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Metal Maniacs
Alice Cooper
(Metal Maniacs, 2001-03-00)
Alice Cooper' Brutal Planet is up there (and maybe even a bit beyond) anything the man's ever recorded. It's brutal alright, a universe of rot and decay, eaten up from the inside out by sickening characters acting out their pathetic existences by spewing out hate, ultimately hastening the apocalypse. This is a planet where everybody dies ugly. There is no hope. The music is good solid guitar-driven hard rock. Yeah, the old Shock Rocker is back again. And he ain't resting on past shocks. He's got a new batch of brutality and boy does it sound good on headphones....