ZENI GEVA — Maximum Money Monster (review)

ZENI GEVA — Maximum Money Monster album cover Album · 1990 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
renkls
Like a proto-sludge metal bludgeon to the face, this Japanese band serves up an album that is suitably fierce and fiery, blending an unclassifiable mix of sludge and noise rock heaviness together as one. My version of the CD, and the one originally released, presses all eight songs on the album as one, 46 minute track.

First off, the negatives. The first track, Slam King is overlong, and quite repetitive. Unlike the following, shorter segments, this runs an interminable 16 minutes of what sounds like the same looping rhythm. While it's quite good for a few minutes, it can leave you deadened before the real good stuff arrives.

This album improves as each section goes past, getting more heavy and powerful with each passing moment. The closer, 'On Suicide' is a great finale. This is an interesting insight into early sludge music, heavily influenced by Swans, and I'd gather, quite influential itself.

4 stars for now, may improve with more listens.
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