Album Review:

Anticore

  • Release Date: 2006
  • Genre: Rock
  • Label: Crash Music
  • Artist: Acumen Nation
  • Flags: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Styles: Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal

Review

It's impressive how long Acumen Nation have been able to keep their blend of industrial breakbeats and hardcore aggression going, while neither watering down their style into something more commercially acceptable nor experimenting so far afield from their roots that they risk losing their original fanbase. Anticore is a double-edged sword, however, since an equally valid although less kind description of Acumen Nation's ninth full-length album is that the group have found themselves in a musical rut. Songtitles like "Branch Davidian Style" and the Soundgarden-baiting "Black Son Hole" are about a decade out of date (only the anti-war-profiteering "Halliburton Rape Trial" explicitly acknowledges current political atrocities), and more importantly, the mix of the Jason and Ethan Novak's grunt-and-howl vocals, hyperspeed hardcore guitar riffs, and thudding techno beats throughout sounds like it could have been recorded at any point in Acumen Nation's career. There's nothing on Anticore that will turn off longtime fans of Acumen Nation, but it's difficult to imagine them getting particularly excited about it, either. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title iTunes Composers Performers Time
Bliss
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Jason Novak, Dan Brill Acumen Nation (3:14)
The Blind Pig
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Acumen Nation, Jason Novak Acumen Nation (3:12)
Day Care
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (3:34)
Black Son Hole
Jason Novak Acumen Nation (4:20)
My Lifes Last Breath
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (3:41)
Tools in the Blood Shed
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (6:34)
Branch Davidian Style
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (2:53)
Caustic Perimeter
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (5:20)
No Arms No Legs
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (4:01)
Jesus Loves You
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (4:10)
P.O.D.O.A.
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Jamie Duffy, Jason Novak Acumen Nation (3:23)
Haliburton Rape Trial
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (3:37)
Destroyasaurus
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (5:44)
Polhemic
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (7:00)
Message from the Grave
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Jason Novak Acumen Nation (4:59)

Credits

Jamie Duffy (Guitar), Jamie Duffy (Producer), Jamie Duffy (Mixing), Jamie Duffy (Electronics), Jason Novak (Guitar), Jason Novak (Vocals), Jason Novak (Producer), Jason Novak (Mixing), Jason Novak (Electronics), Lucia Cifarelli (Vocals), Lucia Cifarelli (Guest Appearance), Dan Brill (Drums), Eliot Engelman (Bass)
 
 
 

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