Buzzoven Revelation Sick Again
Review Text This album was supposed to have been released in 1998, but unspecified legal problems kept it on the shelf until 2007, when a bootleg vinyl version surfaced. Now, at last, it's out on CD from the label that was supposed to have issued it all along. Buzzov-en are kindred spirits to violent, rage-fueled Southern punk/metal acts like Eyehategod, Acid Bath, and Antiseen; on Revelation: Sick Again, they sound like a faster Eyehategod, with slightly more comprehensible vocals and a greater reliance on sampled movie dialogue (including snippets from some fairly high-profile movies like Sling Blade and Blazing Saddles, which may have led to some of the aforementioned legal problems). 'Junkie' has a surprisingly boogie-esque main riff that a band like Corrosion of Conformity could have done a lot with. There's also more of a psychedelic edge to some of their material, particularly 'Locked Up,' wherein the vocals are treated in a manner that recalls Black Sabbath's 'Planet Caravan,' even as the guitar riffs descend slowly into the abyss. Buzzov-en are perpetually hovering between crispness and slackness; they avoid the utter shambling disarray of Eyehategod, but aren't quite tight enough to be a metal band, either. They're some kind of slovenly variant of stoner rock, with extra feedback and relentless lyrical negativity (track titles: 'Drying Out,' 'Junkie,' 'Locked Up,' 'Lose').
Revelation: Sick Again is classic Buzzoven, replete with blistering Sabbath-ian riffing, throat torn eulogies to the narcotically oppressed. Ets 2 1.28 crack.
- Revelation: Sick Again Buzzov.en. 2011 • 8 songs • Rock • Indie / Alternative • Rusty Knuckles. This album was supposed to have been released in 1998.
- Revelation: Sick Again Buzzov.en. 2011 • 8 songs • Rock • Indie / Alternative • Rusty Knuckles. This album was supposed to have been released in 1998.
Longtime fans will be pleased with this unearthed material, which doesn't sound time-locked at all; it could have been recorded anytime between the mid-'90s and today, which says a lot about them and their chosen style. Phil Freeman.
Buzzoven Revelation Sick Again
About Buzzoven Buzzoven's albums are the stereo equivalents of the Faces of Death videos - every song is a bloodletting. With sudden outbursts of cudgeling feedback, they launch themselves into their music with berserker intensity. Wailing and gasping like a newborn, the vocalist condenses the trauma of birth and a lifetime of humiliation and pain into every verse.
As if this weren't audio savagery enough, the band also implement intermissions of loops and audio samples to tie it all together in a single gore-smeared fabric of misery - a claustrophobic listening experience from which there is no escape. Buzzoven courageously map the oceanic depths of the human spirit with the unblinking objectivity of a documentary. Few will like what they have found there. Chad Driscoll. Buzzoven's albums are the stereo equivalents of the Faces of Death videos - every song is a bloodletting.
With sudden outbursts of cudgeling feedback, they launch themselves into their music with berserker intensity. Wailing and gasping like a newborn, the vocalist condenses the trauma of birth and a lifetime of humiliation and pain into every verse. As if this weren't audio savagery enough, the band also implement intermissions of loops and audio samples to tie it all together in a single gore-smeared fabric of misery - a claustrophobic listening experience from which there is no escape. Buzzoven courageously map the oceanic depths of the human spirit with the unblinking objectivity of a documentary. Few will like what they have found there. Buzzoven's albums are the stereo equivalents of the Faces of Death videos - every song is a bloodletting. With sudden outbursts of cudgeling feedback, they launch themselves into their music with berserker intensity.
Wailing and gasping like a newborn, the vocalist condenses the trauma of birth and a lifetime of humiliation and pain into every verse. As if this weren't audio savagery enough, the band also implement intermissions of loops and audio samples to tie it all together in a single gore-smeared fabric of misery - a claustrophobic listening experience from which there is no escape. Buzzoven courageously map the oceanic depths of the human spirit with the unblinking objectivity of a documentary.
Few will like what they have found there. About Buzzoven Buzzoven's albums are the stereo equivalents of the Faces of Death videos - every song is a bloodletting. With sudden outbursts of cudgeling feedback, they launch themselves into their music with berserker intensity. Wailing and gasping like a newborn, the vocalist condenses the trauma of birth and a lifetime of humiliation and pain into every verse. As if this weren't audio savagery enough, the band also implement intermissions of loops and audio samples to tie it all together in a single gore-smeared fabric of misery - a claustrophobic listening experience from which there is no escape. Buzzoven courageously map the oceanic depths of the human spirit with the unblinking objectivity of a documentary. Few will like what they have found there.
Chad Driscoll.