Excellent review. Subbed. This album was completely and utterly inimitable and although I wish there was a sequel with the original lineup, I’ll bet it wouldn’t have been quite as good. Still, nearly everything after this sucked in comparison as far as the gloomy genius of how miserable, dark, tormented, and strange this album was. Though Ross evolved a lot as a vocalist, Catastrophe Ballet and Ashes, though arguably better musically, were let downs in raw intensity compared to this… and Valor is an a__hole for literally f_cking Rozz out of the trademark in the 90’s. Rozz, however, was an idiot for not trademarking it and for not pursing at least a permanent duo of he and Agnew. Valor’s Christian Death is largely dog sh_t except for Atrocities, some of Prophecies, Evilution, and Evil Becomes Rule. Maitri is talented but it’s been a nearly 30 year revolving door of barely mediocre garbage. Valor is decent at rhythm and okay at singing but he’s still largely a nobody thirty years later and lives off a dead man’s name. They never went to court btw. That’s a Reddit rumor from the 90’s days people in LA tossed around. Ross died in 1999; hung himself of April Fool’s Day. Genius creatively and good looking guy but a complete moron with money, no business savvy, and an alchy drughead, egotistical weirdo. He was kind of an a-hole towards the end of his life to many people and died penniless. Finally, look up Shadow Project if you want the last decent taste of Rozz and his former wife Eva O, who is very talented but a piece of sh_t for writing love letters to that serial killer piece of sh_t Richard Ramirez. She’s another nobody. No one outside of Type O much later is really significant in goth metal after Rozz’s deathcore genre. You’d think there’d be hundreds or at least a dozen super noteworthy bands but there aren’t. The aesthetic was just used from Manson to black metal to horrorcore.
Excellent review. Subbed. This album was completely and utterly inimitable and although I wish there was a sequel with the original lineup, I’ll bet it wouldn’t have been quite as good. Still, nearly everything after this sucked in comparison as far as the gloomy genius of how miserable, dark, tormented, and strange this album was. Though Ross evolved a lot as a vocalist, Catastrophe Ballet and Ashes, though arguably better musically, were let downs in raw intensity compared to this… and Valor is an a__hole for literally f_cking Rozz out of the trademark in the 90’s. Rozz, however, was an idiot for not trademarking it and for not pursing at least a permanent duo of he and Agnew. Valor’s Christian Death is largely dog sh_t except for Atrocities, some of Prophecies, Evilution, and Evil Becomes Rule. Maitri is talented but it’s been a nearly 30 year revolving door of barely mediocre garbage.
Valor is decent at rhythm and okay at singing but he’s still largely a nobody thirty years later and lives off a dead man’s name. They never went to court btw. That’s a Reddit rumor from the 90’s days people in LA tossed around. Ross died in 1999; hung himself of April Fool’s Day. Genius creatively and good looking guy but a complete moron with money, no business savvy, and an alchy drughead, egotistical weirdo. He was kind of an a-hole towards the end of his life to many people and died penniless. Finally, look up Shadow Project if you want the last decent taste of Rozz and his former wife Eva O, who is very talented but a piece of sh_t for writing love letters to that serial killer piece of sh_t Richard Ramirez. She’s another nobody. No one outside of Type O much later is really significant in goth metal after Rozz’s deathcore genre. You’d think there’d be hundreds or at least a dozen super noteworthy bands but there aren’t. The aesthetic was just used from Manson to black metal to horrorcore.