Viagra Baptism
Limp Nation

The Viagra Baptism is a strange band. You will hardly find anything more perverse, confused, and mad in the music world, without crossing into insanity. So far, they have only produced this concept album under the "Sperm Industrial," which was released on January 1st, 2008. Just an intro and 4 tracks for less than 15 minutes, which might be enough, also because if it lasted longer, the brain would be irreparably lost.

This "music," if it can be called that, is a mix of various musical genres: Ambient, Noise, Metal, Rock, Punk, Psychedelic, Techno, to name the most influential; musically, it has neither head nor tail, but it is explicit in the lyrics: they indeed talk about themes such as Freemasonry, urban legends, politics, but also drugs, sex, psychology, and hallucinations, up to the end of the world and touching on Christian topics, purposely offending religious morality.

If one notices a certain confusion from the "Intro", due to the "zapping" effect, as if someone were changing a channel or radio frequency, among the various speeches of presidents and great historical figures, in the next track the mind trips caused by this music are insane. In one of them, they talk about the famous "Room 101," from one of Orwell's most celebrated books, and I must say they have successfully rendered the "madness effect" that should ensue: the mind will start making strange reasoning, and you won't be able to focus on the sounds anymore because it will be almost impossible to recognize them.

The background noises are chilling and mad at the same time. The obsessive voice will try to hammer absurd choruses into your head, and numerous interruptions in backmasking (that is, listening backward, in this case, of the chorus), combined with unbearable background noises, will fuel the general confusion. The last track, "Flirting With Converting" is a mockery of Jesus on the cross, but without using blasphemy: a sort of Dan Brown-style blasphemy, but more mocking.

So, can this record be defined as a jumble of nonsensical noises and sounds? No. In my opinion, it is confusing and distorted, but it conveys what is meant to be expressed; it is certainly very difficult to listen to. I strongly advise against it, to be tried only if you are a music enthusiast and mentally stable.