Cities - Annihilation Absolute
May 6 2010 at 09:00:03 PM
Heavy Metal Pure. Metal Blade treasure from mid-80s gets quiet reish/remaster treatment from Lost & Found. Don't know the orig. pressing number, but platter went nearly extinct PDQ and ultimately either relentlessly bootlegged or available only in Jap ed designer-priced vinyl for past 20 years or so.
Strange claim-to-fame: Cities shares Twisted Sister drummer A.J. Pero. And, yeah, Pero behaves in similar fashion behind battery. (Paid my dues with Momma Dee & Grand-Ma-Ma Crew. Didn't do anything close to what
Annihilation Absolute did/does.) Axeman Steve "Aerial Servant" Mironovich—in point of fact. Mironovich aligns with Neo-Rhoads faction typified by
Metal Health-era Carlos Cavazo, hair-farming sprite Jake E. Lee. Riff ‘n’ run all stunning embellishments of
Blizzard-era Rhoads' MO. (It ain't all carnations: Vocalist Ron “Lurker Above” Angeli often comes frighteningly close to Europe's Joey Tempest. Zee Ultimate Sin...)
"Gang Vox" and Dave Murrayean face-peel pickin' perversely bring pieces like "Not Alone in the Dark" and "Burn Forever" (Mironovich's solo on the latter is mind scramblin') "up-to-date." No different from what lauded Black Metal front Weapon is doing in zee "CE." Really. Fret apocaplypse ends "Shades of Black," conflation of over-practiced spiel of Rhoads and dandified demi-lich, Mick Mars. But I really only want to hear "Deciever" from Friday 5 p.m. to Sunday dusk, whilst being fed tamales by baby-oiled P. Porzikova look-a-likes.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Cities
Annihilation Absolute
Metal Blade/Lost & Found
1986/2009
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