Why does there always seem to be an inverse relationship between
\nthe length of an album and its title?<\/p>\n
In the case of the hard rock act The Kill,
\nSuperdragsmackheadpsychoplasticgogopunk<\/i> (brother, if you
\nthink I’m typing this one a lot, you’re crazy) clocks in at barely
\nover a half-hour, which is hardly enough time to fairly build an
\nopinion of any band. What you can figure out over the course of
\nthese nine songs is this is a band trying to become the Guns N’
\nRoses for the ’90s, even if the songs don’t have as much bite as
\nthe ’80s bad boys.<\/p>\n
Comprised of vocalist Jas, guitarist Jason Jameson, bassist
\nSammy Allen and drummer Tim DiDuro, one would think from the name
\nof the album that The Kill would incorporate a lot of different
\nstyles into their music. If only this were the case; what they do
\ncrank out are standard (though good) hard rock numbers
\n(surprisingly without a lot of flashy guitar work) that often touch
\non the genre’s favorite subjects: sex and drugs.<\/p>\n
Now, before you get completely judgmental, the songs that touch
\non drugs show the dark side they have (“Ultraphobic, paranoia \/ I’m
\nyour daily dosage, I’m your dark destroyer” on “Renaissance Man #6
\n(Deluxe)”, “You bleed, you speed, your speed kills” on “Quicker
\nThan Dead”). If Jas’s vocals were brought up a little more in the
\nmix, these kind of songs could do more for the anti-drug campaigns
\nthan any “Just Say No” wimpiness.<\/p>\n
As for the sex, The Kill likes it hot, sweaty, and full of more
\nkinks than any magazine Larry Flynt could come up with. Take “All
\nTied Up,” which out-guns Guns N’ Roses for sheer shock value: “Baby
\nI’m an 8-ball I could fuck a brick wall \/ And I could really break
\nyou but you’re all fucked up.” You really should give the lyric
\nsheet a read just to comprehend the whole thing – they cram more
\ninto this song than I’ve seen on a hardcore movie on HBO. As for
\n“Gina’s Penis,” well… urk… the song says it all. ‘Nuff
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Where The Kill go wrong are in three areas. First, the length of
\nthe disc (as we hinted at in the beginning of the review); 30
\nminutes is not enough for me to fairly gauge a band’s strengths and
\nweaknesses. Second, it would be nice to hear Jas higher in the mix
\nand to hear Jameson actually go wild on some guitar solos. Finally,
\nhow’s about cutting out some of the cock-rock? It’s not cool when
\nAerosmith does it, it’s not cool when The Kill beat it into the
\nground.<\/p>\n
Where The Kill could really have something is in songs like
\n“Sister Skeleton,” a song about a broken woman who still seems to
\nfind a way of escaping her own personal hell. The musical side of
\nthis needed a little more development (I heard some chords that I
\ncouldn’t resolve in my head, but otherwise not bad), but The Kill
\ncan really paint strong pictures of the downtrodden in society. I’d
\nrather hear a song about that than, aah, a well-hung woman.<\/p>\n
The Kill are still very much in the youth of their career, and I
\nthink once they find their focus, they’ll be a serious force to
\ndeal with in the rising world of hard rock. But this CD, with all
\nits strengths, shows they still need to do their homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7484],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-39178","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-kill","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39178"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39178"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}