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 Short Sharp Shock is an altogether
incredible album from an altogether incredible band.
It’s a riff-a-minute rock fest with seriously deep hooks specifically
engineered to get heads banging and moshpits descending into anarchy,
and we absolutely love it.
A first rate ode to the old school, S.S.S channel the best bits of early
Metallica, the power and fury of Slayer and the intensity of hardcore
punk into a rabid musical rebellion against all that is boring.
The album opens with the aptly titled ‘Quiet Before The Storm’, it’s
spiralling lead crashing into a cyclone of cymbals and screeching on the
back of a threatening, dirty riff before heading down a dark road of
rage, unrelenting in their aggression throughout.
The likes of the furiously fantastic ‘New Dogs’, with it’s chugging
guitars, snarling drums and Slayer like solos and the whirlwind of
shotgun riffs, possessed screaming and ravaging bass lines that is
‘Monster’ are chocked full of energy, power, speed and chaos.
It’s like the sound of an army of punks heading to war against a metal
militia where the casualties are numerous and the noises terrifying.
It’s like Kerry King and the late Cliff Burton knocking each other
senseless, it’s like the sound of hell and earth colliding.
Yet for all the violence and vitriol that such a description suggests,
it has to be said that this is, above all, great music that really goes
out of it’s way to get the blood pumping and prepare you for anything.
The music scene has needed a band like S.S.S for far too long, thank god
they’re finally here.
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www.myspace.com/shortsharpshock
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