Life's good for Danube's Banks: fame, success, l'amour. But this gig could prove to be their last. Stranded in a hellish neverland, they face the greatest danger for any musician: to die young on the height of their career. Will some tight gypsy swing save their souls from the Band Eater? And what sacrifices must they make to get to the top?
Super limited 3xCD version available exclusively from Relapse.com, featuring all the contents of the 2xCD version along with an exclusive 3rd CD, which includes over 40 minutes of never-before-heard DEATH demo / rehearsal material from May 1986. Housed in deluxe embossed and foil-stamped 8-panel digipak, limited and numbered to 2000 copies.
Zero Tolerance – both Karmageddon Media's single-disc version and the two-CD version from Candlelight released in the United States in February 2005 – has received its share of scathing reviews on metal websites. Those ultra-negative reviews of this collection of rarities by Death and Control Denied (the band that Chuck Schuldiner led during the last few years of his life) had many of the same complaints – the sound quality is inferior, Schuldiner's talents aren't adequately represented, and he never meant for these recordings to be released commercially…
With their surprise success behind them, the Cranberries went ahead and essentially created a sequel to Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We with only tiny variations, with mixed results. The fact that the album is essentially a redo of previously established stylistic ground isn't apparent in just the production, handled again by Stephen Street, or the overall sound, or even that one particularly fine song is called "Dreaming My Dreams." Everybody wasn't a laugh riot, to be sure, but No Need to Argue starts to see O'Riordan take a more commanding and self-conscious role that ended up not standing the band in good stead later…