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MONSTER MAGNET Test Patterns Vol. 1 By Andrew Depedro, Ottawa Corespondent Tuesday, November 8, 2022 @ 10:06 AM
If the latter description conjures up bizarre images of the cast of the faded MTV reality show engaging in their regular ritual of GTL with the uncomfortable sounds of CAN and KRAFTWERK resonating in the background, you just might be familiar with the cosmic doomsaying grooves of MONSTER MAGNET from their early days.
Indeed, the Red Bank, New Jersey-born and bred band were several cosmos and a flashy black ’79 Smokey And The Bandit Trans Am away from the major-label, alternative rock boom that would suck the band into the shiny MTV world of the early to middle 90s. Originally formed by Dave Wyndorf, John McBain and Tim Cronin, MONSTER MAGNET came into the world with a lysergic ooze in 1989 with two demo tapes – Forget About Life, I’m High On Dope and I’m Stoned, What Ya Gonna Do About It? – making it perfectly clear from the start where they were coming from. This was a band reveling in bad trips and the death of the hippy dream with a Manson Family stare, playing squelchy lo-fi psychedelic music with a rabid punk rock sneer, like THE STOOGES terrorizing HAWKWIND at the most unpleasant free festival imaginable. There were tales of entire audiences at their gigs being spiked with LSD. It didn’t matter if this was true or not, it completely added to the mystique. For the ominous space tourist just paying a visit for the first time, this was indeed a satanic drug thing which you weren’t supposed to understand.
Intrinsically mesmerizing and sonically disturbing in all parts, it seems almost a missed opportunity that this perfect soundtrack for running a haunted house theme park to is being released 11 days after Halloween. That said, Test Patterns: Vol. 1 also appears to be the first of several experimental blueprints for MONSTER MAGNET to continue to explore deep within their core sound to rediscover and reinvent itself. It probably wouldn’t make for the ideal party jam if you’re looking to impress Snooki or J-WOWW at the next rager in Seaside Heights, though – unless you have the right amount of uppers.
4.5 Out Of 5.0
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