Oozing Wound – Retrash (Thrill Jockey)
LP/CD/DL
LP/CD/DL
Out Now
Chicago based thrash metal trio, Oozing Wound,
release their debut mini album and I have to admit that thrash isn’t my thing,
but, to validate my ‘everything deserves one listen’ claim, I thought I’d give
this a go. To be honest, I was
pleasantly surprised and I suspect that my fourteen year old Son may well be
pretty impressed too, but, I
don’t think my Dad would be as approving.
So, what do we have here? Well, as the PR blurb says, it’s ‘not one for
headphones or your laptop’ so I played loud, in the car on the way to work
yesterday. What we have is seven tracks
of pure noise, big noise and to quote guitarist and vocalist Zack Weil – “loud
fucking guitars and screaming shit”.
It’s a pretty good summary and this ‘Retrash’ review could well end
there.
By their own admittance, they don’t write
melodies and don’t do big choruses either.
What they do do is loud, angry noise with more balls than a sex-starved
angry Bull and lines which can be either humorous, or, intentionally offensive to
the Biblical Joseph on ‘Welcome To The Spaceship, Motherfucker’.
You really should guess what you’re in for with
opener ‘Everyone I Hate Should Be Killed’ which is a huge chunk of
thrash/grunge which will certainly wake you first thing in the morning as yesterday’s
car journey can testify. Not an album
for the light-hearted, and, certainly not one for folks who aren’t open to
persuasion.
Is Retrash a classic? No, it isn’t, and, the band probably don’t
really give an airborne intercourse. Is
the album made with power, aggression and feeling? You better believe it.
7.5/10
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Published on Louder Than War 18/10/13 - here
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