Willie "Andice"
Taylor
February 10, 1994 - October
19, 2008.
He will be sorely missed by
all of his friends.
God bless his soul.
The debut album
of American Scum Scunge had
it's significence. As the
title suggested, the five
bucks banknote with Abraham
Lincoln's face on it was worth
to the band as much as dog's
shit, captured on the cover.
This time (the phrase I used
here can't be translated into
English without loosing it's
sense) we got only a mini
called 'Just a Taste...',
which happily doesn't have
anything in common with dog's
excrements.
In the case
of music, Scum Scunge is still
loyal to the direction taken
on 'Five Bucks Ain't Shit'
- it's still simple, sometimes
a little bit clumsy thrashcore,
based on ubiquitous groove
andexceptionally 'Yankee'
(it's also a phrase we use
in Polish to give readers
kind of sample) vocals of
Donovana Clevelanda. The music's
organised within mid tempos,
without any spontanous speed
breakdowns, what gives you
the feeling of little bit
monotonous and uniformity.
Sometimes it lacks of fire
and tar, but all in all Scum
Scunge crushes - more or less
- about half of American metalcore
bands, concentrated on kangooroo-like
jumping, trousers ending on
knees, tatoos and social-political
subjects. On 'Just a Taste...'
you can clearly hear, that
the band grew up from the
metal scene, and core-ish
groove, including the fascination
with Pantera and Damageplan,
is rather an addition to the
musical horizon. You can say,
that those guys are pretty
modern, but they don't try
to force that kind of music.
And it's their biggest advantage,
'cause you can easily get
through their second CD and
some guitar riffs, like the
one in the middle of 'Crack
Your Knuckles', prooves that
they have something more to
say. The CD is completed with
some southernrock acoustic
sounds in 'Complicated' and
reminiscents of the debut
in 'Abuse', enriched with
Dimebaga Darrell's solo. It's
a pity, that the track released
before on the first album,
is the best moment of that
record. Yeah, I can say that
guys started to combine to
much.
I'd like to
hear Scum Scunge coming back
to the style known from 'Five
Bucks Ain't Shit'. That CD
had energy, spontanous vibe
and some truth hidden under
the surface (and Dimebag's
solos of course) and 'Just
a Taste...' lacks of that
elements, however it still
deals with the same genre.
I was counting on something
more, but nonetheless it's
still quite nice mini-CD...
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SCUM SCUNGE IS BACK IN
THE STUDIO
WORKING ON THE LATEST CD AFTER
"FIVE BUCKS AIN'T SHIT"
AND
"JUST A TASTE"
