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IMPIETY - "Dominator"
I don’t know about you, but it’s always pissed me off that MEATLOAF’s “Bat Out of Hell” album sounded nothing like the album art. I mean, here we got this freakin’ amazing Richard Corben painting of a muscular long-haired Adonis biker rocketing out of the confines of Hell aboard his skull-faced, quadruple exhausted hog from Hades, and inside we get. . . “Paradise by the Dashboard Light?” Not to be knocking the Meatster (ok, maybe a little) but Jim Steinman’s quasi-operatic bombasts about love and teenage angst hardly warrant a cover that vicious. I mean, how much of a fucking disconnect can you have?
But don’t worry, I’ve found the real album for which the aforementioned cover was drawn. Blasting out of their own version of an acid-drenched Hell, SPACE PROBE TAURUS is a full-on assault of methed up, fuzzed out, biker garage rock, brimming with enough muscle and energy to be deemed worthy of Corben’s masterpiece. From the first pounding drumbeat, the SPT boys ask one simple question, how much fucking fuzz can you take in your rock? Coming at you like some ungodly mix of STOOGES energy, MC5 attitude, MUDHONEY riffs and enough fuzz pedals to fill a fucking fleet of 18 wheelers, this is STEPPENWOLF for the new millennium, maxed out, fuzzed out garage rock for the open highways.
Quality songs like “Dig the Lizard,” “Molten Lava,” and “Psi-burn,” come at you like some freakishly distorted FU MANCHU/BLUE CHEER hybrid, having ditched the FU boys skateboards and surfer vans for quadruple exhausted hogs from the river Styx. Heavily influenced by the heavy psych scene as it evolved into proto-metal, this is biker rock on acid, Harley riders from Hell. Meaty and muscular, methed and maxed rock and roll.
While the boys experiment with dynamics, this is essentially a full throttle blast of garage/stoner fuzz. That means that at times, the songs get a bit repetitive, but they never lose their bite. Give this beast a ride and flip MEATLOAF off on the ride.
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