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Vendetta Red Sisters of the Red Death Release Date: 2005 07 26 Label: Epic Rating:

Banshees, serenades, silhouettes; the body and the blood. Vendetta Red's sophomore major-label effort really amplifies the grandiosity, dropping lines like "My bold bulimic belly dancer/Narcissistic necromancer" over the churning guitars and sporting a thematic framework that has something to do with cults and gorgons. But Sisters of the Red Death is really about Vendetta trying to find Radiohead inside My Chemical Romance's anxious racket. Zach Davidson does an uncanny channeling of Thom Yorke on "Shiver," "Run," and "Great Castration," and the songs shift abruptly from meandering lilts and treated elements into tense, screechy guitar climaxes, fits of metal-derived chording, and choruses that stick like pins. In other words, it's three cheers for sweet paranoid androids. Of course, amid its ambition and scraping for a broader sound, the band can still light into Between the Never and the Now-style Weezer approximations. "Vendetta Red Cried Rape on Their Date with Destiny" is suggestive of that album's "Shatterday" with its surging chorus (not to mention Fall Out Boy with that lengthy, self-referential title), and "Banshee Ballet" is a martial pop-emo rush. It's possible Vendetta Red's getting too epic too soon. Parts of Sisters of the Red Death feel too calculated or needlessly wordy, and the band occasionally gets lost inside the ultra-slick production. But it's still a promising step. Grandly ambitious is better than standing pat with simple songs to pogo to. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Vendetta Red Cried Rape on Their Date with Destiny	Vendetta Red	3:37
2	Body and the Blood	Vendetta Red	3:45
3	Dark Heart Silhouette	Vendetta Red	3:58
4	Shiver	Vendetta Red	4:03
5	In Lieu of Dead Brides	Vendetta Red	3:53
6	Silhouette Serenade	Vendetta Red	3:17
7	Banshee Ballet	Vendetta Red	2:42
8	Great Castration	Vendetta Red	4:34
9	Gloria	Vendetta Red	3:49
10	Run	Vendetta Red	4:10
11	Coital Improv	Vendetta Red	3:25
12	Joyless Euphoria	Vendetta Red	6:08

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