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Opaque—The Cult of Survivors: Unreleased tracks 1997–2007 (2007)
Details
Four CD set released by Kovorox Sound to mark ten years of Opaque. Features unreleased live and studio tracks spanning the entire history of Opaque. each disk has been professionally duplicated with on-disk printing and is individually packaged in its own sleeve. the four volumes are packed inside a heavy weight plastic wallet with printed outer sleeve.
Tracks
Disc 1
- Pure sleaze food
- Agony blizzard
- Luggage
- Slow burning intrusion
- Razorwire katatonika
- They didn’t seem to appreciate the horror of it all
- The plexus of gore and grime and crime
- Absence
- Queue jumpers water torture
Disc 2
- All knowing
- Cannabalism, cookery and blood drinking
- Cold mist
- Consumating axe
- The cult of survivors
- Masochistic gut rumble
- Poured upon the fornicators
- The audience was over
- The cauterized stumps
- The tree on the hill
Disc 3
- Home made sauna becomes sweltering tomb
- Screams. stabs. aorta. death
- Beneath the awareness of mother culture
- No depravity taboo
- Rupturing organs laughing
- Crepitus
- Under the knife, under the spell of the anesthetic
- The illusion of petty individuality
- Spontaneous medical equipment
- Veiled assertations
Disc 4
- Super-k bills
- Anger screams
- Inside the voices
- Animal blood
- From deprivation
- Under guise of consolation
- The perfect wrongness
- Lice infested tea house
Review
More noise. And squeaks. Noise and squeaks.
Squeaks and noise. For girls and boys.
And then some pretty ambient tones.
And then back to noise and squeaks. And some ambient noise. And some ambient squeaks.
Four discs’ worth.
Conclusion
All very admirable and artistic, and skilfully executed. But not really for me. Sorry.
Review score: 20%