Keeping it short, ear to the ground, logical, almost compact and punky, within the golden-handcuffed confines of the tin-foil-on-a-filling Pantera screech.
Part streetpunk, part gutsy rock’n’roll. Engineered by Kevin Army, produced by Billy Joe Armstrong: Guts’n’glory that ain’t all scrubbed clean of the burrs.
Boogie blues rooted in the country blues of the South/mid-South. If they can get to the tunes, they could pop out a “Brothers and Sisters” for this millennium.
In The Beginning is a reissue of the band’s pre-debut recordings, gathering two batches, Festivals Of Atonement from ’95 and Ramses Bringer Of War from ’97.
While only a few of the songs have breakdowns or production tricks added, just hearing a good song played well, a lot faster than usual, is pretty cool.
While the novelty of this novelty act has kinda worn off and How to Meet Girls is often just more of the same, it sometimes stumbles across pure genius.