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Metal for the New Millenium

patrick_pmac | CA | 08/03/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the modern age. Metal has no place here. All it's glam and sham was over-glorified and comically strained to its commercial restraints in the last decade or two of the old 19--'s.
I doubt any true Metallica fan can forgive them for their efforts of the past few years or so. And all the pure contemporary metal musicians wallowed in a small and unfortunately quiet place.So, what is left? Is there anything remotely reminiscent of the true roots of metal to appease the few who yearn for it? Are you a fan of Ozzy/Sabbath but his reality show makes you want to puke?This is 2002. No, there will not be another Sabbath or Iron Maiden, and thankfully no more of any video-big hair-painted face- label generated band in a feeble attempt to fill the metal void. Perhaps metal, (at least as I remember it), is gone and lost and just a fad that passed.But no!Afroqueen is here to save us.
Hints of early Sabbath. Music that is only done justice by listening to it loud. Real loud. But not that dated either. It's like they listened to some of the newer "contra-bands" and said, well we can do that better than Smashing Pumpkins (as in Gish, their only decent album), and we can sing better than those guys in Alice in Chains, (just not so weird and swampy). We got some guitars and some fuzzy effects and we're going to make some noise.So they don't want to be called metal. Apparently, they classify themselves as "stonerrock" which is not only a misnomer but an epitaph. Yeah, sure. Get stoned if you want and enjoy. But it's better than that.Get stuck in traffic, and then pop track 3 in your player (superhuman god). You'll know what I'm talking about.So- kyuss, sleep, hermano, and old loud noise. You dig them, you'll dig this."

Space age acid rock

Christopher Hivner | Dallastown, PA USA | 08/26/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Whether you call it metal or stoner rock, Astroqueen has a cool sound. I hear a cross between old Black Sabbath and Corrosion of Conformity. The guitars are loud and fuzzy and some of the solos remind me of Blue Cheer or Frigid Pink. "Landslide" and "Superhuman God" are standouts for me, but the whole CD is fast paced, loud and trippy. Astroqueen is a journey into outer space on a nuclear powered rocket."