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░ ██ ██ Artist: Superchrist ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Holy Shit █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2012 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-10-10 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Heavy Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Hells Headbangers Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ This is not my first encounter with Superchrist, a █
█ long standing US party metal outfit who have been █
█ touring and releasing albums since the late 90s, █
█ once through a local imprint here in the Boston █
█ area. They've got a simplistic formula to their █
█ heavy metal which draws upon influences heavily █
█ from hard rock and metallic punk, especially the █
█ 'dirtier' side of NWOBHM like Mot÷rhead, Warfare, █
█ Saxon and Tank. But don't let the admittedly █
█ lighthearted nature of the band fool you into █
█ thinking they're mere lazy derivatives, because █
█ the Chicago mobsters have great tone and classic █
█ songwriting skills that should continue to please █
█ their installed fan base and perhaps even win over █
█ the new, young audience into such throwback sounds █
█ as those conjured by bands like Midnight, █
█ Speedwolf or Abigail. █
█ Granted, Superchrist eschew the blackened, wilder █
█ vocals for something more along the lines of an █
█ Algy Ward or Lemmy Kilminster. Dirty and █
█ full-figured but quite clear, and it's a good fit █
█ for the dense, ruddy cheeked tone of the guitar. █
█ Drums shift between a standard hard rock clip as █
█ on the opener "Take Me to the Graveyard" to █
█ something decidedly more angry and punk like "Get █
█ Lost" or "Run to the Night", and the same could be █
█ said for the actual composition. As you'd expect, █
█ complexity is not a part of this band's █
█ vocabulary, the songs are written with at most 2-3 █
█ riffs in mind, bluesy and brief flights of lead █
█ work and a lot of genuine energy that transfers █
█ directly to their stage performances. In this █
█ regard, Holy Shit is not a whole lot different █
█ than Defenders of the Filth or any of their past █
█ full-lengths, though I think I preferred the █
█ production here for its fluid abuse, and the █
█ songs, while a bit restrained, seem substantially █
█ stronger in their ability to teleport the listener █
█ back to the formative, simpler times that inspired █
█ them. █
█ To be blunt: Superchrist is way retro, but they've █
█ been doing it far longer than most of today's █
█ upstarts, and there's a certain confidence and █
█ experience that comes with the delivery of this █
█ album, not to mention the writing. It would be █
█ almost impossible for a band writing in this niche █
█ to NOT come off to some degree derivative of the █
█ many classic metal, hard rock and punk acts that █
█ predated them, and Holy Shit is no exception. But █
█ like the similar Midwest throwback artist █
█ Midnight, they bring this tangible viridity to the █
█ music that comes across entirely genuine, and as █
█ the band want nothing more than to have a good █
█ time, sharing some music and beers with the █
█ audience, I'd say this is working very much as █
█ intended, especially on the groovier tunes like █
█ "Burn Again" with its old school Metallica spin or █
█ "PAMF" which might have just as well been written █
█ for Orgasmatron. It might not be anything █
█ remarkable, but it doesn't need to be. Rock on, █
█ Windy City soldiers. █
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░ 1. Run to the Night 3:11 ░
░ 2. Take me to the Graveyard 3:07 ░
░ 3. Hot Tonight 2:20 ░
░ 4. Get Lost 2:27 ░
░ 5. Burn Again 2:38 ░
░ 6. Black Thunder 3:46 ░
░ 7. PAMF 1:04 ░
░ 8. Don't Wanna Know 3:07 ░
░ 9. Sewer Snake 4:30 ░
░ 10. Beer Metal 3:41 ░
░ 29:51 ░
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