Review by SilentScream213 for God - The Anatomy of Addiction (1994)

The Anatomy of Addiction is a highly dense record with a lot going on, but not much to grab onto. It has a variety of styles and influences present across the nearly 80 minute runtime, and in no way is this a regular Industrial Metal album. In fact, I have reservations about calling this Metal at all; sure it’s got some harsh vocals, drums and a guitar, but this is heavy in much the same way as Swans’ early material was. It’s not metallic.

There are pretty much two things that go on here that I can’t stand;

- One or more instruments will repeat one simple beat, melody, or sound over and over, sometimes for minutes, and it’s never anything good enough worth repeating that long

- One or more instruments will break out into free improvisation, doing stuff with no sense of rhythm or key or anything pleasant at all. Just to sound as chaotic as possible.

I will say that for what it is, it’s not poorly done. I do think they achieved what they wanted here. I just happen to strongly dislike it.