i'll never get why people like these dudes. or like the kid downstairs is playing along. keyboards sound like they're just shoved in there. New sigh: sounds like they're trying to do imaginary sonicscape again but the production doesn't work as well. A shame they seem like cool people (who, yeah, probably didn't really belong here in the first place, but once I bring them up I gotta achieve closure somehow. Really wanted to like them (they seem to have a healthy respect for beer, for one thing), but Lauran O'Neal's vocals are always in the same shouty mode, every song, and the guitars and drums never quite kick in. Opening of track #3 actually kind of reminds me of the Stooges' "We Will Fall" (an art-dirge which, okay, I've always sort of thought was bullshit, but the similarity here doesn't bug me.)Īlso, fwiw, haters of non-metal will be thrilled to hear I got burned out on that college-not-quite-hard-rock album by that co-ed Boston band Cheater Pint I was hyping yesterday. Track #6, especially, is this insane psych thing that starts out with a killer swinging riff and eventually there's this weird talkover part. So, who Decibel (Kory Grow to be precise) actually did compare Zoroaster to was Saint Vitus and "everything Wino." And yeah, I can hear that, though (as Kory also acknowledges) they seem to go way beyond that too. Because they - whoever "they" are - ultimately never sound like old Motorhead.) (Probably people are comparing them to Motorhead after I stopped paying atttention to Motorhead, or something. Also, I realized this morning that I don't understand when new metal bands get compared to Motorhead anymore. Best titles: "Self-Medication," "Three Sizes Too Small," "Visiting Hours (at the Federal Penitentiary)." Also they assure me that my drinking days are not over yet (whew!) and end with a fun hidden electronica track.īack in metal land, I don't get the Sodom or Dodsferd albums (something to do with the singers, probably), but the second track on the Zoroaster album sounds kind of okay after all.
So okay, it was probably wrong to bring them up on this thread, I admit.
The band also continues to tour live in North America and Europe for the last decade covering 15 countries. As the band's sound has progressed over the last 10+ years, a more traditional song writing approach was slowly realized by incorporating the band's signature "boxriff technique" with the Kosnik–Ryan dual vocal harmonies throughout their last three releases "TAB3, Boxriff and TAB4". The band's first two albums, I and II, had a heavy psychedelic sound with roughly half of their songs containing only minimal vocals and the rest were instrumental. The Atomic Bitchwax are a rock band formed in a basement during the mid 1990s by then 25 year olds Chris Kosnik and Ed Mundell from Long Branch, New Jersey.