First off, I gotta say that I prefer Tim Berne's live stuff to his studio work, although he still kicks ass in ANY setting. Some bands are just best experienced live and Tim Berne's groups are no exception. This isn’t BIG SATAN’s first live recording, but it’s definitely their best. Simply put, this fuckin' rocks out, balls to the wall.Marc Ducret share's more compositional duties with Berne in BIG SATAN than other groups, but obviously drawing ideas from other Berne/Ducret-involved projects like Science Friction, as well as Bloodcount and Caos Totale, so a lot of that past has played a big part in shaping BIG SATAN's tunes. Tom Rainey doesn't contribute much to the tunes themselves, but he’s a vital player to shaping the BIG SATAN sound. He basically puts the "BIG" in BIG SATAN, providing much of the bottom end.
The music goes many places, from dark and spacious to dense and pummeling in others. Probably this is my favourite live album from Tim Berne since Bloodcount's 3-CD set "BLOODCOUNT UNWOUND". As always, awesome artwork from one of my faves, Stephen Byram (thanks for the comment on my blog : )))))
This is the NEW metal, motherfuckers.
