SEE DEEZ MUSIC REVIEWS Artist/Group Album Title: Label: Release Date Genre Overall Rating: * 4 Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith have finally returned to the band that made them famous. Brave New World's sound harkens back to Maiden's earlier times with Dickinson as lead vocal. As is stan dard with Maiden, the songs are long, the guitar solos are loud, and the lyrics ques tion people's perceptions of reality. di THE SONC I S ARE tONCI, THE CWITAR SOLOS ARE loud" Undeniably, Brave New World is one of Maiden's finest albums. With the original line-up from the 'Bos hack together, along with Jack Gers who was brought in to the band in the early '9os, Iron Maiden has re invented itself for the new millennium. They've never sounded better. For Fans Of Reviewed By Artist/Group: Album Title: Label: Two Years To Never Tooth and Nail 2000 Christian Rock, but better Release Date Genre Iron Maiden Brave New World Portrait/Columbia 5/30/2000 Heavy Metal 80s Iron Maiden D. J. Shuga Ghoti Hook Overall Rating: 0 0 Ghoti Hook is strong on the scene. Not their first attempt, this album explores "BORROW OR STEAL IT, CION'T buy IT" some new themes musically as well as lyrically. The serious lyrics explore the depth of emotion, but because of their faith in Jesus, the songs end in victory! For Fans Of: FFH, Michael W. Smith, Audio Adrenaline, News Boys Reviewed By Artist/Group: Album Title: Label: Release Date Genre Overall Rating: ** Not even one year after releasing one of 2000's best hardcore records ("Slither," June 20, 2000), Earth Crisis will have another great album, "Last Of The Sane," on the shelves January 23rd. This is E.C.'s I - ROM S R To Lid 1F ppliN ANcl ii it Di- Ad Kt - NNI ciys 10 II it 1011.1N( 1 (; I ONI seventh release on Victory, not counting one release on Roadrunner Records. This is a cover album with four bonus tracks of their own, previously released material. The bands covered on the album range from Slayer to Led Zepplin and The Dead Kennedys to the Rolling Stones. Killer album from these vets. For Fans Of: N.1.V., All Out War, Earth Crisis Last Of The Sane Victory 1/23/01 Hardcore Integrity Artist/Group: The Hope Conspiracy Album Title Label: Release Date Genre: Overall Rating: # ,# I've always been a fan of bands who keep it real with the fans. Bands who are just fans who got lucky enough to be signed. The Hope Conspiracy is one of those Cheap Seats Sticky Floors By Matt Mosley Capital Times Staff Writer Traffic Fall 2000 was definitely the season of the drug films. We started off with the Darren Aronofsky's amazing ly crafted and brilliant anti- drug masterpiece, Requiem For a Dream, and ended this season with Steven Soderbergh's rugged, drug war opus, Traffic. Traffic is a brave and socially important film that will knock loudly on the doors of anyone who has ears that can hear and eyes that can see. Michael Douglas heads the ensemble cast including Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta Jones. and Dennis Quaid who are trying to find their way through the thick brush that we call the drug world. Plain and simple, Traffic is a film about people and how they are affected by drugs. We see the drug world from every angle. from the politician, to the police, to the drug czars, all the way down to the lowly teenager strung out on crack What we end up with after the credits role and the lights come up is a message that should be echoing down the halls of Congress and in the living rooms of every home: that the war on drugs is as hopeless as the little boat in The Perfect Storm. bands. Obviously influenced by modem hardcore bands, Hope Conspiracy still "FANS WHO COT Lucky ENOUQH TO bE SIQNECI" manages to come across with an original sound. They have managed to put out one of the year's best albums while still work ing day jobs. If you want a great new hard core album, from a bunch of hardworking musicians, definitely pick this one up. For Fans Of: Snapcase, Earth Crisis Cold Blue Equal Vision It's Out Hardcore What really makes Traffic stand up and run is the direction of the great Steven Soderbergh. The man who has been pok ing his way along in the shadows of independent film since his break out in 1989 with Sex, Lies, and Videotape has finally hit the main stream this year. Thanks to a great perfor mance by Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. Each of his look, from the dreaminess of Out of Sight to the jaggedness of The Limey, Soderbergh is a man of true cine matic genius, and never has it been more prevalent than in Traffic. His gritty, hand held, "jump-cutty" style which he uses so ferociously is in his own way fighting the war on drugs. He is the truth teller in a film that is built around secrets. Everyone is hiding some- drug war is: a secret society that only the members know how to play. Soderbergh brings this to life by using a shaky camera and an over-exposed film stock. Traffic is reality, and it's raw and uncompromising. In short, it's the truth. rTmm? Horrible # I've Heard Worse ••• Borrow or Steal It, Don't Buy It ': I Would Probably Buy It ** 4 Stupendous * # film reviews films has a unique feel and thing, whether it's the obvious, as in hiding from the police, or whether it be subtle, as in staking out a sus- pect in a van. That's what the
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