{"id":5714,"date":"2012-11-06T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2012-11-06T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:19:43","slug":"crucified-barbara-the-midnight-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/11\/06\/crucified-barbara-the-midnight-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"CRUCIFIED BARBARA &#8211; The Midnight Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5715\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/11\/06\/crucified-barbara-the-midnight-chase\/barbara\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5715\" title=\"barbara\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbara-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUghhh. Why oh why must the production on some of these Nuclear Blast releases be so goddamn clean? This all female band from Sweden takes their cues from Mot\u00f6rhead and Joan Jett but the production really hides that.<!--more--> I need raw dirty guitars, gross vocals, and dry sounding drums. I\u2019m thinking Diamond Head or early Priest recordings &#8212; more rock and roll. This all feels too arranged, rehearsed and digitally enhanced. I could barely hear the bass. The sad thing is the songs are pretty catchy. Lee Aaron\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4n6WjXWc-Fw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Metal Queen&#8221;<\/a> came to mind on more than one occasion. The heart is there, it\u2019s just the execution isn\u2019t. So disappointing. Fuck. (Nuclear Blast, <a href=\"http:\/\/crucifiedbarbara.com\" target=\"_blank\">crucifiedbarbara.com<\/a>) <strong>James Korba<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ughhh. Why oh why must the production on some of these Nuclear Blast releases be so goddamn clean? This all female band from Sweden takes their cues from Mot\u00f6rhead and Joan Jett but the production really hides that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[447,607,684],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-iconoclast","tag-metal","tag-nuclear-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}