Fistula - Loser review
| Band: | Fistula |
| Album: | Loser |
| Style: | Drone doom metal, Sludge metal |
| Release date: | March 2010 |
01. Picking Up Chicks
02. I'm Glad Nate's Not In A.C.
03. The Hounds
04. Mutant Tooth
05. Coma Forever
06. Loser
The city of Cleveland, Ohio has had it rough through the years. Race riots. Rust Belt. The local river that has caught fire. Ten times*. (You read that right.) In 2004 they were voted "Most Tortured Sports City" and things haven only gotten worse since for their teams. They were rated the 11th most dangerous US city (#7 with a population between 100-500k) in 2008. And they had to endure the cancelation of the Drew Carey Show, with its affirming "Cleveland Rocks!" theme song. I think all of this has taken its toll on the collective psyche of Clevelanders.
It certainly did with Fistula? with perhaps the Drew Carey thing hitting hardest. Loser sounds a lot like the Mimi Bobeck character.
Fat and ugly.
The band has two basic speeds and stylistic approaches, slowdge (that's sludge played mighty slow) and breakneck. The slower, doom dirge thundering riffs remind me a bit of Bongripper - just ugly, thick, fat, dirty, vile stuff. The fast stuff sound just as horrible as the slow stuff, only sped up and more aggressive. It's grinding sludge played with reckless abandon. Nothing pretty whatsoever.
The slow bits are like getting kicked in the head by steel-toed boots. The faster pieces are like kicking some other poor yob in the head.
While most of the atmosphere of tracks like "Picking Up Chicks" and "Mutant Tooth" are vile, the album does have a nice, light-hearted burst in the 26 second breakneck grinding wall of noise "I'm Glad Nate's Not In A.C." in which the vocalist froths into the mic "I'm glad Nate's not in Anal Cunt" over and over and over again.
Ultimately this record is like getting pegged by Mimi on the beach of a burning river after finding out your favorite local sports team moved to Baltimore. Or, in short, a day in the life of a Clevelander.
* Management is proud to report the Cuyahoga is fire free since 1969!
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
 | Written on 15.08.2011 by BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. |
Comments
| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck elite Posts: 40071  |
Yeah it is indeed either one of two speeds this one. But still totally typically Fistula
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| AXA Posts: 199  |
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Irritable Ted on 15.08.2011 at 10:53  great one
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Irritable Ted on 15.08.2011 at 13:13 Well, I don't mind I found it extremely enjoyable and well thought out.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by Irritable Ted on 15.08.2011 at 10:53 Congrats on winning the thread.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One admin Posts: 15250  |
Apparently it's a medical condition - an unnatural passageway/connection between two organs. my first thought was closer to along your lines... i was going to make a more childish/less naughty reference to being a cousin of Count Chocula...
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| Marcus Doit Like Bernie Posts: 642  |
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Written by Marcus on 16.08.2011 at 00:34 Even Lebron left Cleveland now... Who know how it even still exists 
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| Meller Sleazy Rider Posts: 30  |
Finally the justice has happened - we get Fistula some visibility and add-up to the MS database. Now all you daddy's little mongrels go and get a healthy dose of their unhealthy filth inside to tarnish your soul.
---- "Haloo? ...Mulla on sellainen tunne, ett' mä olen surmannut miehen."
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| Chainer Witch Hunter Gen Posts: 172  |
Was it really necessary to bash Cleveland for almost a full 1/3 of the review? As if the album's city of origin had any bearing on it's quality.
---- Written by Dangerboner on 02.11.2009 at 08:11
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One admin Posts: 15250 |
Written by Chainer on 18.08.2011 at 02:28 i didn't bash, i stated fact. and perhaps living in a bleak rust-belt town with all sorts of problems might... just might... have an impact on the people living there. seeing pictures of abandoned buildings decaying, rotting, the river on fire, etc, well, this ugly album is a fitting soundtrack. seems logical to me that bleak, ugly, harsh surroundings might lead to bleak, ugly, harsh music.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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| Chainer Witch Hunter Gen Posts: 172 |
Written by BitterCOld on 18.08.2011 at 04:45
---- Written by Dangerboner on 02.11.2009 at 08:11
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| Chainer Witch Hunter Gen Posts: 172 |
Written by BitterCOld on 18.08.2011 at 04:45 Well I stand corrected. When put that way it makes sense. Why should not one's surroundings influence the type of music one makes?
---- Written by Dangerboner on 02.11.2009 at 08:11
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One admin Posts: 15250 |
Written by Chainer on 18.08.2011 at 23:05 ayup. you cannot see a documentary on Black Sabbath without it being pointed out what a brutal hellhole Birmingham is/was and how it influenced them to eschew the hippie love bullshit of the time and make horrible, abrasive, scary music that terrified people.
---- get the fuck off my lawn. Beer Bug Virus Spotify Playlist crafted by Nikarg and I. Feel free to tune in and add some pertinent metal tunes!
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