DISCLAIMER: I did not voluntarily review this disc. It’s Chris
\nThelen’s fault. Really. Send the hate mail to him.
\n(Editor’s note: Never mind, I have plenty of my own.)<\/i><\/p>\n
I suppose I was the most suitable person on the “Daily Vault”
\nstaff to review this on reflection, as I have played role-playing
\ngames — including White Wolf Games
\nVampire: The Masquerade \u2122<\/i> — for many years. I spent
\nfive years playing on-line White Wolf games; while I don’t quite
\nremember when
\nV:tM<\/i> came out, I do remember when
\nMage: The Ascension<\/i> \u2122 came out, so I suppose I have
\nsome history with the game.<\/p>\n
One of the things I learned in playing online White Wolf is that
\nninety percent of the players out there range from barely mediocre
\nto incredibly bad. The vampire genre, in particular, seemed to
\nattract a large percentage of idiotic, misanthropic lunatics whose
\nsole reason for playing a vampire was to act like a two-dimensional
\nantihero, a blend of superficial cool and posturing, soap-opera
\nangst.<\/p>\n
Know what? That pretty much describes this CD, too. Ninety
\npercent crap and ten percent interesting,
\nMusic From The Succubus Club<\/i> is at its best a fascinating
\nlook at vampire culture expressed through goth, industrial, techno,
\nand dance music forms, and at its worst the most painfully inept
\nexpression of vampire kitsch since
\nFright Night II<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong. There are some good moments on this CD, most
\nnotably The Cruxshadows’ “Deception” with its moody violin line,
\nSunshine Blind’s “Cold From Fever” (which has a great instrumental
\nbridge), and Bella Morte’s “Fall No More”, the best thing on the
\ndisc with its crystalline production. Unfortunately, those are all
\nthe moments there are, and it goes rapidly downhill from there.
\nAfter those tracks, the most amusing thing on
\nSuccubus Club<\/i> is the liner notes, and that should be some
\nsort of universal red flag.<\/p>\n
I’m going to be gentle and not take apart the rest of the disc
\ntrack by track, both because I don’t believe in unnecessary cruelty
\n(I suppose if I was a vampire, I wouldn’t play with my food) and
\nbecause someday perhaps a few of the worst artists on the disc
\nmight want to switch genres or styles… and if Alanis Morrisette
\ncan do it, anyone should be allowed to. But there are a lot of
\nadjectives I wanted to use in this section, so as a public service
\nI provide the following list to be applied wherever you’d like:
\nmonotonous, repetitious, trite, posturing, poorly produced, poorly
\nsung, poorly played, dull, shallow, superficial, hilariously inept,
\nawful, and about as likely to make me be interested in vampire
\nculture (which has several valid points, and please don’t consider
\nthis a condemnation of it) as having the last name of Van
\nHelsing.<\/p>\n
Please. Save yourself the trouble. This CD is marketing, pure
\nand simple, an attempt by a mediocre gaming company to shore up a
\ndying game. Even if you are into things nosferatic, it is not worth
\nyour time. Save your money for a couple of old Bauhaus CDs or
\nsomething. Drive a stake in
\nSuccubus Club<\/i> and move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5827],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-39443","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-various-artists","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39443","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39443"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}