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  • Summary: The ninth full-length studio release for the San Francisco-based metal band was produced by frontman Mike Scalzi and Justin Weis.
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Analogue Avengers/Bertrand Russell's Sex Den
Locked in the darkness his purpose is clear The tape running fast through the gears Lost and forgotten it's his greatest fear The lone obsolete... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Feb 21, 2014
    81
    Digital Resistance might be older and wiser, a transmission from a lifer, but that not a quest out of which they’ve aged.
  2. Feb 19, 2014
    80
    Slough Feg have always been the heavy metal equivalent of Guided By Voices (minus the supernatural prolificity), and Digital Resistance does little to tarnish that reputation, as it plays as fast and loose with the genre as it does venerate it.
  3. Kerrang!
    Feb 19, 2014
    80
    Good, old-fashioned raging against the machine has rarely sounded better. [1 Feb 2014, p.55]
  4. Feb 19, 2014
    72
    Their pre-NWOBHM influences continue to reign supreme in the best of ways, but this auditory backlash to all of the technology that we surround ourselves with on a day to day basis takes itself a bit too seriously for what most of us would come to expect from a Slough Feg record.
  5. Feb 19, 2014
    70
    Not the most fashionable influences, obviously, yet Digital Resistance feels more like real rebellion than a lot of modern metal.
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  1. Feb 24, 2014
    9
    What I like about this album - from a band who I have not known about ever until today - is that they create rock/metal music which doesn'tWhat I like about this album - from a band who I have not known about ever until today - is that they create rock/metal music which doesn't blow me away by being too hardcore. Slough Feg remind me of some of the bands from the early 70s like Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull and Queen. Very good stuff! Expand