By Kaleb Bronson

Pass the bottle of whiskey to the glee-filled devil and prepare for a deep-rooted, north country, good-time country album to rile-up any fan of hard-pounding Minnesotan raised, booze slamming music with the White Iron Band's newest album the "Devil's Sweet Revenge."

The thick blues-tones, outlaw-mindset and whiskey slaughtering attitude makes the White Iron Band step-up onto a new plateau of musical jamboree with this non-stop mix of internal lyrical confrontation tossed together with blissful battle with Beelzebub himself.

What started as a band that used Sesame Street as a bluesy background on their first album, has now evolved into a solid and vicious yet jubilant authoritarian group of Iron Range bandits making cuts through mini jam-sessions intertwined throughout the potent taste of "Devil's Sweet Revenge."

One line from the album wraps up the ever-so unflawed 13-track mental state, by saying, "I'm whiskey drunk and bullet proof, I don't need you anymore, and if you don't like what I am saying, go and throw me out the door," front-man Matt Pudas bellows within the track, "Whiskey Drunk and Bullet Proof." Each track has a different liquor after-taste, ranging from the sour mash of "Dead and Gone" to the sinful burn of a 100-proof Sailor Jerry life with-in "Devil's Gonna Win."

The White Iron Band uses the forces of the dark-side to make a boot-stomping, Harley-ridin', album of pure musical dominance. This mixture of men from Ely, Minn. have outdone themselves with the "Devil's Sweet Revenge," which is the embodiment of Minnesota's back-roads, bad boys and a shot-gun blast of sodden bliss to the soul of Minnesota's country/bluegrass scene.

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