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Drums of Death

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Product Description DJ Spooky has teamed up with Dave Lombardo (drummer for Slayer) to create DRUMS OF DEATH. Added in the mix are the talents of Chuck D from Public Enemy and legendary Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid. To bing it all together Meat Beat Manifesto co-produced this album along with DJ Spooky. Review The tracks are, in a sense, the diametrical opposite of "nu metal"; Limp Bizkit, for example, uses inept hip-hop beats as a rhythmic base, but "Drums of Death"sound starts with Lombardoâ TMs Rock-with-a-capital-R kit work expansive, thick tom rolls and razor-sharp cymbals. Often this produces hip-hop/electronica-infused metal not vice-versa. Public Enemy frontman Chuck D raps on three tracks, all of them hard rock remakes of classic PE tunes; of these,"B-Side Wins Again"'s the finest, as Chuck rants winningly over Lombardo's lock-step snare, Dangers' chugging electric guitar and Spooky's chiming electronic beats and layered, panic-attack turntable work. (Chuck D's presence is a reminder of the golden age of 1987 when Slayer and Public Enemy were both on Def Jam Records.) Vernon Reid's howling guitar blends with Lombardo's cut-up, churning drums and Spooky's bleeping turntables on "The Art of War",and the result's not unlike very recent King Crimson."Terrus Nullius"sounds the most like a Slayer song as guest guitarist Gerry Nestler rips out a downstrokey riff and Lombardo finally produces that sternum-rattling double-kick badabadabadabada that is his sonic trademark."Assisted Suicide" has Lombardo playing a comparatively funkier pattern alongside Spooky's metronomic synth and a looped, warbling, wordless vocal from performance artist Meredith Monk. Underground hip-hop emcee Dälek contributes a terrific rap and the track is one of the CD's best. Best of all, there's "Incipit Zarathustra," a duet of sorts between Lombardo and Spooky no guests. Spooky's ripping, wildly imaginative turntable scratching faces off against Lombardo's drums-tutorial-video collection of patterns and rolls... --All About Jazz As an experiment in the bonding and boundaries of metal guitar playing and drumming with subtler, slower musical forms, Drums of Death is an unmitigated success due to the considered, multi-faceted way in which they are deployed on different tracks. Nestler and Reid supply bludgeoning riffs and teeth-shredding power chords as well as crepuscular veils of tone by way of ambience, and Lombardo s manic yet terrifically-controlled drumming lives up to his band s fearsome reputation, going from heaviest of funk breaks on Brother s Gonna Work It Out through the frantic onslaught of the more overtly-metal tracks, to King Crimson-esque percussion flurries on beatless tracks where his precision mocks any jazz snobbery. Miller himself is as usual an integral-yet-understated part of the proceedings, opening up track progression without seeming to dictate anything. His scratching and beatwork as always clinical, he was aided in production duty this time round by respected electro head Meat Beat Manifesto (AKA Jack Dangers), who also figured quite prominently on Celestial Mechanix. --Popmatters