The Turbo A.C.’s

Damnation Overdrive (Blackout)
by Austin Nash

Maybe I’ve said this about a band before, and if I have, I take it back because the comment belongs here. The Turbo A.C.’s make me feel like driving down a strip, elbow out the window, shades on, smokes rolled in sleeve, hot bitch riding shotgun, doing 90 mph over a cliff in a ’63 Plymouth over and over and over and just being too goddamned bad to die.

Damnation Overdrive jumps right in with tough, simplistic plugging chords lacking grace and touch but making up for it with sheer brutality. Like a bulldozer wrecking an old barn without asking the cows to leave first. The highlight of this album is its no nonsense Dirty Harry attitude and lyrics: “Twist off, Pull Tab, Up and down/Hand full of Royal Crown/3 Carburetors & dual exhaust/One track mind so I never get lost/I got a casket painted sparkle flake/I’m not a vibrator baby, I’m an earthquake.”

Somehow I can’t help but imagine a single-tracked aggressiveness akin to that portrayed by Iron Maiden through their mascot “Eddie.” Eddie would have used this for theme music after he ate Steve Harris. Cool, huh?