Metallic Taste of Blood – S/T CD (Rare Noise Records)
Ten tracks of genre shunning weirdness; elements of industrial/electronic beats, prog rock ambience, classical piano/keyboards, Addams Family organ (‘Schizopolis’), metallic Middle Eastern chord progressions (‘King Cockroach’). It’s all a bit intoxicating; rather like standing in a doorway between two rooms with Porcupine Tree in one and Fantomas in the other. Ian Pickens











