Mekong Delta Live At An Exhibition

2016, LIVE AT AN EXHIBITION is the first and only live album from intellectual thrashers Mekong Delta, serving as a stopgap between their DANCES OF DEATH and KALEIDOSCOPE efforts in the early 90s. Of course, this is the Doug Lee-fronted Mekong Delta, so we're not entreated to hearing the classic pipes of Wolfgang Borgmann at the helm, and in the live setting, especially on the band's earlier material, he sounds middling at best. The disc opens with ,,The Cure" from the first album, and the guitars maintain their fusion of rampant, jarring energy, but Lee's clean vocals sound like a Watchtower performance with none of the schizoid genius. ,,Transgression" and ,,True Believers" are wisely chosen from the band's recent DANCES OF DEATH LP, and these fare a lot better, since these were Lee's to meddle with in the first place. The rest of the set is rounded out by a few instrumentals, a few tracks from THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN (,,True Lies", ,,Memories Of Tomorrow") and ,,Hero's Grief", which is from the debut.