Funk Groove is what contradistinguishesthis Rock/<strong>Metal</strong> Orchestrafrom most other Rock/<strong>Metal</strong> bands aliveand dead.They're Funk-y-Cool-y à la Disckothèque -though altered into an Occult Thrashdancing slushpit.
Now and then, seventies Psyche-Prog andKosmisch escapades are also introducedamong the album's Astrodelick concoctions.Of great importance, this experi<strong>Metal</strong> Ensemblestands not so far away from theteachings of Sun Ra's intergalactic travelingthrough sound.We're reminded of Luke Vibert's MOVEYOUR MIND MOVE YOUR FEET pro-Beatcampaign.By all means, it's broader in scope thanVoodoo Rock/<strong>Metal</strong> and looking furtherover Elecktro Space Funk - visibly concealedaltogether.Our last words shall be:Vote against Chrome Division.Vote <strong>for</strong> Chrome Hoof!---------------« Sous mon aisselle droite il y a un caméléon!»--------Oliver SideDIABOLOS RISING666Release: 1994Label: Osmose ProductionsAvantgenre: Ritualistic Industrially-Satanized <strong>Metal</strong>Duration: 34:42Origin: Greece / FinlandOfficial site: http://none.............................................................................................................................................Released back when Osmose Productions musical and undoubtedly theological mindwas a purveyor of eclectic and well respectedquality underground music, in-quality having the straight <strong>for</strong>ward sim-set. This CD possesses a clinically darkcluding such bands as Pan-Thy-Monium, plicity and production of an industrialRotting Christ, Masters Hammer, Dark album with the aesthetics of, what was atTranquility and many more, this release is the time, the Satanic black metal underground.no exception. It is a cooperation betweenartists of differing locals but of a similar
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