CATACLYSM

The Flying Luttenbachers

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RIO/Avant-Prog

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3.15 | 6 ratings | 2 reviews | 67% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 2006

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Cataclysm (4:50)
2. Demonic Velocities / 20,000,000 Volts (4:16)
3. Insektoid Horror (4:24)
4. The Elimination of Incompetence (5:45)
5. From Oblivion (5:52)
6. Interstellar War (4:49)
7. Fourth Movement of "L'Ascension" (9:07)
8. Regime (11:42)
9. Regime (2:46)

Total Time 53:31

Line-up / Musicians

- Ed Rodriguez / guitar
- Mick Barr / guitar
- Mike Green / bass
- Weasel Walter / drums, guitar (1), bass (7), Mellotron (9), composer & producer

Releases information

CD ugEXPLODE ‎- ug19 (2006, US)

Digital album

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THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS Cataclysm ratings distribution

3.15
(6 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(67%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(0%)
Good, but non-essential (0%)
Collectors/fans only (33%)
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THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS Cataclysm reviews

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Review by laplace
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A very self-assured album with more than a few nods to the experimental musicians of previous generations, "Cataclysm" is an accomplished album that none the less feels a little, well, generic.

The pace is kept hectic throughout - what with all the "angular" guitar lines that excite the music journalists - and the compositions are performed with skill and confidence, but the songs themselves are the problem as none of them really exhibits anything new - each is just a refinement of music that has already happened, be it by Henry Cow or Ruins or any of a hundred other bands who actually pioneered (some would say progressed!) during their existence. What makes it hard to swallow is that The Flying Luttenbachers aren't a new band, but one with fifteen years of history and exposure to the business - so surely they realised that they were releasing a relatively mundane collection of songs?

"Cataclysm" still has its moments (the two parter "Regime" is a lot of fun and would have made a more impressive EP on its own) but don't feel compelled to pick this up until you've exhausted the more earnestly progressive bands from the avant-progressive realm.

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