Cost: $1.00
Had no idea what to expect with this one. The band name, album title, and logo style indicated punk or metal to me, and the cartoonish demon cover art brought Green Jellÿ to mind. Some songtitles and lyrical themes were not very serious, making me think it could be some overly experimental stuff like Faith No More or Primus. The layout has a very minimalist DIY feel which screamed rare indie, so I ultimately picked this up doubting I'd ever get another chance. I was feeling more optimistic after I got it home, as the live pics in the booklet looked like a '90s thrash band to me.
The CD goes all over the place, although the majority of the disc can be comfortably called metal. The guitars are consistently heavy and metallic through the disc, but the style of the first two songs and the weird vocals (on the first track they're very nasal, on the second they have some loudspeaker effect on them) had me thinking that it was going to be overly quirky. Suddenly, the title track kicks in with a main riff that sounds like a heavier version of old Dokken. It's sadly the only song of its type on there, but some songs get pretty thrashy. Sometimes it's done pretty well, as on "Chess" (I actually kind of like those ridiculously high vocals during the chorus), and at other times it's a more generic chugfest. It's not all straightforward, though--there's the closing tune, "Mr. Cricket," about wiping out annoying crickets by eating them (yeah...), and that incorporates some slap bass and even a mock-rap section.
Had I known what this sounded like beforehand, I probably wouldn't have bothered to actively seek it out. Worth the buck, though.
The CD goes all over the place, although the majority of the disc can be comfortably called metal. The guitars are consistently heavy and metallic through the disc, but the style of the first two songs and the weird vocals (on the first track they're very nasal, on the second they have some loudspeaker effect on them) had me thinking that it was going to be overly quirky. Suddenly, the title track kicks in with a main riff that sounds like a heavier version of old Dokken. It's sadly the only song of its type on there, but some songs get pretty thrashy. Sometimes it's done pretty well, as on "Chess" (I actually kind of like those ridiculously high vocals during the chorus), and at other times it's a more generic chugfest. It's not all straightforward, though--there's the closing tune, "Mr. Cricket," about wiping out annoying crickets by eating them (yeah...), and that incorporates some slap bass and even a mock-rap section.
Had I known what this sounded like beforehand, I probably wouldn't have bothered to actively seek it out. Worth the buck, though.
