{"id":24222,"date":"2015-01-16T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=24222"},"modified":"2015-01-14T23:09:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T12:09:36","slug":"wednesday-13-%e2%80%93-monsters-of-the-universe-come-out-and-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2015\/01\/wednesday-13-%e2%80%93-monsters-of-the-universe-come-out-and-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 13 \u2013 Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m quite partial to a concept record, one that sets up and tells a story and keeps you wanting to know what\u2019s going to come from the beginning through to the final song, what it all entails and just why this was the story to tell. Wednesday 13 is back with a new album, this time with a concept and one that is pretty well done in my opinion.<\/p>\n

From the opening instrumental \u2018The Fall of All\u2019 with its spacey tones and almost demonic at times groove, you wonder what is going to happen, and it couldn\u2019t be any more explained than with \u2018Keep Watching The Skies\u2019 a riff laden monster that means business. \u201cBow down and accept your fate, if you\u2019re praying to God you\u2019re praying too late\u2026\u201d are the opening lines and as I get into this one truly now fearing that \u2018Everything I know is a lie\u2019 and you listen and picture what this will be about, and I like it, I\u2019ve always been a fan of UFO\u2019s and the conspiracy side of things and to hear it put into this album is kinda cool, not to mention a little cameo from Channel 7 news here with a grab, way to go Mark Ferguson. It doesn\u2019t stop for a second as \u2018Astro Psycho – Galactic Blood-Drive\u2019 tunes in and turns up to play, it\u2019s just on three minutes and keeps the volume up high, as does \u2018Come out and Plague\u2019 and this one is rifftastic!! This one suggests we come out and plague and celebrate the end of days, and I know he doesn\u2019t mean that kinda awful movie with Arnie in it, because there\u2019s only one good Arnie movie to talk about and that\u2019s motherfuckin\u2019 \u2018Predator\u2019, oh and what a Segway, I didn\u2019t even mean that\u2026 or did I? *shifty eyes* but my favourite track on the album is the next one, a song with its name taken from the aforementioned \u2018Predator\u2019 and \u2018I Ain\u2019t Got Time To Bleed\u2019. This one is a straight up rock and roll song, it has a hook, a bitchin\u2019 guitar solo and will be so good to hear live when I\u2019m sure it takes its place in the set. I also now want to watch Predator again, so I\u2019ll be back to finish this in 107 minutes or so\u2026<\/p>\n

OK, I\u2019m back, man what a cool movie\u2026 anyway, sorry, got distracted\u2026 back to this album that is kicking my ass so far, but it slows down with an equally creepy instrumental much like the opener but less brutal and more even creepy, it takes us into what will be the next single from the album, \u2018Serpent Society\u2019 and if you\u2019ve been following the concept of the album so far, this song title should make sense to you, or as Wednesday put it to us \u201c\u00a0the whole reptilian agenda if anyone knows about that, and it kind of ties in with my story of a reptilian race that secretly kind of runs the Earth along with the government and blood lines\u201d so yeah, take that! It\u2019s as close as an Alice Cooper style track as we get on the album, and that rules to me, it just has that vibe to it. \u2018Bombs, Guns, Gods – This is a War\u2019 sounds exactly as you\u2019d expect it to with a title like that, and \u2018Planet Eater: Interstellar 187\u2019 gets the double kick thumping and much like the \u2018Alice\u2019 like track before, this one has \u2018Zombie\u2019 all over it, and it\u2019s a fucking monster!! Man, someone get that drummer a bottle of water to help him cool down, oh and a fade out?! I love a good fade on a song!!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s jump to the complete other end of the spectrum with my other favourite track on the album \u2018I Love Watching You Die\u2019 with a keyboard intro, it slows the tone down a few notches in what could almost be considered the ballad on the album, but the sentiment of a love ballad um, isn\u2019t here on this song, in fact, well the title says it all, you can listen to it to understand, but it\u2019s truly a standout here. As we now only have four tracks to go, the album really is coming together nicely in my opinion, these songs are strong, they\u2019re catchy and overall well produced, so I\u2019m looking forward to what the last four have in store for us. \u2018Into The Crop Circle\u2019 keeps it in the middle of the road and \u2018Over Your Dead Body\u2019 is another with a chorus destined to be screamed back to the stage from the pit when played live, with some killer riffs, great continuation of the story, and if you\u2019ve been following it, well, you almost don\u2019t need to, just read the song titles and you\u2019ll see how well this is going for all involved\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018The Arrival\u2019 is the third instrumental bridging piece, and this one sets up the title track, the closer, \u2018Monsters of the Universe\u2019 and what a way to go out. At over six minutes long, the story comes to a close, with a bang too, instantly the head is banging along with this one and that\u2019s something I love about this album in that there hasn\u2019t been a bad track on it, and what I really like about this track in particular is the way it trails out musically after the fucking evil last lines of the song and album, then the last almost two minutes of the song leave us wanting more, well, I want more anyway, are we all dead? Are we doomed? The creepy sounds that began the album play out again at the end and we\u2019re done\u2026<\/p>\n

Now to be fair, I\u2019ve listened through this album around five or six times and with every listen I like it more and more, the flow of this album is really well done and in terms of a concept, it\u2019s a winner. Now I\u2019m actually worried that if the lizard people and aliens are going to attack and if and when they do, well, I\u2019m hoping we can all sit down and play them this and they\u2019ll all be so impressed that someone wrote an album about them, buy a copy and go home. So, in summary, Wednesday 13, you may save us all with this album. Thank you!<\/p>\n

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Check out our interview with Wednesday 13 HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n

Producer: <\/strong>Wednesday 13<\/p>\n

Release date:<\/strong> 16 January 2015<\/p>\n

Record label:<\/strong> 3Wise Records<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.wednesday-13.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracklist
\n<\/strong>The Fall of All
\nKeep Watching The Skies
\nAstro Psycho – Galactic Blood-Drive
\nCome Out and Plague”
\nI Ain’t Got Time To Bleed
\nBloodline 666
\nSerpent Society
\nBombs, Guns, Gods – This is a War
\nPlanet Eater: Interstellar 187
\nI Love Watching You Die
\nInto The Crop Circle
\nOver Your Dead Body
\nThe Arrival
\nMonsters of the Universe
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