| Get The Guests The High Strung The High Strung are in the wrong music era. Get The Guests is every bit psychedelic as it is rock. It makes you wanna pull out a tub of ice cream and a bong. I honestly don’t know how this CD made it to my hands let alone the public. It seems like someone ripped the soundtrack straight out of Gigit and remastered it for current circulation. There is definitely a The Mama and The Papa’s influence here without the follow through. But does that work in the now? I don’t believe so. I don’t truly see a market for this album outside of coffee and head shops. Kudos to The High Strung for having the bollocks to produce the album, but that’s all the kudos I can give. |
| Venom & Tears Throwdown Throwdown fans say good bye to the sweet days of hardcore and hello to the days of HEAVY FUCKING METAL. Oh I can’t say enough good things about this album. You hear all the greats such as Pantera and Slayer rolled in to the gritty goodness of all that is Throwdown. The fusing is seamless, the transition welcomed. I admit that I was on the edge of my seat waiting for what was to come from these OC guys and I was left shocked and excited to hear and see more. Venom & Tears is the way of the future. Follow it or be tramped under its rule. Holler. |
| Gallows "I’m not going to go off and then come back on, that’s a bit dramatic itnit?” Frank Carter asks the St. Petersburg crowd of Warped Tour from the Hurley Stage before his band’s Gallows set to play. There was nothing dramatic here, just straight a head old-school hardcore punk something that has been missing from Warped Tour since it’s initial conception. When ever a band can pull off a cover of Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown I listen, as did Gallows, the UK punk band at this year’s Warped Tour. Not only did these blokes do a cover of Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown, they instruct the all too timid crowd to start a circle pit around the sound booth. But what do you do when security guards on a power grab a kid for moshing? Well if your Frank Carter (vocalist of Gallows) and company you throw down everything and show the security who is boss. Carter had to get some aggression out one way or another considering that there was a no cursing rule of Vinoy Park and all the Florida dates of the Warped Tour. God forbid the youngens mosh at Warped Tour not to mention to a GOD DAMN BLACK FLAG SONG! I believe that I saw God and the Devil and they both have the same face, and that face belongs to Frank Carter! Anyone that can pull of Black Flag while channeling the soul of Johnny Rotten and Iggy Pop rolled all into one cannot be denied. If you only saw one band on Warped Tour this summer I hope to God that it was The Gallows. Punk Rock has been revived from its slumber and its name is Gallows. |
