MILLIGRAM: This Is Class War CD Digipak (T7001, OUT OF PRINT / available here). American (Cambridge, Massachusetts) stoner rock Check whole album, 26 songs, audio.

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OR   www.last.fm/music/Milligram/This+Is+Class+War

Cambridge, MA = Massachusetts

From the album title, one might expect some political punk rabble-rousing in the manner of Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label. Instead, Milligram’s debut album (originally titled “”Death to America,”” until a skittish post-9/11 label changed it to something less incendiary) pitches itself somewhere between the insular stoner rock of Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, or even the much poppier Built to Spill and the kind of advanced noise terrorism perfected by Japanese artists of the Merzbow/Boredoms axis. Aside from the 12-minute “”Death to America”” and the even more intense sludge rock grind “”My Own Private Altamont,”” which between themselves account for a full one-third of the album’s playing time, the tracks are admirably concise; indeed, some of the shorter tracks sound more like formal experiments, like the 57-second, Foetus-like blurt “”+2 Charisma.”” Others are simply isolated drum or guitar tracks from other, longer songs, added for no particular reason. Fans of the Butthole Surfers and Steve Albini’s more outré sonic experiments will find much to admire here.

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Drawing from influences of neo-classic Japanese sonic assaults such as the Mainliner’s masterpiece ‘Mainlinersonic’, High Rise – ‘Desperado’, Boris’ ‘Amplifier Worship’ and the stereo-attack of MERZBOW and MASONNA, along with a myriad of domestic influences ranging from Negative Approach, Melvins and early Husker Du, to the visceral pop songs of Neutral Milk Hotel…Milligram pushed for memorable choruses amid the degenerated blasts of drums, guitars and vocals all pushed hard through glowing tubes, until they were deep into the red. On Digi-pak

Track listing
1. Let’s Kill
2. Jeff’s Flag
3. Let’s Pretend We Don’t Know Each Other
4. +2 Charisma
5. Thousands and Thousands and Thousands and Thousands
6. Get F***** Again
7. I Know, I’m Sorry
8. Summer of Lies
9. Nice Problem
10. Winner Versus Loser
11. Saturation Emission
12. She’s a Prositute
13. Resentinel, The
14. This Is Class War
15. Baikal Depths
16. Baikal Shallows
17. Amess on Strom Thurmond’s Dress
18. Let’s Kill – (Drums/Vocals Only)
19. Constant Sucking Sensation
20. Emblematic Sac
21. Sadegh Hedayat
22. I Know, I’m Sorry – (Drums Only)
23. Thousand Cuts, A
24. Urdu Is an Amalgam
25. Death to America
26. My Own Private Altamont 62.$