Description

Official Turkish licensed pressed cassette on Hammer Muzik. Clear cassette with grey text

With their fifth album, Chapter 13, the band moved away from the post-death formula into a more playful, rock n roll direction. Jan-Chris de Koeijer hasn’t made any adjustments to his vociferous throaty singing style and his deathly rending soar above this moderately noisy rockabilia which only sparingly reminds of the more belligerent spirit of “Erase” with the more courageous and intense “All Is Well” and “Nothingness”. These cuts seem like the solitary warriors here surrounded by sterile industrial stompers like “Broken Wing”, or relaxed bluesy semi-ballads like “Smile” and the all-instrumental idyll “Bordello”. The old fans will find it really hard to sit through the over 6-min pleasant ballad on “F.S. 2000”, but those who choose to stay with the album may be mildly entertained on the more vivid “Unsung” which captures some of the boisterous character of Monster Magnet’s garage rock feats. Not too many more intriguing tricks of the kind here, though, the band more interested in stirring a dance floor fiesta with the rock’n roll-ish “Burn Out” and the country folk music inducer “Super Reality”, the epic gothic/doom Cemetary-sque swagger of the closing “Serve The Masses” wrapping it on with equally as optimistic, albeit a tad more aggressive riffage. Was 13 the lucky number for the band? Not really since they split up soon after this opus release.

Track list:
1. Chapter Thirteen
2. Broken Wing
3. Nothingness
4. Smile
5. The Idiot
6. Repentance
7. Bordello
8. F.S 2000
9. All Is Well
10. Unsung
11. Burn Out
12. Super Reality
13. Serve The Masses