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Here at Attitude towers we do generally try to be honest and constructive in our criticism, most of the reviewers know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a bad review, and therefore even though we have had to listen to some really dire stuff, we generally do look for a silver lining. Occasionally though we get things which are so unspeakably bad that we have to let loose, so to all the people involved with Habacus Sucabah I apologise now.

Our esteemed editor passed this on to me, with the reassuring words that it was the worst thing he had ever heard. Knowing that our editor rates Helloween highly I was prepared to crawl beneath the veil of pretension that obviously had blinded him to the true intelligence that Rencontre II contains. When Si Tu Traverses opened up, full of stop start beats which seemed inappropriately timed, and faint deathly vocals, I thought that this was strange and challenging. The band are trying to achieve things which are musically wrong and therefore could be interesting. This was further bolstered when Habacus Sucabah decided to introduce a jazzy section, indicating that they actually could play instruments.

Within minutes I had stopped it in disgust and vowed never to listen to it again. The songs made me feel physically ill, it’s the equivalent of being shaken uncontrollably for hours on end, kind of like travel sickness, but not as much fun. [I bought a Hexx LP a few years back which to this day makes me feel ill if I listen to it - Ed] The stop start nature of the music, which has to be listened to, to be fully understood, and the frequent and utterly incomprehensible time changes are nauseating. Sure, yeah I guess they are challenging the whole nature of how music should be played, which in many cases is a valid reason for praise. However in Habacus Sucabah’s case the result is so monumentally inept, that this is the worst piece of music to be played since an ape first hit two rocks together. This is it, in the three or so years of Attitude, this is by far the worst thing I’ve ever heard. I’m sorry Habacus Sucabah, but you fail on virtually every musical level, there is nothing redeeming about this.

[Maybe now Graeme will stop complaining about getting mediocre CDs? Nah. To let you judge the music fairly, yourself, listen to them on Attitude Radio. - Ed]

Rating: **********  (0/10)