Southern Death Threat - Southern Death Threat (2007)

This could be balls to the fucking wall awesome metal if they would get rid of the melodic slow songs.
Rap-core style start-stop crunching riffs with thundering double-bass drums and growling vocals.
It's just a bummer this is their only release.


Tracks:
1) Screwface – Pantera+Korn+BlackLabel Society = Awesome!

2) Hit The Floor – Starts slow & heavy then faster and then Pantera/Korn/5FDP.
3) Rusty – Total let down.  It’s the nice radio friendly song.
4) Wanted Sevenfold – Heavy & fierce metal.
5) Beyond Forever – Starts out melodic and lame but gets heavier.
6) Hard Time In Texas – Angry, thundering metal.
7) Old Summit Lake Road – Starts out melodic and lame but it gets angry pissed.
8) Frontlines – YES!! HEAD BANGIN’ FUCKING METAL!!! w/ Screaming!!
9) Black Jack – More head bangin’ metal!!
10) F-Bomb (Instermental) – Needs some screaming vocals.
11) Beyond Forever (Acoustic) – suck.
12) Rusty (Long Version) – 22 more seconds of suck.

This album (aside from the sucky tracks) should be played at FULL BLAST!!

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Whores of Tijuana - Whores of Tijuana(2005)

I have a love hate relationship with the Whores.  The music is great.  Most of the songs have fat chugging riffs that I love and the song composition is spot on.  But and this is purely for constructive criticism, the drums are a bit what’s the word I’m looking for…basic.   The drummer does a fantastic job of keeping the beat but it sounds like 5 minutes before they went into the studio they used a stand-in drummer.
These guys HAD great potential considering this is their only album  and was released in 2005.

Despite what I think are production issue I still think this an album worth hunting down.

last.fm/music/Whores+of+Tijuana

Lo-Pan - Sasquanaut (2009)

You know that sound you've been lookin' for?  Well here it is in the form of Lo-Pan.  It's got some fat heavy riffs with a driving beat and the singer has a distinctive voice.
People (and I mean whiny little bitches) have compared Lo-Pan to Boston’s Only Living Witness and they are just copying OLW style.   Whatever.
Their style is Black Sabbath(ish), Nebula  but more aggressive.




Tracks:
1) Dragline – When the guitars kick in it makes me want to rock out some Ted Nugent style air guitar.
2) Savage Henry – It has a slow start but when the guitars start-up that’s when the heaviness begins
3) Kurtz – Another amazing track.  Sick driving riff-edge.
4) Callahan – More good stuff.
5) Kramer – Slow Heavy & Grinding
6) Vega – More heaviness with a level of complexity.
7) Vego – Haunting opening riff.  Slow and melodic but then at 2:30 they unleash the fury.
8) Wade Garrett – Big fuzzy crunch with tight drums that turns into a creeping riff so low it sounds like the bass guitar.


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