Metatron

Metatron has a much warmer, more immediate feel,than previous efforts and the band really gets a chance to explode. The sparing and effective use of electronics leaves plenty of room for crunching guitar cascades atop a megabeat rhythm section. Stewart's lyrical visions have shifted from revolutionary politics to paranoia about late- 20th-century life: These Things Happen is his response to a bloodthirsty human time bomb...an accident waiting to happen. The CD adds an instrumental version of the opening "Hysteria," which sounds an awful lot like Black Sabbath's "Iron Man."