Billy Crystal Meth - Meth Metal [Mortville Rec / Hear More Rec - 2008]Concerning the name and the hand drawn cover, I was expecting some silly grindcore band. But it's nothing really that terrible, just an instrumental thrash-metal band from Iowa. Of course the problem with instrumental metal is that without a vocalist you might as well be listening to surf rock. You kind of hope for a jazz riff or something different to break the monotony. Well I can say the band is good and crunchy, although I think their ideal environment would be live in a dingy dive or a barnhouse, or whatever places they have hardcore punk or metal gigs these days. It's mostly fodder for the kids to mosh to, in other words, so a studio recording doesn't make much sense except maybe for demo purposes... Filling out much of this CD is some rather boring dialogue about apocalyptic themes; where exactly they got it from I wouldn't know. It just distracts from the music in an annoying way. However one good thing about this record is the final track "Frostillicius", which is nothing but an elongated feedback-drone, which sure beats the rest of the record... In short, this is generic thrash. I can't see anybody wanting this except for mosh practice.    Lawrence J. Patti
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