One of the things that the heavy metal genre allows is for the
\npromotion (and sometimes abuse) of beliefs that you normally
\nwouldn’t hear in other forms of music. I highly doubt you’d hear
\nFerrante & Teicher espousing the glory of Satan in their piano
\nmusic.<\/p>\n
Yet metal seems to bring out every dingbat who wants to raise a
\nbeef with (insert your religion here) and praise the devil and
\nviolence. Some bands, like Slayer, have raised the music to an
\nartform – even if I don’t agree with the message, I can’t help but
\nappreciate the musical brilliance. Other bands, like Venom, take
\nthe images whether they believe in them or not, and base a career
\naround them. (I’ve heard various stories regarding whether certain
\nbands were truly Satanic or not.)<\/p>\n
And then there’s Goddess Of Desire. This group from the
\nNetherlands tries to live up to the demands of the genre, but their
\nefforts on their latest album,
\nSymbol Of Triumph<\/i>, are laughable. (If you think the music’s
\na hoot, you should read the description of their live show in their
\nbio – which I can’t find at the moment. Guess someone had to take
\nthe place of G.G. Allin.) For the most part, these guys and two
\ngals are a poor man’s Gwar – and I thought Gwar did for metal what
\nthe Jonestown kool-aid did for kid’s drinks.<\/p>\n
Let me see if I have got their schtick down, just from the album
\nart. The four guys in the band – cripes, looking at their Web site,
\nthey look like Ratt meeting Judas Priest in a dark alley – pound
\naway on their instruments, while three scantily-clad women prance
\naround in leather bikinis with metal studs for the T&A factor.
\n(Granted, this held my attention for a few seconds.) Green Jelly
\ndid this before, but they were at least
\nintentionally<\/i> funny.<\/p>\n
As for the music – c’mon, I’ve heard scarier things in
\nconversations at flea markets. Once in a rare while,
\nSymbol Of Triumph<\/i> does yield a semi-decent song, like
\n“Ride”. But for the most part, these guys invoke demons like they
\nwere ordering from a Burger King menu, and they’re about as
\nconvincing. Tracks like “Blasphemic Beasts Convoked,” “Whimps And
\nBastards” and “Worship Me” are about as scary as a B-movie.<\/p>\n
As for the Satanic theme, I personally don’t care who or what
\nGoddess Of Desire worship, they’re just not convincing. (They need
\nto listen to a group like Enthroned, who impressed me but also
\nscared the shit out of me.) If you need a cheap laugh, or you just
\nneed to see grown men prancing around in fur and Max Factor, then
\nSymbol Of Triumph<\/i> is your disc. If you’re looking for the
\ntrue darker side of metal, better keep on lookin’.<\/p>\n
A short review, I know – but there’s only so many ways one can
\nsay “this sucks” without getting repetitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7563],"rating":[11203],"class_list":["post-39364","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-goddess-of-desire","rating-rating-d-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39364"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}