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[Album Review] Tweaker ‘Call The Time Eternity’
When I first heard the band name Tweaker many years ago, I didn’t have much association to work with. But then, upon learning that it is a project from Chris Vrenna, who was a member of Nine Inch Nails as well as the composer of American McGee’s Alice, my ears perked up and my radar was set abuzz.
Now, years later, Tweaker is back with a third album, Call The Time Eternity. It’s been eight years since 2a.m. Wakeup Call, so has time treated this group well or should they have stayed in the shadows? Find out below.
The album begins with “Ponygrinder”, a mysterious track with rumbling bass undertones and frantic programmed drum patterns. As the song builds, so does the intensity and pitch, raising itself from low, unsettling notes to higher pitched static sirens.
The following track, “Nothing At All”, which features Jack Off Jill’s Jessicka Addams, is trip hop with a tough quality about it, as though it’s a song that you don’t want to mess around with. Further into the album, “Grounded” is an eerily sexual track that benefits from the vocals of kaRIN (Collide). Perhaps my favorite track on the album is the instrumental “A Bit Longer Than Usual”, which sounds like the perfect marriage between something you’d find on a Silent Hill soundtrack with a classy gothic nightclub.
The production of the album is incredibly varied and always kept me on my toes. It’s also a great length, at just over 40 minutes. While with other albums I might want more time out of it, this is the type of album that gives you enough over the course of 11 tracks that it feels like a full meal rather than an appetizer.
I imagine listening to this album whilst driving down the highway at night would be a very unsettling experience. Then again, listening to this album on a beautiful summer afternoon would make me concerned as to what’s outside and how will it try to kill me?
The Final Word: There is this deliciously sinister sense of foreboding that permeates Tweaker’s Call The Time Eternity. Perfect for the Halloween season but also fantastic for the rest of the year, this is an album well worth picking up.
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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.
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