PUISSANCE "Hail the Mushroom
Cloud" /
Fluttering Dragon 012
ELD RICH PALMER
Having released two albums and a 7" for
Cold Meat Industry, the Swedish eulogists of the nuclear apocalypse
went over to Warsaw based label Fluttering Dragon for which
they recorded their best album ever - "Mother of Disease".
To my discontent, since then their artistic condition has seemed
to be in a sort of decline. "War On" was but a compilation
of refurbished tracks from previous albums plus two unreleased
pieces, and "Hail the Mushroom Cloud" offers only
20 minutes of music that fails to live up to what you could
expect from the authors of "Mother of Disease". Not
that these 4 tracks are a total disappointment, but it seems
to me that the might and majesty those misanthropes have been
(in)famous for is not as mind-blowing as on "Back in Control"
or the third CD. Even the good old increasing of volume, which
used to be requisite for exposing the power of the previous
albums, is no help this time. The album for fans - with stuff
like that it might be a bit difficult to find any desperados
prepared to blow up the nearest reactor...
[Przemek Chojnacki]
