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ESSENTIAL HEAVY METAL BLOG'S REVIEW of THE GREAT
KAT'S "WORSHIP ME OR DIE!" CD
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Kat - Worship Me Or Die (1987)
This lovely lady is, or was, known also as The Great Kat...being a young
metaller I actually feared the blonde bombshell who was touted, possibly
more by herself than anyone else as 'Metals Fastest Guitarist', and around
the time a majority of the record reviews were none too kind. I took it to
be a novelty record so never purchased it back in the day, it certainly
reeked of metal, as with gob open like a cavern, studded wristbands adorning
wrists and blonde locks flailing over her guitar, she screamed from the
cover like a banshee whilst on the back of the sleeve the allegedly evil
wench clasped the hair of her two rather silly looking bandmates, the
amusingly named Adam (The Animal) Killa, on drums, and Tom Von Doom on bass.
Many, many years later I dug this record out from the dusty vault and have
to say, I really like it...it may have been cheesy at the time but I
personally thought that hearing it now would make me cringe but it's not
novelty metal at all but a frenzied heavy metal opus with plenty of dazzling
guitar work-outs, (if she actually plays it!), and it's a potent mix of
technical hardcore and thrash built upon overly Satanic lyrics which at the
time must've turned a few heads even if the track titles such as 'Satan Goes
To Church' leave a lot to be desired, but it's clear throughout the record
amongst the forest of twiddling solo's, Kat's unhealthy yelps and general
scalping speed that there is a certain degree of decent musicianship and
quality archetypal metal. It's clear that Kat loves herself, the record is
littered with self worship but it's all done for the image I'm sure. I'd
like to have a pound/dollar for every mention of the words death, satan, kat
and demon, but this has more metal in its crotch than most bands I could
mention. All hail the Great Kat, even if she was probably a hairdresser in
her other job rather than Satan's bitch. This would've kept your average
13-yr old metaller busy for weeks...
7/10
Posted by Neil A at 07:46
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