{"id":3531,"date":"1987-08-01T00:00:55","date_gmt":"1987-08-01T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:14:51","slug":"album-review-kat-worship-me-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-kat-worship-me-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"KAT – Worship Me Or Die! (1987) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KAT
Worship Me Or Die!<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRoadracer (1987)<\/span>
Rating: 7.7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMetal\u2019s fastest guitarist, The Great Kat, the first guitar goddess and creator of \u2018Hyperspeed\u2019 metal, has blown the doors off the metal scene with the LP of the century!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The above quote is the kind of pre-release hype that Roadrunner\u2019s New York office has been saturating the metal press with over the past few months. Kat plays accessible thrash with strong catchy choruses, which is sure to gain The Great Kat and her band a sizable following, but I doubt very much whether ardent thrashers of the underground will take Kat that seriously. All the \u2018Satan this, Satan that\u2019 lyrical content is so old-hat that it\u2019s now become a pathetic joke, and in particular the lyrics to \u2018Satan Goes To Church\u2019 (\u201cSatan goes to church today, la-la la la la la-la\u201d<\/em>) and \u2018Satan Says\u2019 (Kat\u2019s Satanical interpretation of the kid\u2019s party game \u2018Simon Says\u2019) are plain embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Musically though the album has a lot of high points and, even if speed doesn\u2019t always make up for the lack of technique, Kat certainly shows plenty of ability on the fretboard and shows her virtuosity with a frenzied violin solo on \u2018Demons\u2019.<\/p>\n

Best cuts (musically) are probably the anthemic \u2018Metal Messiah\u2019 and the out\u2019n\u2019out thrash of the aforementioned \u2018Satan Says\u2019. The strong riffing \u2018Ashes To Dust\u2019 is also worth a mention (even if the lyrics leave a lot to be desired) and so too is the excellent production.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hardly the \u201cLP of the century\u201d and lyrics are certainly not Kat\u2019s strong point, but if you like thrash with commercial appeal then Worship Me Or Die!<\/em> is worth investigation, especially if you like tongue-in-cheek thrash like Piledriver. As the press release says, \u201cHyperspeed metal has arrived!!\u201d<\/em> But just how genuine it is remains to be seen?<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 25 (1987)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KATWorship Me Or Die! Roadracer (1987)Rating: 7.7\/10 \u201cMetal\u2019s fastest guitarist, The Great Kat, the first guitar goddess and creator of \u2018Hyperspeed\u2019 metal, has blown the doors off the metal scene with the LP of the century!\u201d The above quote is the kind of pre-release hype that Roadrunner\u2019s New York office has been saturating the metal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-kat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93871,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/93871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}