hm, never heard of tomoahawk, but if it has mike patton, it sounds promising.

noise metal? WTF?

I love Tomahawk, but then again, I love everything Mike Patton seems to do. And this album is no exception. Good review!

The four first tracks are really good but then it's not interesting at all. But Mescal Rite is great!
Very hard to rate, but I'd give it 7 just for the originality.

I've only started to get into Patton's stuff recently, and one conclusion I drew was that Tomahawk never really thrilled me.

... but when I heard about the source of this album to be Native-American music, it really intrigued me. I should make the effort to get my hands on a copy.

Im a fan of Traditional Native American music, so this one definitely would be collected by me. So interesting mixed metal with native American music,

This was a letdown for me, I actually liked the more rockish Tomahawk, their debut is something I really worship in every sense of the word, maybe it's not as "weird" as other Patton projects, but as you said.."it's refreshing"... and it's always cool to hear the conventional side of this guy

I finally did get to listen to this album. Amazing.

It's very dark, but that's probably more for the reason that the music is inspired by a culture that has been dismantled and nearly eradicated through only a few hundred years of hate, greed, and ignorance.

Written by LethargyMan on 18.08.2008 at 00:03

I finally did get to listen to this album. Amazing.

It's very dark, but that's probably more for the reason that the music is inspired by a culture that has been dismantled and nearly eradicated through only a few hundred years of hate, greed, and ignorance.

Agreed with 100% of that post.

Nice review, this album is either genius or mediocre depending on what your previous experiences are, let me explain:

The camp I used to work at, there was a Tsu-Tina Nation (a north american aboriginal tribe) pow-wow rodeo type exhibition place a few miles away. Once per summer they'd have a big pow-wow and you could hear it from miles around.

Comparing "Anonymous" with what I heard from those pow-wows its incredible how closely Patton & crew were able to replicate the unique rhythmic patterns and vocals (most notably in the track 'Mescal Rite 1'), just amazing to say the least. Until you actually hear aboriginal cultural/heritage music first hand, I doubt one can fully understand the genius behind that masterpiece. Noticing you're from Poland Jupitreas I doubt you've had the chance to experience these types of things (hell, I doubt even most North Americans don't get to overhear an actual Aboriginal pow-wow in person). Try and find some of these types of things on youtube or something, then compare it to Tomahawks 'Anonymous' and your appreciation for this album will probably go up a little.