Various Artists: Songs From The Wasteland
- Society Burning - Naked & Savage
- The Last Dance - Deliverance
- Christ Analogue - Garden of Delight
- Wreckage - Tower of Strength
- Hotbox - Wake (R.S.V.)
- Stone 588 - Spider and the Fly
- Tungsten Coil - Serpents Kiss
- Fahrenheit 451 - Wasteland
- The Shroud - Severina
- Purr Machine - Butterfly on a Wheel
- Cruciform - The Grapes of Wraith
- Desmo Donte - Raising Cain
- Ex-Voto - Blood Brother
- Human Drama - Kingdom Come
- Eva O. with Stun Gun - Love Me To Death
As far as tribute compilations go, "Songs from The Wasteland" is rather shallow
and vapid. If it wasn't for the four Synthcore artists on this collection of
The Mission covers by Gothic acts, this mediocre and monotonous release would
fall flat on its face. As it is, the Society Burning, Christ Analogue, Hotbox,
and Tungsten Coil material is some of their worst. Perhaps the problem here
lies with the choice of cover material. The Mission were never a band I paid
that much attention to in my youth because I always though they were, well, as
mind-numbing as the High School pep rallies I was forced to attend. While
others will certainly disagree, I found "Songs from The Wasteland" an apt title
for a collection of tracks that are better off banished to the Gulag than
reinterpreted by any collection of artists.
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