Voice of the Mysterons
 

By Carl Macki

 

 

Voice of the Mysterons
They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their Heads...
Boot to Head Records 2007
CD price: $11.00
MP3 price: $11.00
Available at :  http://cdbaby.com/cd/votm
(you can sample the album there)

Band Members

Otto NoBot -- vocals, transmogrifications
Mr Dougle McMysteron -- Cheesewire Guitar/bkv
Mr. Francis Schaeffer -- Disruptobass/bkv
Davetranxj500 --Rhytmn Unit/Breakdance Percussion

Track Listing

1 Sarx Machines Are Dying to Become Daughters and Sons (Irene, Ire
2 Electrocutesy Vs. the Shocking Alternative (A Love Song for The
3 Hyperboreans in Hyperspace – or – At the Back of the North Star
4 You Don't Understand My 25-Year Transmogrification Plan
5 We Are the Death of God Movement (This Is New Creature Rock)
6 Herbert Has a Horn: a Syllogism
7 The Behemoth Cum Leviathan Cum Cherubim Cum Seraphim... Manifest
8 The Ants of God Are Queer Fish (And Now Walk Gently Through The
9 The Manifesto Continued and Concluded
10 Daylight Monsters: a Faerie Shocker
11 Something Breathes Beside You in the Darkness
12 I. Hymn of the Mer-witch
13 II. Watershed
14 III. Great Gash in the Sky, Deep Heaven Descends
15 Intro to Horns
16 The Horns of the Lamb Do Grow Even in These Badlands
17 (Untitled)
18 (Untitled)

http://myspace.com/voiceofthemysterons

http://www.boottohead.com

VOTM are high touted and come from Scotland, and the United Kingdom, now Nottingham. They have simply been called brilliant so many times it like calling Tom Brady a good quarterback. Accordingly, Daniel Petersen (Otto) formerly of the American Christian horror punk band Blaster The Rocket Man, started VOTM. That's also how the Boot To Head connection started. "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" was the name of a innovative hit puppet science fiction show in England during the 60s: They were a race that lived on Mars who had the power to recreate matter. They announced: "THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS... WE KNOW THAT YOU CAN HEAR US, EARTHMEN..."
This album works for me, and I don't even feel I need to understand it.
It takes punk to the cliffs of obscurantism at the border of internal cleansing. or shambling... are they anti heroes or messiahs, at any angle it sounds like -punk...
Such self-absorption in these creatures! Vocals are verbose and full of demented lamentations...deconstructively delivered, and  irrepressible in its formative devolution verging to a pulsating connection with utter desecration.
That will be the blessings they also disturb.
Like ones who fell to Earth, they walk the shoreline of US Western Hardcore Punk, with Anarcho-British New Wave overtones. Comparing them to the Dead Kennedy's alone is a big mistake. It is possibly a mistake to compare them with anyone, but if one does, they are also close to Bad Brains, Man or Astro-Man? and Primus ... or the Second Coming of Mowgli with Captain Beefheart...Otto does sound like Biafra, and the tempo at times is Kennedyesque.
These are children harvesting sonic dividends and dissipating imagery: a golden punk masterpiece with the tension of hell -- one electromagnetic sweet heartac

he for you!