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Colonel Blast



Last Updated: 12/13/2009

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Status: Single
City: Northwich
State: Northwest
Country: UK
Signup Date: 2/7/2009

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February 20, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  adored
Our first review of the demo tracks up here on the Myspak...

Rising from the ashes of Onsetcold come Colonel Blast, who on first listen appear to be a very scary band. They don’t scare with death metal theatrics, or hardcore-er than thou beat-down posturing—they scare with their sound, which falls somewhere between blood machinery coughing up rust and a chalkboard nail scratching contest. Whatever you call it, it hits hard and cuts quick. Vocalist Matt basically sounds like hell coming out of a man’s mouth, a sound that is truly horrific, brutal and unforgiving. The new Colonel Blast is everything a great underground band should be: they shred, they're mellow at times, they're intelligent, they're angry, they're emotionally engaging, and they have a polished yet raw intensity to them. At time's they sound surprisingly delicate, with almost spacey interludes of quiet reflection, only to completely change course a moment later and produce a beastly noise horror spawned by some kind of schizophrenic algebra.

Given that they are a new band, they have been completely successful in delivering a great array of extremely heavy music in a short space of time. At the end of listening to their two tracks on myspace I was left feeling as if I'd just ran a marathon over hot coals, let out a relieved "whew!" and tried to figure out just what the fuck it was that hit me across the face. If this is a sign of what Colonel Blast is to become, then they are unquestionably a band to keep an eye on from here on out.

8/10

Lisa UKMU

Thank you Lisa, we'll give you that money we owe you later...
6:51 PM
 
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