3D House of Beef

3D House of Beef, 3D house of beef (Supergeisha)

Not since King Kong dumped his load at the back of the Empire State building (it was cut from the film) has there been such heavy shit. Tuning down to G, 3D House of Beef dredge up the demonic nightmares of a thousand demons - on bad acid - and turn them into a sonic death ray of pulsating riffs powerful enough to kill postmen at a thousand paces.

I first heard an advance of the LP on tape. It sounded great then, but for the CD they've had everything remastered and it shows! This is as crisp as your adolescent bedsheets first thing in the morning. That "heavy" does not have to mean sludge-ridden is proved beyond any shadow of a doubt on this album, we're talking heavy/industrial/noise/metal here, but, again, that's "metal" without all the cliched crap that for some reason causes hordes of pubescent Maiden fans to make the devil sign and swap acne stories while struggling to pull on a pair of their sister's aerobics trousers.

From the intro of "Heard you were dead" through to the closing clangs of a blinding version Black Flag's "Rat's Eyes", this is an album that's capable of using sound as a weapon. The twisted "Thalidomide" (replete with suitably disturbing samples), the ten minute dirgeathon that is "Crawl", the stuttering riffs guaranteed to cause maximum headbanging confusion to all the Beavis and Buttheads of this world that begin "Society of Old Crows" and the downright nastiness of "Identified by Dental Records" all combine to blow my head off every time I listen (well..)

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