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When the plastic empire falls, there's going to be the marauding vigilantism of Burning Brides around to clean up the mess, and to… er, burn some brides in the process.Tidal-wave riffage, ear-clouting percussion and grating, guttural vocals will accompany the post-apocalyptic landscape. 'Plank of Fire' opens as a multi-sonic blitzkrieg, with a tendency towards 'non-stop masturbation'. Rumbling its way into the devastation, 'Glass Slipper' provides a minute-and-a-half of pure pace-rock, while 'If I'm A Man' beguiles us with an uncanny similarity to Oasis' version of 'My Generation' - for the first part at least, and not a bad thing at all, with a blistering solo to boot, that melds into a howling atrocity.
And like a super-heavy, ultra-distorted 'I'm Only Sleeping', 'At The Levity Ball' saunters through a veritable bog of mind numbing drone-chords: "I'm wide awake but my mind's so far away" - certainly describes the effect.
Dark, storm cloud oppressive, and defiantly weighty, 'Fall of the Plastic Empire' produces stunning nuggets of the sonorously delicious and sinister, but is let down slightly by a repetition of the same-nightmare-different-song scenario. However, you want a taste of Judgment Day? Join the destruction.
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