Lambs

(Devil Doll)
by Scott Hefflon

Metallic punk from Finland. Evidently you can get away with using both “metal” and “punk” when describing dark, grimy, Finnish punk bands and not get lynched (or sound like you’re from the sticks and just don’t realize that while both may have attitude and anger, each has cultural as well as sonic characteristics that, basically, make it completely impossible for them to ever meet, got it?). So they’re punk in that howling Misfits way, yet they have Entombed-style production to their chug (meaning it sounds tuned-low and somehow like a garbage truck). Ugly, noisy, kinda cool, but nothing to write home about.
(PO Box 30727 Long Beach, CA 90853)