Ultrainstinto
Try as they might, Medellín's shadows fail to obfuscate the descending passages, chordal crashes, and magisterial musical body that envelop listeners in this tale of dangerous mystery. Nor can lightning flashes of solo oration or raging vocal exhortations be taken lightly, such is the urgency with which they haul ass into your essence.
Video: "Ritual de las Sombras"
Fantasmatic
Perpetuum
(Self-issued)
Every urging element shouts from first notes: ardor-charged detonations that hurtle unmindful of resultant ruinations; rope-burned vocals, seemingly on loan from some forbidden guarida; and almost cinematic tableau dressing in which ominous entities, bereft of souls, crawl, lurch, and race toward unlighted wrecking floors.
Recommended: "Oscuro Recuerdo," "En Las Tinieblas," "La balada del loco," "Criminal," "Bye Bye Girl"
Videos: "Oscuro Recuerdo" (live) "La balada del loco" (live) "Criminal" (official video) "Bye Bye Girl"
Back in the Day, 1974
Blue Öyster Cult
Secret Treaties
(Columbia / CBS))
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Secret Treaties thrived on '74 U.S. charts for some 14 weeks, long before Eric Bloom and fellow metal-stringed cultists crooned of love's permanence despite the Reaper's inevitability. BOC commanded complex, cascading sheets of adamantium chordslides, killer riff-blitzes, and light-speed convolutions that surely were vital instructions for novice fret-neck throttlers the world over. All that and the staggering brainpower behind the Cult's fantastic lyrical spectacles (various pennings are by producer Sandy Pearlman, critic Richard Melzer, and singer/poet Patti Smith) meant such peers as were on the 1970s arena scene could only ponder their own stacked heels.
(In 1992, Treaties was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The LP was reissued, including by Sony and CD Media Records. A 2001, remastered CD contained five additional selections.)
Recommended: "Career of Evil," "Subhuman," "Dominance and Submission," "ME 262," "Cagey Cretins," "Harvester of Eyes," "Flaming Telepaths," "Astronomy"
Video: "Career of Evil" "Dominance and Submission" "Harvester of Eyes" "Astronomy"
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