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George W Bush Go Straight To Fucking Hell
Zandosis
George W Bush Go Straight To Fucking Hell
Genre: Metal
 
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Love them or hate them, Zandosis unleash their debut full length cd, "George W Bush Go Straight To Fucking Hell". Just in time for the mid term elections, Zandosis unleashes a shotgun blast of mayhem. Sounding like Mike...  more »

     
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All Artists: Zandosis
Title: George W Bush Go Straight To Fucking Hell
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Stickfigure
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 9/26/2006
Genre: Metal
Style: Thrash & Speed Metal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 616822038024

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Love them or hate them, Zandosis unleash their debut full length cd, "George W Bush Go Straight To Fucking Hell". Just in time for the mid term elections, Zandosis unleashes a shotgun blast of mayhem. Sounding like Mike Patton fronting a guitarless Melt Banana on crack. This cd has been six years in the making. For those not familiar with the band: Drummer Stewart Voegtlin started beating on double boilers and copper pots as a wee boy; smashed crockery followed. Several ad hoc kits later he was slashing and bashing with suburban Death Metal fiends, Lustmordem; terrifying posh Buckhead youth with rural heathens, Asmodeus, all while air-drumming at home to S.O.B., Bathory and Possessed. Wooed by the freedoms of late '60s european Jazz, Voegtlin sent the double kick drum to the shed and worked Metal's intensity into wave and pulse drumming - styles typified by Sunny Murray, Rashied Ali and Dutch madman Han Bennink. There are blast beats; there are relentless ride cymbal attacks and there's a bit of the unpredictable: conch shell, trombone and [broken] clarinet are given the selfsame mistreatment. Bassist Tony Gordon - honestly it's hard to tell if he's playing a Fender bass or if it is playing him. He's got the most unique bass sound anyone's ever heard, as often it sounds like something completely not a bass (most often it sounds like two battleships making love). His solo project is called Freebass, and again you'd be hard pressed to pick out any bass sound. Vocalist Marshall Avett started the Old Gold label in 1994; been playing with unrecognized geniuses in groups like More, Mato, Charlie Parker, Petland Toy Faktory, and Zandosis; likes ice cream; has cats named Fatty Nacho and Squeak; and has never ridden a crest of power like he feels when he announces these songs and launches into the resulting attack of sound and electricity.
 

CD Reviews

Ugh...
C. D. Haddon | ATL | 08/01/2007
(2 out of 5 stars)

"Atlanta's free jazz wheeling/noise mongering/experimental free for all trio Zandosis finally puts out a full length CD after years of tape releases and other more obscure stuff.



The one note "shouting a joke title about something terrible happening to a member of the Bush administration and then bursting into grindcore" approach of the first half of the record is kind of critic proof on some levels. Either you're going to be a fan of it, or you're not. The second half offers a boring, overlong noise piece...which is a little easier to critique. The piece is certainly nothing fans of avant noise will not have heard before, and in so probably isn't of too much interest



My rating of this record really comes down to the production. It's a thinly produced piece of work (the "grind" half being an especially thing mix that borders on sounding like it was recorded on a handheld tape recorder) with little dimension or space for the band to explore sonically. The music just simply isn't served by its lo-fi quality, and the record suffers immeasurably because of it.



In the end, this feels liks a joke record, not only for the jokey song titles but simply for turning this band into a two trick pony. I suppose that means the joke is really on fans of Zandosis, who had waited patiently for years for this band to put out a quality debut album."