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Wi not trei a holiday in Sweden thi yer?

spiral_mind | Pennsylvania | 05/20/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"(Sei many interesting furri animals, including the majestic mooose... )



Combining freakish death-metal fury, abstract song structures, and omnivorous musical sensibilities with a huge dose of rampant psychosis, Vampire Mooose's scorcher of a debut is one seriously wild ride.. unpredictable, brutal and probably mentally unbalanced. The most obvious comparisons are with Meshuggah, due to the rigid blast-beat drums and the inclination toward deranged start/stop rhythms, and probably the Dillinger Escape Plan, due to the habit of unexpectedly changing gears on a whim often enough to suggest a massive dose of collective ADD. Some traces of rap/rock may suggest the stylings of Rage Against the Machine, but the Moooses (meeese?) are much more imaginative than that simplistic kind of look-aren't-we-angry trash. It just takes a while to realize it, since for the first several listens this disc slaps you in the face with a mishmosh of harsh sludgy chugging guitars and growls that seems completely chaotic. (I say 'growls' but the vocals are pretty different from the usual laryngitic rumblings your average metal band spits out. Here they sound so much like static or feedback that at first I thought this was a mostly instrumental album.)



These St. Louis madmen also have a love for odd shifts and turns that's twistedly wacky. Yep, you might not think there's that much room for variety between one style of metallic ear-bludgeoning and another, but there are quite a few of them here.. often within the course of a single song. It's all part of what makes this disc so fun and unpredictable. Maybe not everything works equally well - an inevitable risk when this many weird ideas are heaped together so crazily - but it does show some interesting audacity that they attempt so much so ambitiously. Or maybe it's a result of their running dangerously low on meds, I'm really not sure which.



I don't know who to really recommend this to, although fans of the aforementioned groups will probably get a real jolt out of it. Anyone else looking for something really hard-hitting, bizarre, cranky, punishing and all-around screwed up should at least give it a try or two or ten.



(Mynd you, mooose bites kan be pretti nasti...)"

Vampire Mooose (yes, with three o's)

Bryce | PA | 10/24/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"My brother just gave me a vampire mooose cd today and I am impressed!! This cd is solid, brutal metal with an almost melodic touch. Theres no filler songs. This is another cd where you just listen all the way through. Every track has its own unique touch like a different lyrical approch (a little FYI...if morgan landers from kittie was a guy he would sound like the vocalist from Vampire Mooose), a different style (track 1 has a tribal feel to it with the tom intro and track 8 almost has a latin touch and track 9 sounds like it would be featured on a sonic the hedgehog game.) This is a very talented band that shows a wide diversity of sound and excellent song writing skills. Its a shame not many people know about Vampire Mooose. But YOU know about them now and you need to buy this cd!!
Best Song: Spiderman Vs. Venom
One Word Review: unique"

Most Original Death-Metal out right now!

DankRaven | In the OGD | 08/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Its kinda short, but a non stop thrash/death metal blast all tha way to the end. Definetly one of the most unique bands around. Contains Meshuggah elements"