HOW TO KILL

Zeni Geva are a band whose sound has always been promising, but as a trend, their music started pretty horribly, taking a few albums before their sound started to get solid. 'How To Kill' is one of the first official recordings of this band, even before their debut album 'Maximum Love & Fuck' was released. As one may predict from what I just said about the upward trajectory the band went in, this is not a great way to hear the band. Considering that the first few albums were raw enough to sound like demos on their own, one may not even need to hear this live-recorded demo to get an idea of what it may sound like. Zeni Geva are by nature a very noisy punkish act, and with all of these being songs I had already heard performed on the apparently 'upgraded' full- lengths, I did not expect anything better from this. The live setting could be a very good place to see this band if you, the listener were actually there, but not hearing it second-hand. The recording quality is abysmal. The first two albums by this band are ones to stay away from, as so is this. Zeni Geva would not start getting interesting or even listenable until around their third album; 'Total Castration'.