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For
those that get tired quite quickly with all the building by the
hour post-rock and the lack of message and understanding from
instrumental rock, here we come with some pan fried Southern
solid stoner doom sludge (you can use either or all of these sub
genre names to describe Hail! Hornet’s material) rock from the
experienced hands of members of Beaten Back to Pure, Weedeater,
Sourvein and Alabama Thunderpussy. First thing that comes to
mind; for a stoner band Hail! Hornet sounds quite pissed; the
vocals of T Roy Medlin (Will to Mangle/Sourvein/Emeral Vulture)
come as angry as they can, like an enraged drunkard who is
looking for a fight with anyone, no matter
what size they are. Pissed, angry and
dirty, plenty of facial hair and quite possibly, armpit smell to
suffocate on.
But the
music itself is quite fast, for a stoner/sludge/doom band
anyway; chunky riffs that move with outstanding agility (“Drunk
Tank”), in this particular track was it not for the girth of the
guitars it would have been a straight ahead punk rock track. As
a contrast, “No Solution” opens acoustically (“Foxy Fuck”) only
to get heavy through mid tempo grooves, double kick drums and
the rowdy unsophisticated approach of Medlin. Handling the drums
is Alabama Thunderpussy’s Erik Larson, while Beaten Back to
Pure’s Vince Burke can’t contain himself and moves quite fast
through this self-titled debut. The rumour of the
existence of Hail! Hornet was out
back in 2006. At the time the name that floated around was
Vagabond. Once the rumour came to fruition all that was needed
was some bourbon. More than likely, more than some. Hail!
Hornet’s ten tracks punch below the gut more than sting. Solid
fast and pissed stoner is perhaps more accurate. Swampy sludge
fits them nicely too.
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