Tattoo of Pain

Vengeance Is Mine (Antler/Subway)
by Chris Best

Great band, lousy name. Industrial that borrows from old NYC hardcore bands rather than bad metal, they prefer to leave the ambiguities alone and concentrate on writing songs. Neither the themes nor the music sound too original, but I don’t think that’s the point. If you like songs about revenge, anger, injustice, what the US Constitution really stands for, and fist-pounding tunes that make you want to rock until there’s no more rock left to rock, and all you’re left with are piles of sand and pebbles and pine cones that open up, spilling their seeds to the earth like a middle-aged man spewing in a peep-show booth to Mama’s Panty Boy while living the good life with Robin Leach and Adnan Kashoggi in a cheap motel outside Roanoke, Virginia attached to a Denny’s, well, this is the album for you.