Earth Crisis’ new release “Last Of The Sane” isn’t your normal album. This new c.d. features seven cover songs (the first seven tracks), a new song, plus some re-makes of songs from their “Gomorrah’s Seasons Ends” EP. After ditching Victory for major metal label Roadrunner, Earth Crisis has come back and signed again with Victory.
As in AFI’s brilliant 200 release, “The Art Of Drowning”, this c.d. starts out with a short instrumental track that sets the tone. The cover songs follow. Some notable remakes include Led Zeppelin’s “The Wanton Song”, Black Sabbath’s “Children Of The Grave” (one of my all time favorite Sabbath tunes), The Rolling Stone’s “Paint It Black”, The Dead Kennedy’s “Holiday In Cambodia”, and The Misfit’s “Earth A.D.”. Most of these songs are decent, yet for the most part, the covers aren’t direct copies of the originals, they have Earth Crisis all over them with the sXe-grind-metal influenced sound.
The next three songs are songs that have appeared on various compilations. The songs are from some time ago, meaning that the music is more slower, and often a times, very dark in nature.
I’d really only recommend this to long time fans of Earth Crisis, but at the same time sXe hardcore fans who have never heard any Earth Crisis have been given something interesting to check out.
-K