Ambugaton plays it a little safe, but gets everything more or less right.įC: The Freedom Club - Fans might give me a hard time for ranking this outside the top 10 but I've always found the menacing build of the first half to be far superior to the chaos of the second. It's predictably manic and somewhat overbearing but makes for a pretty enjoyable listen.Īmbugaton - fantastic jam, great structure and a stellar lyric. Helpless Corpses Enactment - the inevitable James Joyce track is quite possibly the heaviest caper in this band of heavy caper's career. Puppet Show - in some ways this is the quintessential SGM song, but it comes across more as a specimen than an epitome and has always struck me as somewhat formulaic.īring Back the Apocalypse - starting off as a pseudo-interlude with a very cool frenzied undercurrent that eventually spirals into a fist-pumping off-kilter mantra, this is a very nice example of a transitional song that stands strong on its own.ġ997 (Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's.) - SGM's parody rock song is hilarious and actually pretty groovy, but it relies a little too much on its irony to have much further impact. That said, its spareness is starting to grow on me, so who knows where it could end up given time. The Stain - whilst it verges on being one of their more tedious tracks, The Stain has a few kickass grooves that just about keep it animated. Not to mention that the band are fantastic and deserve more attention here. And so, here's a shot at an overall ranking to prove it can be done. I've been jamming these guys a lot recently and realised that it's often incredibly hard to differentiate the quality of their songs beyond the three vague tiers of GIMMICKY/VAGUE/IRRITATING, GOOD and FANTASTIC - their albums are dense, relatively consistent and usually bereft of highlight songs.
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