Tura Satana

Los Angeles, California/ United States Of America

All Is Not Well

August 16th, 1996

This Version

June 30th, 1998

KICK ASS METAL HEAVY METAL HALL OF FAME ALBUM

 

This is a NuMetal Holy Grail release.

Tura Satana when they were Manhole were a NuMetal progenitor, at the very beginning of the genre. Korn does not consider themselves NuMetal, or Heavy Metal.

 

But I have Korn in these pages because they were a important cusp band from Pantera to Tura Satana.

 

This CD is perfect GODLY NuMetal that is heavy as fuck, and i can see why bands like Sepultura, Forbidden changed there style.

 

The music on this album if pure and raw, and authentic as all can be like no other.

 

This is one of those albums, where the previous generations in heavy metal, show were the expiration date on there trend starts and stops.

 

The early developments in Groove Metal, and NuMetal start with the slow down syndrome in thrash metal.

 

The slow down syndrome is where the 1st wave of thrashers sold-out and became wiffle thrash in the process.

 

The slow-down syndrome is where it was not cool for the thrash metal bands to play fast and heavy any more, and most of them washing out in a major way.

 

Metallica stands out as the most obivious, since Master of Puppets is a whiffle thrash release. same with the 1987 offerings from the 1st wave of thrash bands.

 

With those hypnotic riffs but in place, it was Groove Metal and NuMetal that gave that style of thrash metal some authenticity.

 

Which were lacking in the wiffle thrash bands.

 

Heavy Metal history is Heavy Metal got swallowed up by the thrash metal craze, then Death Metal took over in 1990, then Black Metal has a craze for 2 years in 1990-1992. Then Groove Metal and NuMetal over took all those movements and styles, because it was the heaviest of heavy metal with the most lethal and most destructive heavy metal rhythms of eternal destruction.

 

When getting the progenitor releases of NuMetal. It takes 50 bands to create a genre.

 

And this is one of the most important release in this genre after Rage Against The Machine, Pantera. Exhorder, Korn, while i am not a fan of Body Count, Tairre B, says that band was the inspiration for this band and this direction.

I will never undisclosed facts just because i may or not like a band. Not the biggest Body Count fan, and not the biggest detractor either. I just never played the 1st CD that much, and i am not a hoarder, if there is a rare CD, and it does not get that much heavy rotation play. I will just put it up for sale so a true fan can have it and play it non-stop.

I got the Body Count CD when i seen them live at the earliest stages of there career. Sure the concert was fun, and entertaining.

For sure i remember Tairre B saying it was Body Count that gave her epiphanies and inspirations.

 

I really love this version of this release because the live tracks there is alot of on stage banter, where the earliest history of this style is documented in the bonus track section.

 

There are albums that are so authentic, when in company of those who like corporate rock, you have to turn down the volume or put on earphones.

 

Because the artistry has been raised up to the next level of the gold standard in terms of what is done in the lyrics.

 

I grew up in South Central Las Vegas, Nevada.

&

Not

In South Central Los Angeles, California.

I grew up in a White Collar household.

And I do like music and lyrics on the Occult & Gothic side of music.

But it is cool as fuck to see a mirror shown and held up about life like this ala Black Flag, Rage Against The Machine and Tura Satana.

Because it is just know once a person makes over $250,000 a year, or just $250,000 in a 5 year span.

One can not do Thrash and Rage.

 

This was released during the golden age of heavy metal journalism 1981-2008. When print media was all the rage.

So i don’t expect to this be covered by the likes of BNR or Metal Archives in a serious way since they are a internet age zine 2008 to present.

 

The internet never had any relevancy during the gold age of heavy metal journalism the years 1994-2008.

 

This band was covered non-stop by the actual heavy metal press, and there are tons of interviews, write-ups, concert review on this band.

 

What i love about this album it has the perfect elements of the Groove Metal-era, with the perfect elements of the bands one-of-a-kind Nu-Metal stylings.

 

I covered this since this is the band i like the most out of the Manhole/ Tura Satana situation. Since they had 2 GODLY World-Class Nu-Metal albums. Under the Tura Satana moniker.

 

The Manhole “All Is Not Well” CD sold fast as fuck during April 16th, 1996, when it was originally unleashed on planet metal .

 

Of course I am a true fan of Otep and Coal Chamber, and while i consider those bands as progenitors remember it takes 50 bands to create a movement/ genre.

 

Tura Satana Is at the most important inflection point for this style, just as important and acutally more important that the 1st 3 Korn albums.

 

Because Korn has tons of traces of Alternative Metal.

Tura Satana shakes all those traces off and goes for the fucking throat, and will be a eternal timeless masterpiece .

 

Because everything done on this album is just who the artist were, and watered down nothing to get the corporate rock fans. The made sure to do evertying at the highest level of the gold standard. and in doing so raised the bar in the gold standard.

Out of all my Groove Metal/ Nu-Metal CD’s this is like a Gold Grail, since it is at the beginning of the beginning.

 

Is Tura Satana a Gothic-age/ Avant-Garde-age/ Death Metal-age band. Tura Satana has innovation that will appeal to fans of the avant-garde, since this is a trail blazing album, and the heaviness will appeal to the most brutal of Thrash and Death Metal fans who like atmospheric albums such as Slayer’s “South of Heaven” & Scum “Purple Dreams & Magic Poems”.

 

Fans who love full on raging albums such as Jack of Jill “Clear Hearts Grey Flowers” will find something to sink there teeth into.

 

This is a album that will never leave my collection. Because it is always the progenitor albums, that have the most staying power.

Because it is the art that speaks the truth, and this albums is a supreme immortal timeless masterpiece of the the highest order.

The 1st Manhole CD, and the 2 Tura Satana CD’s are iones you will never see used ever i a second hand record store, because when they were 1st unleashed on planet metal.

 

All the true fans of this style and this artist, got multiple copies. And would never ever sell them.

The 1st Tura Satana CD’s must be put on your NuMetal top 100 list as to make sure they are never sold.

I found a back-up copy of this, recently.

And something that will never happen if you go to a record shoppe 123 times a year like i do.

I did hang out with tons of dudes who had the top 1000 death metal CD’s and the top 1000 heaviest groove metal CD’s. During to Golden Age of Death Metal and The Golden Age of Nu-Metal. And this is one of those CD’s in heavy rotation of those in the know. Who read the taste-maker and publication of Sounds of Death.

 

This is Heavy As Fuck.

And Is the Real Deal.

Timeless Immortal Masterpiece.

All Killer with No Filler.