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CARPATHIAN FOREST  We're Going To Hollywood For This - Live Perversions  CD   (Metal Mind)   16.98
We're Going To Hollywood For This - Live Perversions IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Carpathian Forest have long been one of my favorite of all of the Norwegian black metal outfits, a gang of frost-encrusted perverts and provocateurs whose music has often straddled the most barbaric sounds of raw second wave black metal and an demented disposition towards experimentation that would litter their demos and albums with everything from icy kosmische electronic soundscapes to the appearance of crazed darkjazz saxophones to covers of classic early 80s post-punk. From their early, more primitive efforts that were heavily influenced by the sludgy blackened heaviness of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost to their more recent, offbeat black metal hallucinations, the music of Carpathian Forest has been consistently hateful, savage, and adventurous, an instant recipe for adulation here at C-Blast. Several of the band's older titles have recently been reissued on vinyl by their current label Peaceville, which led me to track down both those and a number of assorted other Carpathian Forest releases for inclusion in the C-Blast shop; this is all vicious stuff, a sludgy and hateful black metal assault laced with a unique strain of Nordic weirdness, presented to you for further investigation...

While in the midst of my latest Carpathian Forest binge, I also came across what are apprently some of the last copies of the limited-edition digipack CD of the band's professionally recorded live set from Wacken Open Air in 2004. Titled We're Going To Hollywood For This - Live Perversions, this live album was released alongside a DVD concert film of the same performance, which captured the band in all of their debauched, bloodosoaked glory; you don't get the dancing girls with this CD version, unfortunately, but as far as black metal live albums go, this is one of the best I've picked up. Opening their set with the bombastic, macabre strains of their cover of the theme from Jorg Buttgereit's transgressive splatter classic Nekromantik, the band swiftly begins their assault on the Wacken masses, firing off nineteen detonations of lustful Satanic necro-metal. Their hour-long set, captured here in its entirity, draws heavily from their then-recently-released Defending The Throne Of Evil , Morbid Fascination Of Death and Strange Old Brew Album albums, blazing through violent renditions of "Bloodcleansing", "Knokkelmann ", "It's Darker Than You Think ", "Mask Of The Slave ", "He's Turning Blue", "The Well Of All Human Tears" and "Return Of The Freezing Winds". The Forest also belt out older tunes from their classic early Lps Black Shining Leather ("Sadomasochistic", ) and Through Chasm, Caves And Titan Woods as well as a couple of cuts off of their early demo tapes (like "Skjend Hans Lik"); of even more interest to hardcore Carpathian Forest fans are the songs that apparently only appear here, like "I Am Possessed " and "Nuclear Fucking Death Machine ". It's a killer concert, complete with ghostly dungeon-synth interludes, wisps of eerie neo-classical sound drifting through the space between songs, and the sound quality is about as good as it gets, everything clear in the mix, the instruments and vocals mixed tyogether perfectly, the whole thing sounding intensely powerful, and closes with a bizarre outro of Catholic hymns and orgasmic cries that plays on and on as the crowd chants frenziedly...


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