BLOOD DUSTER: Lyden Nå

Produced by Jason PC

Released: 2007

This album is like a Tourettes patient with ADHD stoned off their face. It's fast, loud, offensive, manic to the point of lunacy and then so mind-numbingly slow it has to speed up just to stop.

As if one volume of Blood Duster's patent insanity wasn't enough, Lyden Nå offers up three, each one showing a separate facet of the band's music. Even so, the first two parts are over in less time than it takes to listen to the average Arch Enemy album. Broaching subjects as diverse as crashing planes onto shithouse bands, face-ache cock-teasers on MySpace, taking drugs, and stomping around in piss, not to mention the odd swipe at emo and the trendy wankers who've ruined their beloved Northcote, volume one is Blood Duster's by-now trademark death rock. Enormous grooves are unleashed, Beltsy squeezes off some machine-gun like leads and they somehow manage to throw in a bagpipes player, Darryl Cotton from Zoot exhorting people to throw their drugs on stage and a guy tinkling away on a piano. The strange excursions into country aren't forgotten either, with Craig Westwood from DernRutlidge crooning away like a drunken cowboy on a track called "TheNightTheyBurnedOldEmoDown".

With some tracks barely longer than the time it takes to read their names, volume two is practically over before it begins. In the full-on percussive grind mode they cut their teeth on, Blood Duster rips through 16 bursts of noise, blastbeats and screaming in just 16 minutes and 11 seconds. This is the disc for the old school Duster fans, and with some of the samples running longer the actual music they accompany, they won't be disappointed.

Finally, there's "Slowandlongina", an immense mindfuck of a track that chugs away over the same slow-motion riff for 21 minutes. A secret code in Lyden Nå's packaging gives access to this brain-aching sludge monster via the Blood Duster website. Excruciating in its length and vast in its monotony, this is a beast that possibly only the most dedicated drone fan or the most royally wasted listener could truly appreciate. It's a pretty safe bet you won't be hearing them play this one live.

CD 1

1. Intro


2. Three Oh Seven Ohh


3. Pissstomper


4. TheKidsCanGetFucked


5. RockNRollJihad


6. BrokeAssBitch


7. MyspaceYourFace


8. AngryDragon


9. ILoveThePills


10. DusterDuster


11. TheNightTheyBurnedOldEmoDown

CD 2

1. TendonsSlicedForTransport


2. TheRichBreedFuckingCockheadChildrenWhoWillOneDayBeYourEmployer


3. TheWorldAndEveryoneInItDeservesToDie


4. RecreationalKilling


5. BetterStartASeedBank


6. ChildLabourEconomics


7. BarrelChockFullOfDeadCops


8. CzechItOutIGotSomeRules


9. Lustmord


10. OhMyMyraHindley


11. E55


12. RapedWithATyreIron


13. ISawYourDadSuckingOffAnotherDudesDad


14. OrgansForAProfit


15. StrungUpWithCockInHand


16. BalladOfHenryAndOtis

CD 3

1. Slowandlongina

Rating: 80%