MODS CARVE THE PIG - ASSASSINS, TOADS AND GOD'S FLESH

''Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's... eh?? what the hell is that name? what cover is this and... '' These were the first thoughts I had about the first time I saw this album, this cover, this name, everything attracted me because of how unusual it is, and what did I think of this album? anyway....

The album starts with Horsepowered and when I finished listening to this song my reaction was ''what the fuck, I... I LOVED IT!'' Christopher Lee and Paul Enzio atonal riffs, the absurdly aggressive and raw punk vocals and the bass noisy and technical by Brent Oberlin, tje hybrid electronic drums by Dustin Donaldson, these 3 minutes and 6 seconds are the most explosive and chaotic 3 minutes and 6 seconds I've ever heard, and it was in this song that I discovered and fell in love with the unusual, surreal and visceral Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh.

The second album by the band Thought Industry, Mods Carve the Pig is a very Thrash Metal album with a direct, but extremely eclectic and strange sound that throws in your face a highly creative and crazy composition that borders on Prog Metal (and Avant-Garde Metal too), it's all very bizarre but at the same time very attractive and fun, I say without a shadow of a doubt that this is the most original album to come out of both the Thrash and Prog metal scenes, and beyond the crazy composition, the lyrical content, oh my god, is so insane and trippy as the composition, using a lot of stream of consciousness, see for example Horsepowered, which is a song about killing a drunk bus driver until he becomes a rock star, or Michigan Jesus which is about someone and Jesus talking in a bar about religion and leaving so he can get his wife from the laundry? It's strange, and it's precisely this strangeness that makes me love this album, I've never heard an album so self-conscious, so surreal but so well done, it's a unique and enigmatic sound, which goes against everything that metal and the music industry has established.

I like to call this album MIO (Metal In Opposition since there is Rock In Opposition) because that's exactly what it is, it's an album that scares Prog fans, Metal fans, Thrash fans and the average listener , is an album that absolutely breaks any idea of ​​what people have in relation to Progressive Metal, you won't hear beautiful songs full of solos with neo-classical vocals like Dream Theater or Symphony X, but rather bizarre and aggressive songs that are constantly unpredictable and super eclectic, as the Thrash listener will hear riffs that stop and come back out of nowhere with irregular textures that doesn't sound anything like Metallica or Megadeth, and the average listener... uhhhhhh this one will already have his brain all confused in the first seconds of Horsepowered, in the mood for band wants to have a really unique sound, I believe that's why he ends up not being so remembered, and that's what makes him so good, he's his own thing, and until the end, Thought Industry in the 11 songs just gets it right, It's all very technical, but very fun, very bizarre, but very attractive, the lyrical content seems like it was written by someone who wasn't at all sober, but it's highly engaging and philosophical, I love all the songs so much, it's an album which never tired me or sounded drawn out, and considering the scope, that's quite impressive in fact, Daterape Cookbook and Gelatin are even more direct and engaging than Horsepowered, Jane Whitfield Is Dead being pretty but distorted, sounding like a Prog parody Metal and Country music, Boil being all electronic and mid-tempo with a lot of Krautrock influences, Michigan Jesus being very hardcore and short, and so on, I rarely listen to all the songs on an album and I like to pick the shortest one, but Mods Carve the Pig has content that I like equally in all the songs, To Build a Better Bulldozer is the album that ends this rollercoaster, being instrumental, it is the most progressive song on the album, there is a part in it that is so unpredictable, that I refuse to elaborate, and so, the album ends, thus ending the album.

Mods Carve the Pig is a masterpiece and one of my favorite albums of all time, it is an album with a unique and ambitious scope that hits the nail on the head in every song, everything here is very original, the musicians, the mixing, the lyrics, is an album far ahead of its time that even today sounds unique, highly imaginative and bizarre, Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh would be the band's last album to have this sound, eventually becoming a rock band alternative, being also the last album to have Dustin Donaldson as drummer who is also one of the band's founders, which is a shame, but honestly, this album is in every way, the culmination of this formation, if you, dear listener , you want to hear unique and original music, listen to this album, easily, the most visceral and original thing that has ever come out in the history of Progressive Metal.

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