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Awesome! Song List

Greg Brady | 05/03/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I found this among my many tapes recently and still love it!! Thought you may like a song list for this one. Onemeny, Demoralize, Self Inflict, Rational Lies, Nightfall, Twisted Reality, Consequence, Dissolved, Nothing Sacred, Parasite."

One of the best industrial albums ever made!!

Mortifan | NJ, USA | 02/15/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I don't know why this item has no reviews, so I decided to give it one, even though I'm not an expert on it. I was recommended this album by a list of "best of blah bla" so I decided to try it - and was not disappointed. The drumming is the finest I've heard in a long time, and song composition/flow are excellent (rather than boring, repetitive, predictable, or pointlessly random and disjointed). The only thing I'm not particularly impressed with is the lyrics and vocals, but even still I find them decent - it could just be a matter of personal preference. If you are into any kind of industrial music, by all means give this album a listen!"

OK but missing something

Greg Brady | Capital City | 07/14/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Circle of Dust is industrial music maker Klayton Scott. He merges electronics and grinding guitars with audio soundbites to create a theatrical form of industrial that some have compared to Ministry. Whereas many industrial vocalists will prefer to shout their songs, whisper them through filters, or growl them hardcore-style, Scott's vocals for the most part are sung. This particular disc is a remix of the earlier 1992 version that Klay later decided he didn't like.



HIGHLIGHTS:

"Rational Lies" leans toward the more techno end of industrial and musters a pretty good hook about our tendency to allow for "little" sins in our personal lives. ("Get out of my head/Leave me alone/No longer welcome here/A voice so sweet/With words that kill/A wicked whisper in my ear") The apocalyptic "Consequence"'s essential point is summed up in a soundbite dropped in the middle: "Everything we do matters". It's an epic that slowly builds to the day we must all face. ("Eventually, the winds of judgement will be stirred/A throne of white/The book of life referred/See death and Hell give up their dead/As the books are being read/Record of each life speaks for itself...") "Dissolved" points out the essential meaningless of the pursuit of material gain. ("Your wealth/your pride/dissolved/in time/Reduced to dust/Your worthless treasures rust") "Nothing Sacred" is a paraphrase of the ancient wisdom that "A fool says in his heart 'There is no God'" ("No remorse, no fear/No sense of what is right or wrong/and neither do you care/Break apart the sacred vows/Mock the Holy Law/Judgement's hammer soon will fall/as never fell before")



LOWS:

"Nightfall", "Self Inflict" and "Parasite" are lengthy tunes without any real songwriting climax. More time needs to have been spent crafting hooks for these.



BOTTOM LINE:

There are few really good melodic hooks here..nothing as catchy as NIN's "Closer" and "Head like a Hole", MDFMK's "Torpedoes", or Deitiphobia's "Spill!". If there were more tunes like "Dissolved" and "Rational Lies" I could give this a heartier recommendation but as it is I think it's only for diehard industrial fans (i.e. "noisy" music lovers) and not for music lovers who happen to count some industrial music among their listening."