A shifty album of garage production demo's
Simon Hartmann | 10/20/2000
(2 out of 5 stars)
"The recent overwhelming worldwide interest in what has been happening with the very highly visible Artillery, has led their record company to finally release the oft mentioned, but rarely seen, Deadly Relics CD. By now a household name in all communities from Burma to Botswanna, this is an early look at the limp asparagus on paint tins producton values that Artillery dispensed with when recording their first full length album, leaving Sodom to pick up the pieces and run with them.Sodom did in fact run with them, though it is a point of conjecture as to whether running straight down a steep incline into a noisy swamp of crap is a good thing.Artillery, a favourite band of Prince William and Donald Trump, deftly managed their career by combining the releasing of albums of unbridled greatness, with what is known as "Black Hole Publicity" whereby every piece of publicty that accompaied these releases was not only stopped and negated, but 400 other pieces of information completely irrelevant to them was published.Artillery must stand as the one band on the planet who are a dominant force when it comes to knowledge about repairing garden gnomes, taking extended naps in broom closets, and divining water from dry lake beds.This is a must buy album, if not for the music, for what the album stands for. A flowing,stop-start compilation of jingles and death metal, sure to warm the cockles of your heart."
