BLOODY IMITATION SOCIETY: Regulation Over EP On tour from Japan, This vicious 4-piece made their US Debut at  San Francisco’s Boomerang on Haight!  With Opiate Void as a  lead-in, the stage was set for a worldwide takeover by this band  often described as a Japanese Rage Against the Machine.  The lyrics?  Most of em, I couldn’t tell ya....  My grasp of  Japanese is almost non-existent, but the five or so English  words translated in each song were quickly  chantable and catchy...”BEAST KIDS LIKE RIP!” They will by this time have finished the work on their second  (?) full-length available here in the States.  DEFINITELY check these four out when they are in the US again!!

Rating: 4.5 - Better than good,  but give these guys another coupla years to  come-out with the album that takes them to 5.

 

Rating System: 1 = Chuck it! Don't even waste your time burning this one. Get it away!! 2 = Listen to this once, then go ahead & burn this. Maybe inhaling the fumes will take your mind off these songs.. 3 = Not bad. While I wouldn't recommend buying it, there are redeaming moments making it worth listening to on the radio or maybe copying a tape off a freind to get a song or two... 4 = Good. Definitely go ahead & buy this one. Solid songwriting and musicianship make this one stand-out from the average heap.  5 = Semi-God. Wow! I mean, holy shit this is good! Easily an instant classic that gets a space in the car stereo rotation. 5.5 = Evey once in a while, an album is so good that we need to rate it higher than the Semi-God rating of 5. Reserved for bands that completely make us question all of our previously-held musical beliefs.

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