The Church of Acid - Dark Publications

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Features two tracks not found on the USA version.

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5 out of 5 stars

Best VAC I own August 27, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

Again and again, I keep putting this CD on after years of having it. It's the only VAC record that can hold it's weight. Reason for this being it's the most imaginative and diverse. Plus it's always great to put on a CD and not have to skip any tracks- just run it from 1-12 and that's it. I would recommend this to anyone, not just electronic music fans. You might notice that other VAC works are littered with over-sampling and cheesy lyrics. Anyway, get Church of Acid, the import version (with Futile and Disflux) and you'll be a happy camper.

Highlights are LKATMF's, WHTSWHTK, Futile, Sex Disease, Pain

P.S.- If you can get your hands on Neuralblastoma, buy that, as it is in the similiar vein of material, but with a bit more guitar and hard driven beats.

4 out of 5 stars Wandering into Experimental Divisions of Darkwave/Industrial   June 4, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Out of this band's other Cds, this perhaps is the most interesting because of it's massive style of diversity. Like industrial? What kind? This cd has almost all genres covered within the industrial/darkwave community. It has guitar, the techno beat, distorted vocals, a depressing mood of music, and overall, great songs. This cd is for many, but not all. It's obvious that this CD would be one of the best of this band's work, considering the songs came off of there unreleased projects before hand. If you are or want to become a VAC fan, this cd is number one.

3 out of 5 stars short coming extraodinare   February 4, 2003
6 out of 15 found this review helpful

VAC have some truly good music mind you.("Falling Snow" is a great song) However VAC is not consistent and "Church of Acid" seems to flail while falling into the catotonic dribal that makes up to much of what we will call industrial/EBM/and Darkwave. For this matter so have all his other albums. The recording quality is terrible and the ability to procure an oringinal sound by most industrialites have always been a feebling attempt or a gesture that laped up the blood of Skinny Puppy. Now Skinny Puppy were amazing and we all loved them but argue it till you drop dead VAC is just another existential melodrama cartoon that lives in the shadow of a giant no matter what you have cloned them for.(Leatherstrip, Placebo Effect, so on) As good as Front Line assembly and Front 242 have ever been... no one else has been Skinny Puppy.

5 out of 5 stars Different   September 24, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This CD is definitley different then VAC's more recent releases... but i like this CD alot. it's not really a album, but more less the best of 2 older cds that were never officially released. my fav track is Hullucinagene. this cd is more of a industrial work then the newer, more dance driven vac.

5 out of 5 stars digital tension dementia!!!   April 9, 1999
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This record is a best of the bands first 3 cds that were out of print by the time Pendragon and OffBeat released it. VAC are often compared to FLA, Skinny Puppy and :Wumpscut:, but at times they achieve total originality in their chaos of melody, distortion and insanity! On Church of Acid you will find trancey atmospheres (We Have To See What Wee Have To Know), goth tracks (Pain), and always the intensity and brilliance!

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