There is a symphonic vibe to the intro along with the sounds of nature. It turns dark and dissonant later. Then pounding metallic music emerges, in keeping with the title. This is driving and crazed. The vocals bring a hardcore punk vibe with them. After that runs thought, spacey elements take control. Then we get a return to the hardcore meets metal approach before it drops back to mellower modes with a symphonic angle. A spoken voice joins at the end to proclaim that he hates himself, too.

Ambient weirdness gets things underway here. The cut turns more symphonic from there. It drives out after a time to something that has a lot of modern prog mixed with alternative rock and more in the mix. This continues to evolve with symphonic elements, alternative rock ones, punk angles and even some operatic things merging into something that’s decidedly The Residents.

Starting mellow and featuring echoey weirdness, symphonic things rise up from there. It eventually makes its way out to driving hard rocking sounds. It continues to evolve and display trademark Residents twists and weirdness. This really goes through a lot of changes as it drives forward.

Symphonic elements, art music, punk and more merge on this number. It’s not pretty, but it is dramatic and powerful. It has some skit type stuff built into it at times and is very dynamic and diverse.

This slow, dirge-like vibe is both oddly pretty and just plain tastefully weird. It gets more energized and driving later with some symphonic stuff. That doesn’t last a long time, though, dropping back to the slower stuff that came before.

There are a lot of spoken vocals in the mix along with some sung ones. This is dramatic, bizarre and really is trademark Residents. It is so weird.

Slow and dirge like, this is artistic. It’s also got a lot of symphonic elements at play. As strange as it is, it’s also somehow beautiful. It turns pounding and bombastic later with a sea of voices bringing a different vibe to it.

I really like the mix of art rock and almost traditional prog, symphonic and electronic vibes as this gets underway. This builds on those concepts throughout.

I dig the slow moving art rock vibe to this. It’s electronic and dramatic. It’s actually one of the more mainstream things on the album, too. Mind you, I’m not saying it’s mainstream, especially in some of the weird side excursions. But it’s more mainstream than a lot of the rest of the stuff here is.

The first half of this is melodic art rock. Later, though, it dissolves into extreme weirdness. This has some really cool electronic melodies serving both as the accompaniment for and the sound after a spoken monologue.

This is artsy, creepy and so tastefully weird. There is a lot of instrumental stuff. A section with some sped up vocals is absolutely terrifying in its vibes.

There is plenty of weirdness built into this. It has some gospel music in it. Then the lyrics from that get redone in a weird, freaky way, too. It gets into some driving art rock meets punk territory later, too.

Trademark Residents, this has symphonic vibes, electronic ones and art rock at its core. It’s dramatic and intriguing, but also tastefully weird.

Piano starts things here. It eventually works out to a dirge like movement. That holds it for a time, but then echoey weirdness takes over from there. This is artsy, strange and also cool.

Driving, artsy, rocking weirdness is on the menu here. This is a classy tune.

This is electronic, weird and still tasty. Most of the vocals are rather choir-like. The music gets somewhat symphonic as this moves forward.