October 2014 – M U S T A R D R E L I C S

Scab Queen – Live @ Maker Fest 2014 (08.09.14)

Going back to that Martyred Heretics theme for a moment, or 28 minutes 42 seconds to be exact, I bring you one of the acts from said comp, Scab Queen. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, too long really, so this isn’t fresh like an apple picked from the tree, it’s more like your Grandma’s apple pie, it;s nice listening to it again after a couple of months. I fricken love live Industrial music. It’s like the difference between working out with free weights versus on the machines, a guy has the chance to really show his moxie in a live performance, it’s balls to the wall, right out there for everyone to see. Michael, the man behind Scab Queen, is an expert at making a glorious racket, ambient, abstract, avante garde-ness. When you give this thing a listen, do your pal Mustard a solid and think of me at the 9:24 mark, the perfect soundtrack to scene in a Lovecraft story. I think what I love most about Scab Queen, is that they are about as far away from Pop music as you can get, I’ve only just started to appreciate and admire it.

Tom Araya – Looks That Kill

Still waiting on the Martyred Heretics CDr to come back from the manufacturer and in the meantime was neglecting the Relics. Will be posting up again when I have those bad boys in my greedy little hands but had to break the silence and share something that I thought was real skippy. Tom Araya of Slayer doing the vocals for a cover of My favorite Motley Crue tune (God I hated that band in the 80s), “Looks That Kill”. The Youtube clip descriptions says “Rehearsal clip from Nov 1983 w/Tom Araya on vocals Dimitri Galeos & John Araya on Guitar Al Messi on Bass & Jake Alvarado on drums…” Fucking beautiful. Having spent a fair share of my time rehearsing with a band (to no avail, no matter how hard I practiced, I still sucked), I can’t begin to tell you how cool what is going on in this vid is…

REVIEWS: Please do not add the Mustard Relics site to you mailing list, so I get flooded with all kinds of garbage. I am currently being very selective about who I choose review (in other words I’m not really doing them). I do want to hear from artists and I will most likely listen, so if you consider yourself out of the mainstream and/or uniquely interesting, send me a link. This site is about celebrating music and art in general, but I do have a full time job and other responsibilities, making it difficult to keep on top of the normal bullshit I like to post and the massive piles of review requests I get…

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And when I said these things, the Savior said, “I have told you that these (people) are blind and deaf. Now then, listen to the things which they are telling you in a mystery, and guard them, Do not tell them to the sons of this age. For they shall blaspheme you in these ages since they are ignorant of you, but they will praise you in knowledge.”
“For many will accept our teaching in the beginning. And they will turn from them again by the will of the Father of their error, because they have done what he wanted. And he will reveal them in his judgment, i.e., the servants of the Word. But those who became mingled with these shall become their prisoners, since they are without perception. And the guileless, good, pure one they push to the worker of death, and to the kingdom of those who praise Christ in a restoration. And they praise the men of the propagation of falsehood, those who will come after you. And they will cleave to the name of a dead man, thinking that they will become pure. But they will become greatly defiled and they will fall into a name of error, and into the hand of an evil, cunning man and a manifold dogma, and they will be ruled without law.”
“For some of them will blaspheme the truth and proclaim evil teaching. And they will say evil things against each other. Some will be named: (those) who stand in (the) strength of the archons, of a man and a naked woman who is manifold and subject to much suffering. And those who say these things will ask about dreams. And if they say that a dream came from a demon worthy of their error, then they shall be given perdition instead of incorruption.”