Mass is the third and last full-length album by the experimental band Grotus.[1][5] The album's sound focuses more on alternative and blues rock than industrial and is perhaps their most accessible recording.[6] The band broke up the same year the album was released.
Critical reception
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the album "snot-nosed, sludgehammer rock that comes off like a minor league Wax Trax act," writing that "it flashes with brilliant bits, such as 'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do,' which sports out-of-tune piano pounding augmented by sequences and raunchy talk-show samples."[7]Ox-Fanzine called it "just plain boring, a pounding piece of pseudo-experimental alternative rumble."[8]
Track listing
"That's Entertainment" - 2:32
"A Bad Itch" - 3:20
"White Trash Blues" - 3:56
"Ebola Reston" - 4:12
"Hand to Mouth" - 2:57
"T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" - 4:04
"Sick" - 3:04
"Collect 'Em All" - 4:25
"Wild Bill" - 3:30
"The Bottom Line" - 3:31
"Back in the Day" - 4:10
Personnel
Grotus
Bruce Boyd - drums, turntables
John Carson - bass, sampler, electronics, synthesizer
Lars Fox - vocals, drums, sampling
Adam Tanner - Fender bass, string bass, guitar, sampling, electronics
Production
Chris Arvan - production, engineering
References
^ ab"Grotus". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 October 2020.