Release
date: October 2nd
2017. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD
Screen
– Tracklisting
1.Screen
2.New Day
3.Dinosaur
4.I Didn't Kill
Myself
5.Getting in the Way
6.Coyote
7.Choke the Falcon
8.Clinical
Perfection
9.Gunslinger
Members
Enver Koneya:
Guitar/Vocals
Travis Williams:
Bass
Braden McGaw: Drums
Robot : Horrible
crying
Review
Disastroid new album -
Screen - may sound like a very straight forward affair from your
first listen to the album. Though the album is very deceptive as the
band takes a Melvins-esque approach to their music. With heavy slabs
of Sludge Rock merged with Noise, Grunge and some vicious sounding
Doom/Stoner sounds.
The opening track -
Screen - starts off rather quietly before the band adapts a familiar
Melvins style approach with the song. As it fully explodes into a
violent Noise/Sludge/Grunge Rock style musical orgy with addictive
elements of psychedelic rock appearing towards the end of the
song.
The next song on the
list is - New Day - which takes a more punk based route with the
heavy sludge/stoner grooves being added at the later stages of the
song. The song becomes more eerily psychedelic as the bass heavy
guitar sounds draw you further into Disastroid's clutches and it's
very hard to escape from.
Third song - Dinosaur -
opens with a mighty thunderous grunge/sludge/style roar. The drumming
and guitars have a heavy stop-start approach with the vocals adopting
a more soulful take compared to other songs on the album. One of the
main strengths of the album is how Distatroid move from the different
sounds they have at their disposal and still sound remarkably fresh.
The album stays vibrant and fun throughout.
With songs such as
Getting In The Way, Coyote, Choke The Falcon and Gunslinger offering
the listener an exciting and devilish ride into the darker side of
Grunge/Stoner/Noise rock. The production is superb with Screen
staying loud, boisterous and heavy right until the very end. The band
may suffer from an identity crisis at times with the amount of
different sounds and genres held on the album. Though it works to the
bands advantage. As most of the songs have a different feel to each
other.
The lyrics maybe too
simple at times but for what Disastroid are trying to accomplish
here, Screen doesn't suffer at all. As Screen is an exciting and
rebellious album that has a lot to offer to the more adventurous
Grunge/Sludge/Stoner Rock fan.
Words
by Steve Howe
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