PLANETOID
Great Scott
Allston, Ma
February 7, 2008
SHOW OF THE MONTH
APRIL 2008 NE PERFORMER MAGAZINE
"Greetings, Earthlings. Prepare to meet your doom," says Planetoid singer/bassist "Locrius." Dressed in white suits painted green faces, near-glowing eyes, and horns upon their heads, it’s clear Planetoid is definitely one of a kind. A combination of fat riffs (ala Queens of The Stone Age,) Dinosaur Jr, and even some bluesy White Stripes swagger, guitarist "General Taleiah" and drummer, fittingly named "Admiral Time," (looking like Cylon from Battlestar Galactica with a white lab coat and machine-like mask,) overtook the sold-out crowd near the beginning of their set with a strong presence.
By the sixth song, "Russian Space Solution," head-banging minions had taken over the crowd. Throughout the show, Locrius, and General Taleiah spent most of the show stomping around in circles, taking breaks only to bend over backwards to the point where his head was nearing two inches from the floor. In between songs, he’d step up to the mic with a spooky 1000-yard stare into the audience.
For three dudes dressed as aliens in white suits, Planetoid are amazingly tight musicians with interesting riffs and catchy grunge-metal, completely with sludgy distortion and Big-Muff’d bass. Taleiah choked his guitar with an uncompromisingly gross octave distortion, but everything remained articulate and complex. Surprisingly, the alien gimmickry paid off. Staying in character and calling the audience "scum" while passionately playing up to their aforementioned identities, Planetoid is a must-see band. Catch em’ before their return to whatever stoner-rock planet they came from.
Review by Josh Thompson;