24/06/2022
A first to have 2 releases in one issue, thank you Jérémy André at NewNoise Magazine (France) for both of these great and well written reviews.
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Thank You: NEWNOISE MAGAZINE FRANCE for the incredible review of DAY ONE!
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A flattering 8,5/10 review in NEW NOISE print magazine (FRANCE) thank you Jérémy André
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Two years to the day after the release of the flamboyant Tribe & Throne, David Judson Clemmons (JUD, ex-Ministers Of Anger" and The Fullbliss) is back with a new solo album. Lights for the Living first sounds like a warning, resembling the relentless search for a life-saving outcome. Suffice to say that we are not having fun, even less than with Tribe & Throne, an achievement. Notably because of a tight production, without smacks, squeezed in closer to DJC's instruments and vocals, which squeezes your heart like an orange with the full hand, with its unique, magnetic, fiery intonations. 1998 at the time of the discovery of JUD's best album, Chasing California, and its acoustic/electric crossovers as splendid as they are depressive (“Berlin”). Same oxidation on the mind during the almost seven minutes of the opener “The Weakening” then of “Human Odyssey”, More still, one is seized by these successions of riffs which go directly to the head, finely & well delivered. Same with the fast-reading stoner of "Death Is a Room”. Well placed, the coup de grace will come at the very end with "Sea of Ends", reducing to nothing what we still had of optimism, so much the piece carries a vagueness in the soul loaded with tempestuous instrumentals and lyricism from the bottom of the sea.
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Here is a somewhat special reissue. Probably for rights reasons, Damn The Machine is remanufacturing the slightly different demo version of its one and only untitled album released in 1993 on the major label A & M. No doubt this post Megadeth band from Chris Poland, here associated with his brother Mark, ticked all the golden boxes of the time with their prog-metal mixed with thrash, fusion, even grunge. All massively produced by Brian Malouf (Michael Jackson, Queen, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Wolfmother...). The 90s in all their glory, which this Day One reminds us of like a fist rising from a grave. There is of course the virtuosity of C. Poland, registered in the Pantheon and on which it is useless to return, if it is not to recall that it is declined here on a palette as wide as Ever Given. But also the elasticity of the song of David Judson Clemmons, which it seems necessary for us to present each time although it is customary for our pages. He too will have done everything with Ministers Of Anger (with Dave McClain, ex-Machine Head, current Sacred Reich), Jud. The Fullbliss, etc. An album to (re)discover therefore, if only for the absolute perfection of titles like “Patriot”, “The Mission” or even “Lonesome God”. JÉRÉMY ANDRÉ damnthemachine.com
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