{"id":2135,"date":"2007-08-30T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.themetalden.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2009-05-31T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:29:21","slug":"rocket-review-hallways-of-the-always-amaftev-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"ROCKET REVIEW: HALLWAYS OF THE ALWAYS &#8211; &#8220;AMAFTEV&#8221; (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 182px; height: 268px;\" title=\"g\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z89\/themetalden2007\/m_160ac248c9fabb19dbfe2ce21262c594.jpg\" alt=\"g\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hallways Of The Always<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A Masturbatory Aid For The Enthusiastically Violent<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>(Self-Released)<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">1. Longevity<br \/>\n2. Wet Nightmare Part 1<br \/>\n3. Rubber Woman<br \/>\n4.  Memoirs of a Streetwalker<br \/>\n5. Secret Handshake<br \/>\n6. Crushing<br \/>\n7. Wet  Nightmare Part 2<br \/>\n8. A Small Town in Purgatory<br \/>\n9. Trapped in a Dark  Room<br \/>\n10. Death is Her Life<br \/>\n11. Wet Nightmare Part 3<br \/>\n12. The  Madness<br \/>\n13. The Candy Factory<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If Ministry was a death metal band its name would be Hallways Of  The Always. Inspired by Charles Manson\u2019s song\u00a0\u201cThe Hallways of the Always\u201d, HOTA  is led by vocalist David Stitchez. <em>A Masturbatory Aid For The  Enthusiastically Violent<\/em> is abut as\u00a0heavy, lurid and flatout disturbing as  it gets in recorded music,\u00a0basically breaking down to ten seriously creeped-out  radio-length songs with three programmed preludes that make your skin crawl and  then some. The imagery and thoughts derived from this collection of highly  intricate grindcore songs injected with some perfectly laid re-sampling of sick  fetish sounds sits somewhere between a serial killer&#8217;s vicious mind and a  young\u00a0tortured victim locked down to an industrial cutting device wondering why  there&#8217;s fresh blood running down the walls. If you&#8217;ll please\u00a0excuse the  pun,\u00a0&#8220;AMAFTEV&#8221; has three killer standout tracks with &#8220;Rubber Woman&#8221;, &#8220;Secret  Handshake&#8221; and &#8220;Death Is Her Life&#8221;, which itself starts out with a woman&#8217;s  hardly soothing voice, asking the ever important question: &#8220;Do you ever  fantasize about being killed?&#8221; After listening to this album and its pummeling  onslaught of body-parts are flying blastbeats and mechanized monster\u00a0riffs, I  believe anyone with a heartbeat will be hard pressed not to entertain these  types of morbid thoughts and that in itself makes<em> A Masturbatory Aid For The  Enthusiastically Violent<\/em> one beguiling work of art.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Visit Hallways Of The Always On MySpace:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hallwaysofthealways\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hallwaysofthealways<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallways Of The Always A Masturbatory Aid For The Enthusiastically Violent (Self-Released) 1. 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