Inside Five Minutes sticks a twisted staff into rock's frozen mud and stirs up nasty, sludgy grooves in Stately Chaos Home, uncovering a raging musical spirit long-thought buried in the past.
Every song lurches with Black Sabbath malice.
Dynamics are more subtle and powerful here than the soft-LOUD blasts made popular by grungies. All the while, there's a sense that it's just barely being held together by some old nails and could fall apart any time. It would be nice to have a song about something, instead of just fragmented angst. The vocalist is one of those sing-speak ranters who is probably fantastic live, but needs to develop beyond a drone in the studio. You can almost smell the stench of stale beer and rotting, dusty floors where they stomped out the beat to these things live.