Continuum (Mentallo & The Fixer album)

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Continuum
Mentallo & The Fixer - Continuum.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 14, 1995 (1995-11-14) [1]
Recorded1990 (1990) – 1993 (1993)
Studio
Various
Genre Electro-industrial
Length71:28
Label Metropolis
Mentallo & The Fixer chronology
Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai
(1994)
Continuum
(1995)
Centuries
(1997)
Alternative cover
Mentallo & The Fixer - Continuum (2018).jpg
2018 remaster cover

Continuum is a compilation album by Mentallo & The Fixer, released on November 14, 1995 by Metropolis Records. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Music

Continuum comprises remastered tracks and remixes from Mentallo & The Fixer's recording sessions circa 1990 to 1993. The collection also draws from the band's first two releases, 1991's Wreckage + Ruin + & + Regrets + (Redemption) and 1992's No Rest for the Wicked . [5] [6] [4]

On February 16, 2018 the album was issued as a music download by Alfa Matrix on the label's Bandcamp. [7] [8] [4]

Reception

Sonic Boom was somewhat positive towards Continuum, calling the album "more of a greatest hits & misses compilation released so that the fans might have an idea of where the band has come from musically" and that "some tracks have the distinct MATF feel to them and others are quite unlike anything else they have ever written before." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dwayne Dassing and Gary Dassing.

No.TitleLength
1."Wicked" (Extra Sensory Perception)4:50
2."Perish in Peril" (Acoustikal)4:10
3."Mescaline"1:01
4."Narcotic"7:17
5."Doomsday Accelerate"6:55
6."Perish in Peril"6:42
7."Wicked"6:06
8."Clusterfuck"2:06
9."Contiuum"4:58
10."Narcotic" (Crystal Methane)5:11
11."Peril"4:23
12."Natalia"8:17
13."Wicked" (Psychokinetic)11:11

Personnel

Adapted from the Continuum liner notes. [9]

Mentallo & The Fixer

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1995 Metropolis CD MET 013
Germany Off Beat SPV 080-22392
Belgium2018 Alfa Matrix DL AM3255DJ

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