With its wicked spoken-word testaments to satan and its tributes to serial killers, Kiss the Goat is perhaps the most evil creation of Electric Hellfire Club. The group's sinister industrial pulse lacks the pure gothic/dance aesthetic of their debut, Burn Baby Burn, and the whole package has a bit more of a conceptual flavor. While the form exhibited on the record's many dark sermons outweighs the funky function of Kiss the Goat, numbers like "Evil Genius (Queen of Sin)" and {&"Love Is th...   [ read more ]

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For the longest time, Rob Zombie wished he could have been as cool as Electric Hellfire Club. Ironically enough, the release of Electronomicon sees the seminal gothic fave gone in Zombie's direction by employing ever more industrial-strength repetitive guitar thrashing and catchy choruses with far less doomy, keyboard-drenched dance fare. The addition of several prominent guest musicians from the underground black metal scene (from Dark Funeral, Hypocrisy, and In Aeternum) is ...   [ read more ]

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Slim Cessna's Auto Club, the country-punk band who've been spreading their gospel of tongue-in-cheek hellfire since the early '90s, return to Alternative Tentacles for their fifth studio full-length, Cipher. As per usual, the album is a kind of puritanical sermon on good and evil, God and the Devil, combined with a Western lawlessness that can be nearly chilling at times. Slim's the main singer here, his half-crazed voice like one of a man who's been pushed too far one too many times, lea...   [ read more ]

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