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Hail!Hornet - Hail!Hornet
(Dwell Records)
PL Rating 
Date posted 22 March 2008
How the fuck did I miss this release. Hail!Hornet was released in the summer of 2007, but it didn’t hit my radar until early March, when I browsed on to their Myspace page. Hail!Hornet call their sound Grime-Metal which is a pretty accurate description of this Southern ’Supergroup’ consisting of T. Roy, Dixie Dave, Vince Burke and Eric Larson. If a mongrel could ever have a pedigree then these guys have got one of the best, having played with Alabama Thunderpussy, Weedeater, Sourvein, Buzzhov*en, Bongzilla and Beaten Back To Pure. These underground luminaries have drifted together like some sentient slime-mould to produce an awesome slice of grime encrusted Sludge, that has just gotta be one of the best releases of 2007.
Picking out tracks for the spotlight is very difficult as the whole album is filled with lots of sludgy goodness. Tracks that particularly made my pants moist were the swifter thrashy ’Foxy Fuck – No Solution’ which was one of the shorter tracks weighing in at just over two and a half minutes; the sluggish, atmospheric grind of ’He Who Walks Behind The Rose Bros’ with its hoarse, guttural spoken (sic) word; the merrily chugging riffs of the albums opener ’Believe in Black’ and the nine and a half minute behemoth ’Swarm of Malice’. The remaining tracks are all just as good and this has got to be one of the most consistently cool albums I have listened to in a long time.
Forget the finger twiddling nonsense that some metal bands dish up as heavy…. these guys give real definition to the term ’heavy’ and assault the senses with some awesomely sludgy riffs that drift between cumbersome, monolithic ditties and faster thrashy grooves with ease. Shit! Don’t take my word for it, just check ’em out. Now!
2:14 PM
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