Storms over Slavland: the official Brutal Assault review, part 2
"If I had to pick one person who I genuinely regard as a musical idol, it would be Vegard Sverre Teitan, also known as Ihsahn, the brains behind Emperor, the band who created arguably the most majestic, incredible album of the 90s in the form of In The Nightside Eclipse. In fact, I'd go so far as to say he's barely put a foot wrong in his entire
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Check out Nathan Barley, it's well fuckin' weapon, yeah? Like the Wasp T12 Speechtool, yeah? It was a Chris Morris black comedy about a self-described "self-facilitating media node" who lived amongst the predecessors of hipsters in Shoreditch (essentially London's Williamsburg) circa 2005. It had no laugh track and it crashed and burned on its original airing, until, slowly but surely, those who lived in East London spread the word that yes, this is really what Shoreditch was like and yes, these utter twats really do exist, and we should laugh at them. Learn more at Wikipedia dot cock, it's well Mexico, yeah?
...the first thing I thought of was Butt-Head remarking "this music is slow and fat."
I was going to review Crowbar in the style of Beavis & Butt-Head because that was the first thing I thought of after their set (maybe even during) when I noticed their massive weight loss. It just didn't fit in around the rest of the paragraph. And that sucks. Uh huh huh huh huh. Huh huh huh huh.
Wait, you don't like Carcass?
That's not the case. It's not even that I don't like Jeff Walker. It's just that when he opens his mouth, what falls out is inevitably the torrent of political rat poison that I can quite easily subject myself to voluntarily by looking at what my alleged friends are grandstanding about on Faceache - and I'd rather get away from that. Look back to Wacken in 2008 and I gave Carcass a great review, but that was before the infuriating rise of the social justice lunatic fringe.
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