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DESCRIPTION:
Two bands, both from Portland, each band playing their own quirky brand
of DIY thrash that ranges from the Yngwie-meets-Power-Violence shred
thrash of Slam Dunk (With Authority!) to the burly instrumental thrash
of Order Of The Gash.
Slam Dunk (With Authority!) are much heavier and raging than you might
think, given their goofball band name and dumb song titles (like "Butt
Blaster", for instance). Nah, their side is actually pretty fucking
great, four songs of quirky, crusty hardcore thrash loaded with
intricate fretboard tapping that actually made me a little dizzy on the
aforementioned "Butt Blaster" (I want to throttle these guys every time
I type that...), burly thrash riffage and chaotic blastbeat tempos,
high pitched shrieking vocals, the band bouncing back and forth between
brutal midpaced riffage and the superfast shred/blast stuff, woven into
complex arrangements with the speeds constantly shifting. Imagine
Yngwie Malmsteen stoned out of his mind and roped into playing with a
West Coast powerviolence band, that's the vision that keeps popping
into my head while listening to the crazy finger-tapping and shredding
mixed in with the brutal blasting hardcore and punky thrash metal.
Awesome.
I've heard that the coed trio Order Of The Gash are a fun band to see
live whenever they play in Portland. Apparently, the band soaks
themselves in fake blood before they hit the stage, and then proceed to
batter the crowd with their compact sets of instrumental speed math
metal. Sounds great! The vocal-free approach for the six songs on their
side of the LP damn well rips, and there is a subtle proggy
undercurrent to Order Of The Gash's superfast thrash jams, as the songs
go from fast-paced serpentine speedmetal to calmer sections of
atmospheric math-rock riffing with the guitars shifting between clean
chiming tones and crushing metallic distortion, often layering the
guitars into intricate arrangements and haunting melodic parts. These
cats sound like how I imagine the early Champs stuff might have turned
out if they had been worshipping Haunting The Chapel and early Norwegian black metal instead of Puppets-era
Metallica when they first started out; recommended to any of you guys
that are fans of fierce thrashy instrumental metal like Champs,
Suzukiton, Hematovore, and Le Force !
Packaged in a silkscreened
black sleeve printed with gold ink, and comes with a double sided
insert sheet and a CD version of the split in its own black and white
cardstock wallet, limited to 300 copies.
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