{"id":41713,"date":"2009-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/paegan-terrorism-tactics\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"paegan-terrorism-tactics","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/paegan-terrorism-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Paegan Terrorism Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

My son and I were looking for AC\/DC\u2019s Back In Black<\/i> in my CD collection when he accidently grabbed this disc. From 1996 until now, I have periodically pulled this album out when I needed a non-Black Sabbath fit of sludge rock with a lot of distortion and thick riffs. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

But apparently it\u2019s been too long. I forgot the growl of vocalist Dax Riggs singing the f-bomb in the opening track, a disharmonious union of bass and drums and guitars called \u201cPaegan Love Song.\u201d With drummer Jimmy Kyle pounding away under the direction of Riggs, and with guitarists Mike Sanchez and Sammy Pierre Duet riffing fiercely, Acid Bath is in their element here. The opening track always quickly reacquaints me to this band\u2019s material, and leaves no doubt that the band is serious about their material.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cBleed Me An Ocean\u201d is next, and at over six minutes, it\u2019s not even the longest track. With a slow plodding tempo, Riggs sings, \u201cMy fingers trace the exit wounds by graveyard light \/ There\u2019s bond dust in my throat and everything is DEAD;\u201d then, the morbid atmosphere of the music suddenly gives way to an upbeat tempo. \u201cGraveflower\u201d continues the theme of long songs with more morbidity and images of death. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

By the time the romp called \u201cDi\u00e4b Soul\u00e9\u201d begins, you are probably either ready to turn this album off or turn it up. It is during this song that Riggs growls, \u201cThe skyscrapers look like gravestones from out here,\u201d which must be his favorite image in the song because he sings it multiple times. On this song specifically, drummer Jimmy Kyle plays an interesting backbeat with a lot of syncopation. It\u2019s his second best performance on this release. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The best song here is number nine, \u201c13 Fingers,\u201d during which Riggs howls, \u201cI kissed a girl with 13 fingers.\u201d Let that image sink in. Turning the release on its ears, Riggs employs a screechy death metal, high-pitched vocal style (think Cradle Of Filth as a frame of reference) to change up the vocals. The guitars are sonically thick and Kyle is at his absolute best. The track\u2019s short length makes it seem like the song structure is more compact and less all over the map than some of the longer songs. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Then we get to the long song at the end that I hardly ever listen to, called \u201cDead Girl.\u201d It\u2019s not really a bad cut \u2013 it\u2019s just so out of place compared to the rest of the material. The guitar melody isn\u2019t very interesting and Riggs\u2019s vocals don\u2019t really capture my attention. It\u2019s the only clunker on this release.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really hard to realize that I\u2019ve been listening to Paegan Terrorism Tactics <\/i>for 13 years (I obtained it the year my daughter was born). Acid Bath is not a household name \u2013 I had to look on the Internet to see if they had ever released other albums \u2013 but I still find pleasure when I listen to this album.<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8467],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-41713","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-acid-bath","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41713","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41713"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}