New Hope for the Wretched/Metal Priestess

Artist: Plasmatics
Label: Plasmatics Media
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 663609010629
EAN: 0663609010629
ASIN: B00005ALHY

Release Date: 2001-04-10

New Hope for the Wretched/Metal Priestess

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Tracks:

Tight Black Pants
Monkey Suit
Living Dead
Test Tube Babies
Won't You
Concrete Shoes
Squirm [Live]
Want You Baby
Dream Lover
Sometimes I
Corruption
Butcher Baby
Tight Black Pants [Live][*]
Living Dead [Live][*]
Sometimes I [Live][*]
Lunacy
Doom Song
Sex Junkie [Live]
Black Leather Monster
12 Noon
Masterplan [Live]

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Customer Reviews:

Sometimes I feel it when you're down on your knees........2004-01-07

Released in 1980, "New Hope for the Wretched" is an anti-rock album that's intended to assault the senses, leaving listeners bruised and battered. Emerging from the New York punk circuit in the late 70's, the Plasmatics were a loud, uncompromising ensemble that cracked the status quo of the music industry and collapsed the foundation of mainstream America. And of course, the band was fronted by the one-of-a-kind Metal Priestess herself, Wendy O. Williams, a former stripper who uttered every album's lyrics with furious, gutteral snarls. A true icon in the music industry, she carved a bleeding trail for other hardcore, female-fronted acts, including The Lunachicks, My Ruin, and Otep.
This CD is an amplified masterpiece of dynamitic metal TNT. With its frantic drumming and raw guitars, "New Hope" features extremely loud and simplified anthems of violence, sex, and non-conformity. Although most of the songs were recorded in a studio, the sound was given as little buffering as possible, so it oozes the blood and sweat of an untamed stage performance. Some of the album's tracks, such as "Tight Black Pants," "Test Tube Babies," "Corruption," and the psychotic "Won't You" are spontaneous metal tunes that will melt your eardrums and leave your brain completely hemorrhaged! "Concrete Shoes" is a brutal and blistering song that's somewhat inspired by 1930's gangster flicks; with her incredibly angry growls, Wendy portrays a Mafia boss who tosses a corpse into the Lower East River. The album also features the single, "Butcher Baby," a hostile war anthem that conquered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom. "Dreamlover" is a romantic rock track that includes the over-the-top "noise jam," where the band members turned their headphones off and isolated themselves in different parts of the studio. By doing that, no one could hear what notes the other members were playing. This results in a 2-minute cacophany of beautiful chaos; the Plasmatics might as well have played their instruments while riding in a truck at 90MPH, only to skid off the road and tumble down a hill in a ball of flames! And, of course, don't forget the Plasmatics' underground classic, "Living Dead," a rebel song that addresses the damaging, 9-to-5 pressure society inflicts on its citizens. In addition to "New Hope from the Wretched," this CD package provides the entire tracklist from the band's EP, "Metal Priestess," a record that contains a slightly more polished rock sound. Skull-bashing tunes like "Doom Song," "Lunacy," and "12 Noon" are the first ones to dive into the cult bucket of sci-fi movies, festering zombies, blood rituals, and the coming apocalypse. Also, Wendy O. William's live rendition of "Sex Junkie" is as sleazy as the pages of a Hustler magazine. As a whole, this CD is a violent labor of love from a group of anti-art pioneers; it's a album that no death metal group has been able to imitate since.
While being the first stage act to fuse punk anarchy and speed metal, the Plasmatics became well-known for their dangerous theatrics: they sliced guitars in half with a chainsaw, smashed television sets with a sledgehammer, and detonated cars in front of a gawking audience. If that's not obscene enough for you, the lovely Wendy often performed topless onstage, displaying as much raunchy behavior as in one of her a XXX videos. She was a shock rocker who could have brought Marilyn Manson to his knees! Purchase this album when you can, freaks! While American buyers are slowly sinking into the artificial mud of Barbie doll clones, Wendy O. Williams's memory must be kept alive and well! The Plasmatics will live forever!

Butcher Baby...They're gonna put you away!!.......2002-08-24

This 2-in-one Plasmatics package contains the loudest, fastest and most hardcore rock music I've ever heard. When you press the play button on your CD player and hear the very first track, you will feel like you've been hit by a runaway train! Personally, my favorite track is "Dreamlover," because of its 2-minute long noise jam where the band members are isolated from one another and randomly play their instruments however they wanted...it's chaos at its best! Another favorite is "Living Dead," which is an absolute classic. Most of the tracks are raw enough that you almost can't tell whether they were recorded in the studio or if they were performed live on stage. "New Hope/Metal" is worth the money; get it while you can.

Nowhere Else on Earth.......2002-03-16

Competing with Styx and Reo Speedwagon in the late 70's, kept the Plasmatics off the radio, yet they sold out venues and were banned from England for provoking anarchy. This marvelous first album is everything the cover says it is. If one can put music to a cadillac in a pool, with a topless chick, and a guy in a tu-tu, the Plasmatics surely did. Songs on New Hope capture a political image of New York City, and political inconsistencies which exist across the United States. Unforgettable tracks include "Concrete Shoes" (images of executed corpses being draw from the East River in New York), "Sometimes I", "Butcher Baby", make me stand up and cheer at the Plasmatics blatent commentary of our wildly inconsistent American system, and are generally, well...just DAMN FUN to listen too. Nothing like the Plasmatics has come to be. If anything, it is worth anthropologic value, and should be played in GRADE SCHOOLS! "Metal Priestess", a later recording signals a transition towards heavy metal. One does not have to think much to thier lyrical message on this one (lots about chemical toxins, power hungry political hypocrites), yet the musicianship and Wendy's evolving vocal play remain inticing and leave the listener wishing their were more tracks on this album. The live cut of "Masterplan" show exactly how tight this group was. They are sorely missed.

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