SUPERJOINT RITUAL – Use Once and Destroy

Probably the fastest, heaviest album Sanctuary Records has released thus far comes from SJR. Written over an 8 year period (when the members had time off from their main bands), Use Once & Destroy delivers 16 tracks that range from early black metal, thrash, punk, crust, grind, southern rock to doom – often in the course of one song. As far as performances go, Phil‘s guitar playing is much better than his other projects and it doesn’t hurt to have the crushing riffs of Jimmy Bower to back you up either. Drummer, Joe, also does a great job of keeping up with Phil‘s variety of riffs & screaming throughout the record. Lyrically the album deals with such fun topics as depression, anxiety, death, drugs, alcoholism, abuse, and hatred. Thus providing the straight-edge scene’s worst nightmare. The 1st pressing includes two allegedly “rare” demos which offer a muddy glimpse in to SJR‘s sordid past. All in all, a solid debut, or is it comp of the band’s first efforts? It scores originality points for not sounding like anything from “Gothenburg”. Hopefully we’ll see a second album before Phil dies for the fourth time. (Sanctuary)

This entry was written by shady rajah, posted on July 23, 2002 at 1:27 am, filed under Reviews. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. sonnyjkillerbud36
    Posted January 20, 2004 at 1:37 am | Permalink

    great article. i about shit my pants from laughter when you put phil died for 4th time

  2. Brian
    Posted January 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

    Damn dude this album is a fuckin’ metal onslaught. It feels like a bunch of pissed-as-fuck metalheads with ADHD picked up instuments and cranked them bitches up as loud as they would go and then some. God, the feel of the of each song changes like three or four times during the course of it. There’s nothin else out there that sounds like this!

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