THE LOCUST
Flight Of The Wounded Locust (GSL)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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If you've never experienced The Locust... well, maybe you're better off. It's an experience that leaves wounds on internal organs, even if you listen at low volume. These guys play their tantrums at 60,000 beats per minute, somehow manage to break up the rhythm in the middle of that, they have a "vocalist," but his function seems to be to send out a frequency to corkscrew into your brain, grab something vital and pull it back out, depositing it unceremoniously on the floor. I dunno, I've had a lot of verbal reactions to music, such as "Wow," "Damn," "This is hot!," "This sucks," and even "I was better than that when I was 14." This is the first time I recall ripping off the headphones and screaming "OWWW!!! OWWW!!!! IT HURTS!!! GET IT OUT!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!" And they try to fool you, too, because almost all their songs are about a minute long, so just as you're about to swallow the cyanide, the song stops and you slide down the wall, weeping, promising God you'll really go to church now, not like those other times you promised, but then POW!! Another assault! The whole stinking CD is ten minutes long. That's all! Ten minutes and all that damage. I crawled out of the room and into the shower and just let it run. Flight Of The Wounded Locust? What have THEY got to be wounded from? They know what's coming and probably have earplugs. Put this through loudspeakers on choppers during low flyovers of suspected terrorist camps. That'll end the fuckin' war.

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