Yep, I like it. If you're a fan of old thrashy goodness you might like this slightly new twist on the genre. Imagine D.R.I. with Ian MacKaye instead of Kurt Brecht. Or maybe they mate and produce offspring that sound like BFI. Seems like a good idea? It is! Now that you've seen inside the nutshell, let's expand on that a bit. If thrash is the crossover between metal and punk rock, then BFI lean a little bit more towards the punk rock in terms of vocals and lyrics, but more towards the metal genre in instrumentation and song orchestration. Visually, I imagine this to resemble one of those Zig-Zag Tetris pieces that sometimes fit precisely where you need them.
This demo is a calculated attempt to carve a little niche inside a deep recess in your brain and create a little black spot that will fester and grow into a penis. Now that you have a Braincock, you can go and mind fuck other humans! See? I told you this was a good idea! A few things about the drum tone kind of bug me on the CD and I'm sure BFI themselves will be the first to admit that the snare drum is a little weirdly hollow-sounding while the kick sounds pretty awesome. It's a sort of a lopsided drum sound that I'm sure they'll fix on their first studio album. The bass was a little low in the mix, pun not intended. You can really hear it in Eat Your Hand but it stands out the most in King Shit In Colliflour, when you get a quiet little bass solo-fill right next to a much louder guitar solo-fill. The guitar sounds awesome though; speedy palm muted passages and rich pinch harmonics every now and again for spice. I hope they don't add another guitarist to their live line up because the Audio Distortion show I got this CD at was pretty deadly. They sounded like really dirty Lemon-Scented Pledge, or perhaps midget porn sped up to light speed and pitch shifted into drop tuning. It's hard to say which ridiculous analogy sums up their parts in a live setting, but it's better than this demo CD which is pretty great in and of itself. If you're a Metal Head, you owe it to yourself to check this band out.
I really want to hear what some of these songs will sound like (especially King Shit in Colliflour) re-mixed or even re-tracked, which as I understand it, is the BFI master plan. They've given us a taste and I hope they will soon deliver the full case of meat. Watch out for a new release and I'll see if I can track down a copy for review. When it happens, I can do a comparative study for you, gentle reader.
This demo is a calculated attempt to carve a little niche inside a deep recess in your brain and create a little black spot that will fester and grow into a penis. Now that you have a Braincock, you can go and mind fuck other humans! See? I told you this was a good idea! A few things about the drum tone kind of bug me on the CD and I'm sure BFI themselves will be the first to admit that the snare drum is a little weirdly hollow-sounding while the kick sounds pretty awesome. It's a sort of a lopsided drum sound that I'm sure they'll fix on their first studio album. The bass was a little low in the mix, pun not intended. You can really hear it in Eat Your Hand but it stands out the most in King Shit In Colliflour, when you get a quiet little bass solo-fill right next to a much louder guitar solo-fill. The guitar sounds awesome though; speedy palm muted passages and rich pinch harmonics every now and again for spice. I hope they don't add another guitarist to their live line up because the Audio Distortion show I got this CD at was pretty deadly. They sounded like really dirty Lemon-Scented Pledge, or perhaps midget porn sped up to light speed and pitch shifted into drop tuning. It's hard to say which ridiculous analogy sums up their parts in a live setting, but it's better than this demo CD which is pretty great in and of itself. If you're a Metal Head, you owe it to yourself to check this band out.
I really want to hear what some of these songs will sound like (especially King Shit in Colliflour) re-mixed or even re-tracked, which as I understand it, is the BFI master plan. They've given us a taste and I hope they will soon deliver the full case of meat. Watch out for a new release and I'll see if I can track down a copy for review. When it happens, I can do a comparative study for you, gentle reader.
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