DIE BY DESIGN
Now It Starts to Make Sense
(Mother Should Know)

THIS WILL DESTROY YOU
S/T
(Magic Bullet)

EGYPT
S/T
(Lyderhorn)

BROWN JENKINS
Angel Eyes
(Moribund)

DUB TRIO
Another Sound is Dying
(Ipecac)

HATE ETERNAL
Fury & Flames 

(Metal Blade)

BITCHSLICER
III Lycathropic Fellatio

(Worldeater)

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What with all these dozens of post-rockers and instrumental bands shitting albums like they have the runs, it is quite refreshing to hear an actual instrumental rock record that stands outside those boxes. Thinking about it, this Brooklyn trio has revived in me certain passion for simply rocking out, instead of taking twenty-five minutes to present a surging guitar riff (like in the post rock camp) or showing off shredding brutality to pointless angular technicality (like is the case of many of the instrumental metal bands). That’s not to say that Dub Trio does not experiment. Just think about their moniker, they don’t say ‘dub’ for no reason.

So the songs here, outside the guitars and the massive drumming have all the necessary ‘dub’ requirements to serve as the background to a very modern sounding King Tubby release. Even bits of post-rock are found throughout (the escalation of “Felicitacion”), but the songs are kept short which makes Another Sound is Dying go down like juice after a morning jog.

Formed by guitarist DP Holmes (has recorded by Mos Def and Common), bassist Stu Brooks (worked with 50 Cent, Tupac Shakur, Macy Gray and others) and drummer Joe Tomino who has toured with The Fugees, Dub Trio rock hard as a modern heavy metal band. The band is certainly adding several elements of that genre along with respectable doses of punk and alternative rock. The dub is a constant though, which gives the album a fresher feeling of otherworldliness. Without that touch, many of the songs contained in this their third full-length - not including a live release - album would be quite standard rock tunes with nothing spectacular about them. Especially the first half of the album, which is very hard rock guitar oriented. The latter half is much stronger and more fun. “Mortar Dub” is a genuine genre piece and in “No Flag” label boss Mike Patton lends his whispers and ultimately total vocal chords. A change of pace like the inclusion of vocals is always welcome, especially in an album that like Another Sound is Dying it is all about keeping several genres alive and living intermingled.

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