Sonic Jihad by Snake River Conspiracy

Sonic Jihad, the debut from industrial rock outfit Snake River Conspiracy, came out on Reprise on July 11, 2000, with a UK release following that November on Morpheus Records, a Reprise imprint. A small crowd worked the controls, Eric Valentine, Jason Slater, David Kahne and Charlie Clouser among the producers, and it shows: the beats are serrated, the guitars distorted into sheet metal, and Tobey Torres' voice slinks and snarls through the middle of it.

Only six of the songs are originals. The other five are covers, and they tell you how the band thinks: the Smiths' "How Soon is Now?" and the Cure's "Lovesong" dragged into the machine age, plus T-Ride's "You and Your Friend" and two by Running with Scissors, "Act Your Age" and "Oh Well". Critics mostly liked it, praising the production's aggression and invention along with Torres' singing, and "How Soon is Now?", "Vulcan" and "Breed" went out as singles.

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