''Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst'' is the eighth

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by Mentallo & The Fixer, released on January 19, 2007 by

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Reception

Marc Tater of Chain D.L.K. awarded ''Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst'' four out of five stars and praised the album for "presenting the very own multi-layered and complex style

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likes to create and is known for." Release Magazine gave the album eight out of ten, called the band "the sound of things to come" and said "oscillations run wildly through aural fields littered with rich textures and arrpegiations which begin and end in chaotically irrational patterns." I Die:You Die found the album to be a "mixed success", criticizing it's incoherence while saying "it's never boring certainly, and has some truly fantastic passages." Industrial Reviews gave the album three stars out of five and praised the dense complexity of the writing but noted that the melodic verve that former member

Dwayne Dassing Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & the Fixer) is the project name used by Texan electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Mentallo) and Dwayne Dassing (The Fixer) from 1988 to 1999, and by Gary Dassing alone from 1999 to t ...

brought to the band's compositions is missing from the album. Terrorverlag commended the psychedelic and brutal composition structures and commented that the band rarely becomes dull.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the ''Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst'' liner notes. Mentallo & The Fixer *

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(as Mentallo) – vocals, programming,

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, engineering, mixing,

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, illustrations, photography Additional performers * John Bustamante – additional vocals (5) Production and design * Benoît Blanchart – design *

(as The Fixer) – mastering, editing

Release history

References

External links

*
''Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst''
at Bandcamp
''Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst''
at

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