Release
date: November 25th
2015. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD
Mucktub
– Tracklisting
1.Jonnie,
Jim & Jack 08:14
2.Moldy
Potato 06:27
3.Word
Vomit 07:50
4.Lascivious
Wode 08:21
Band
Members:
Hardwick
- Chief Spastic, Face-Noises & Fuzzy Guitar.
Balmer
- Rage, Violence & Skinz
Main
- Social anxiety, Convulsions & Fuzz Bass.
Review:
What
the FUCK IS THIS. A band called Spaztik Munkey and a band member with
duties such as Chief Spastic and Face Noises. Obviously these guys
don't mind in creating some controversy with their band name and
music. It's a good job as these guys have created an intense and
often surreal Sludge/Doom/Stoner Metal album with great humour to
match. Sure the humour is jet-black but at least guys stick to their
convictions of creating an unsettling slice of distorted violent
noise.
You
gotta hand it to them they've created some great riffs to lose
yourself in. Opening track – Jonnie, Jim & Jack – has a crazy
schizophrenic feel. Parts The Melvins, Weedeater and Church Of
Misery. It's a noisy and fucked up kind of sound that allows the band
to explore and create a song that soon gets under your skin and
infects you like a deadly disease. The riffs are played low and
down-tuned. This feels like a bad acid trip gone wrong.
Second
track Moldy Potato opens with a drug induced riff and a solitary
voice-over explaining the dangers of multiple personality disorders.
The music is played at a slow pace which may put some people off
especially with the dark lyrical content even if it verges more on
the Stoner side of life.
The
final two tracks – Word Vomit and Lascivious Wade sees the band add
elements of Crust with a more hateful outlook on life. Spaztik Munkey
don't fuck around on Word Vomit especially with the funny as hell
sound-clip that they use. Brian Blessed fans will get a kick out of
this one. Nope, it's not the legendary cry of “GORDON'S ALIVE”
from 80s camp sci-fi classic – Flash Gordon. But something I would
never expect hearing Brian Blessed saying something like that but it
exists. Kudos to the guys for find that clip. Oh right, back to the
review, yeah, the band offer two final tracks of distorted and pure
filthy Sludge/Stoner Metal riffs with enough power to kick your teeth
in...
If
you want something different to your usual slab of Sludge/Doom/Stoner
Metal and get with the program. Check these guys out now. Sure the
name will piss off a lot of people. These guys don't give a flying
fuck. They want to create heavy awesome music and that's what they've
succeeded with Mucktub.
Words
by Steve Howe
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