Flying Luttenbachers, The / Spectral Warrior Mythos Vol. 1
Album: Spectral Warrior Mythos Vol. 1   Collection:General
Artist:Flying Luttenbachers, The   Added:Mar 2006
Label:Ugexplode Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-04-16 Pull Date: 2006-06-18
Week Ending: Jun 18 Jun 4 May 21 May 14 May 7 Apr 30 Apr 23
Airplays: 1 2 2 2 3 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jun 17, 2006: Cognitive Overload
The Elimination Of Incompetence
4. May 18, 2006: Baptism of Solitude
Improvisation One
2. Jun 01, 2006: Baptism of Solitude
Cataclysm
5. May 16, 2006: America's Least Wanted
The Void Part Six
3. May 30, 2006: Eclectica
Kkring Number One
6. May 12, 2006: Memory Select
Cataclysm

Album Review
Ben Wolfson
Reviewed 2006-04-04
Ferociously intense stop/start prog-math freakouts. This lineup of the Luttenbachers features the jaw-dropping Mick Barr from Orthrelm/Octis on guitar, though he sometimes refrains from the kind of nonstop modernist shredding featured on Orthrelm albums. With the exception of the improvisations (tracks 3 and 5) these are re-recordings with the new lineup of old Luttenbachers material from the last three albums.
Best: 2, 3, 7

1.Stuttery beginnings. Guitar and bass basically sound as if they're doing their own unrelated things at times (and that's not bad); alternates later between herky-jerky bits and more rocking, straightforward bits.
2.Propulsive bass, with some very high shrieking guitar. Some high distorted rapid chorded guitar strumming with a pounding rhythm section, then seriously off the hook soloing from Barr.
3.Would be at home on Shub-Niggurath album; heavy zeuhl bass and fast distorted ominous guitar playing. Relentless, though there's a brief breather towards the end.
4.This is from the first of the Luttenbachers' brutal-prog albums, Infektion and Decline. The guitar tone on this piece is interesting; very reminiscent of Yowie, who feature two guitars tuned a quarter-tone apart. The music is driving drums with the guitars playing some nice off-kilter patterns, stop-start in the middle. Ends with what sounds like a homage to Magma's “De Futura”.
5.Short improv, one crazy insectoid guitar and one (probably Barr) just going nuts all over; very high energy.
6.Barr plays bass on this one. There are occasional bits of catchy melody in the guitar! Very occasional. This is one of the less insane tracks.
7.Goes through a ton of changes; this is an excellent example of the general method, with some nice insectoid guitar and lots of rapid shifts.

Track Listing
1. Kkring Number One   4. The Elimination Of Incompetence
2. The Void Part Six   5. Improvisation Two
3. Improvisation One   6. Kkring Number Two
  7. Cataclysm