ASS POUNDER
Can't be bothered much for factual recounting, so I'm keeping it brief. -- came back from AZ and laid low for a while. Chilling and playing chess. Lauren came and visited for a week, left yesterday. V. V. V. Sad. We went to santa barbara for a day. Tonight I partied with Pam, and her friend Jana, who writes for the LAist.com, hooked me up with a CD by a band called "Ass Pounder" when she learned that I enjoyed the beast music. I listened to it on the way home. Since she reviews music I thought I'd throw in my $0.02.
Album Review: Ass Pounder (self titled demo)
Ass Pounder's 5-track demo release probes aching questions of extreme metal, such as: what happens if every melodic instrument played monophonically at the unison? What happens when you record a 5 piece black metal band on one microphone? The answer? ASS POUNDER. That's right. Despite the readily apparent lack of talent in musicianship and composition (think "rudimentary"), Ass Pounder lays down some classy *underground* black metal, employing classic Casio (tm) keyboard CHRCH ORGN + CHRS patches and screechy, screechy growling. These extreme metal stylings, however, evoke more of a "satanic vampyre-metal" sound, rather than what I can only surmise is the "ASS POUNDER" sound (song title: Skull-fucked with a Chainsaw"). Perhaps the band takes too many cues from the keyboardist, who seems to subscribe to the "just stick to the white keys" school of thought. Nonetheless, this band shows promise and will hopefully some day move from the living room recording studio to the stage. I appreciate any band that evokes nostalgia of Castlevania for 8-bit nintendo.
Conclusion: Promising name, but my ass remains pounding-free.
Rating: One and a half crushed skulls.
Album Review: Ass Pounder (self titled demo)
Ass Pounder's 5-track demo release probes aching questions of extreme metal, such as: what happens if every melodic instrument played monophonically at the unison? What happens when you record a 5 piece black metal band on one microphone? The answer? ASS POUNDER. That's right. Despite the readily apparent lack of talent in musicianship and composition (think "rudimentary"), Ass Pounder lays down some classy *underground* black metal, employing classic Casio (tm) keyboard CHRCH ORGN + CHRS patches and screechy, screechy growling. These extreme metal stylings, however, evoke more of a "satanic vampyre-metal" sound, rather than what I can only surmise is the "ASS POUNDER" sound (song title: Skull-fucked with a Chainsaw"). Perhaps the band takes too many cues from the keyboardist, who seems to subscribe to the "just stick to the white keys" school of thought. Nonetheless, this band shows promise and will hopefully some day move from the living room recording studio to the stage. I appreciate any band that evokes nostalgia of Castlevania for 8-bit nintendo.
Conclusion: Promising name, but my ass remains pounding-free.
Rating: One and a half crushed skulls.