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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.
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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.
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Two Years To Never
Tooth and Nail
2000
Christian Rock, but better
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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