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Art Review: They got the little chicken baby thing 10/10

Track 1: Griffin's Spike (4:07)

A heavy metal track with a cool intermittent solo, and some robo drums. Buckethead made this song for Blake Griffin the basketball player. Song does go eclectic midway through with some crazy riffing and killswitch action, but it's not too much different then any of his other stuff. Main riff is cool and catchy and the solo is pretty chill. 5/10

Track 2: Rammellzee: Hero of the Abyss (4:00)

This one starts off with some crazy digitech electronica zapping and a heavy riff. Switches over to some cool chugging wah action that's very sluggish. Slunkish? The tempo is slow and the 'abyss' bit really comes through with the deep bends and wah action. Drums sound mildly alive, less robotic then the previous song. 2:18 switches over to some weird wah playing then a sick riff with the heavy wah. Solo comes in with some spice and brings in some eclectic riffing too. Song ends off a little mysterious. 6/10

Track 3: Three Headed Guardian (3:56)

Buckethead straight away with the underlying lick and the solo flying in. Backing comes to the forefront with a nice riff and changes around with the distortion into the next section. More cool riffs. Solo comes back beautifully, really setting in stone with a fast flying riff and back into more heavy metal riffage. Drums are about in the middle of robotic and not. Solo comes in with some super speed and the song changes up drastically with some crazy super fast soloing that goes eclectic as per usual. Fast killswitch action and the drums are just crazy. Weird fast lick into a heavy finisher. Very cool and weird. 7/10

Track 4: Floating Graveyard (3:18)

Some creepy beginning vibrato into a heavy version of the same riff, wah seems to be quite present. The song then goes full metal with heavy drums coming and a sick backing. Switches back to the beginning riff, which transforms into another cool riff, which slides in the solo. Solo is creative as per usual and nothing eclectic comes forth. Song slows back down, back into the beginning riff and finishes off. Would be 8/10 if there was some more soloing but it kinda ends off bland. 7/10

Track 5: Ballad of Jerry Mono (4:55)

Jerry here has seen some beautiful sceneries that grace us, down a beautiful river valley into a soaring mountainscape. Very chill and open and begins to build up into something heavier. Solo guitar comes in the background with a different tone though doesn't last very long. Man this song is beautiful. Thoughts of a world of peace and flowers come to mind, a cottage that looks out onto the mountains perhaps. Around 3:00 it begins to pick up and get a bit faster. Super solo comes in as the song builds. Buckethead does some cool stuff then it actually just slows back down into something more calming. Song basically carries as it was before with a simple solo behind. Ends ok. Kinda faltered near the end. 6/10

Track 6: H.D. Autopsy (3:17) Starts off pretty heavy with some slightly quiet drums. Then an evil eclectic dark worldian solo comes out and the noises from beyond begin to chorus the sky. I can definitely see an evil doctor jamming out to this noise creation. Heavy bit is pretty good, and around 1:10 it switches over to something more listenable. Buckethead does some weird killswitch action then a sick solo comes in. Some heavy stuff jumps around and the solo keeps working. Song actually ends up being quite formatted in the later half and the solo is not very crazy. Just some fast whole fretboard riffing that swirls into the shadows of the slunk abyss. Ends off with some eclectic tapping. 6/10

Track 7: Droid Hunt (2:44) Ok, I'm in some sort of chamber where I am being turned into a cyber-slunk-o-tron-o-matic in front of a crowd of hungry chicken people. Back into some funk from buckethead with a little groovy riff then immediately my mind is being drilled into by the great master computer. Back to some groovy metal bits then a solo from beyond appears. This song reminds me of like all of the other songs on this album. Some weird stuff or normal riffage, then later an actual solid solo. This solo isn't too bad, some interesting stuff going on here with the vibrato, and its quite noisy. Not too notable. 5/10

Track 8: Battlefields (3:11) Another metal track with heavy riffing. This one is a tad groovetastic in its riffing style but nothing too great. Riffs go around and do some cool double layering stuff. Stuff gets quite heavy but nothing very interesting. Solo around 1:50, nothing NOTABLE. Man this one is just like the others. Very medial. Ending is kinda cool, but its really not hitting the spot. 5/10 but more like 4.5. Maybe 4.75.

Track 9: Handprint Ornament (2:46) Some slower atmospheric stuff with lighter drums. Guitar playing is pretty ok. Picks up midway through buts its about the same the whole way through. Just an atmospheric solo. End is good, more emotion. 4/10

Track 10: Harpoon the Goon (2:28) This one is another HEAVY metal rocker. It's got some weird riffage and it's also nice and groovy. ABC I love metal songs like you and me. Most of these would be good if not crunched into one album. Just boring to listen to 5 songs that sound similar. This one had some nice upbeat backing, drums are hella robotic, solo is nice. 5/10

Track 11: Critical Leg Assignment (2:33) Ok so back to the churning master. Some weird industrial super sensitive string ionizer from the backyard of bucketheads beast box. Name of the song is quite odd. Heavy riffing comes in a bit later. Weird stuff does not stop there with some weird 'soloing' and a funky bass backing. Eclectic riffing appears with the stupid goofy riffing which is so stupid. Very good. Weird stuff just happens here. This is a weird town. Ends off weird. 7/10

Track 12: Siamese Butterfly (1:54) Palm muted guitar with some ok drums. Goes around fast like a little dog then does some riffing like a dying water man thing from the glopian bellows of shadow cave. Yeah this is a bit creepy and just avante all over. Not too bad, music for a mad frenchman with a little yipper dog that pees on your shoe. 6/10 nice.

Track 13: X-Ray (0:49) My ears hurt. Just like if you put your head into a microwave and ended up speaking microwavenese, and now everyone thinks you're weird and a robot. 5/10

Overall a 6/10. Alot of repetitiveness but some of the weird songs were actually pretty good.

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