ATMAN
L'Assassi de Venus
(Sun & Moon)

RAISE THE RED
LANTERN
S/T
(At a Loss)

DROIDS ATTACK
Must Destroy
(Crustacean)

SOAC / TREASURE CAT
Last Day of Summer
(Underdogma)

FUNEROT
And Then You Fucking Die, Man
(Inimical)

MOHORAM ATTA / 
THOU
Degradation of Human Life

(Halo of Flies)

RITES OF THY 
DEGRINGOLADE
An Ode to Sin

(Nuclear War Now)

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Life’s not fair, you know. While most bands spend all their years in existence trying to write one good song and a not so sizeable portion of others manage to do so and live off it, others, like Droids Attack, make it seem so easy and write whole albums of high quality chutzpah and high energy music. What’s more infuriating, they make it seem like a joke. A good joke. I mean, they have a song called “The Unforgiven 4” for chrissakes!  Taking a look at the digipack you can tell these droids aren’t about getting deep and making you think sad thoughts. Yeah, they may be dressed as soldiers in the second world war but that robot mascot – named Robo – is beyond cute and apparently he is an enlisted stoner fanatic too.

Must Destroy follows in their tradition of writing great ‘punk metal’ as they self describe their style.   All Your Chicks Are Belong to Us, their 2001 demo later released as a full-length in 2004 by Crustacean, earned them  a MAMA award (Madison Area Music Award). Whether we should take that as an incentive to worship Droids Attack, we should immediate get back to their back catalogue or we should care at all I don’t know, but all I can do is highly recommend this new record.  If you are slightly discouraged by the punk metal tag, well don’t be. Punk in this case is nothing but the attitude. Musically, this is boogie stoner..or something like that.

In attitude, energy, balls, drive, vocals and production Must Destroy reminds me of one of my favorite albums of all time; Innocents by Only Living Witness. Think the Bostonites, only on 45 RPMs’.  The main difference is that this one is jam packed with songs that move at a much faster pace and when not, they jam – like the title track – aimlessly but with a contagious joie de vivre. Double and even triple kudos to vocalist guitarist Brad Van, the man has that rough and ready everyman voice that is pretty akin to OLW’s Jonah Jenkins.

Droids Attack are on their own though and this album is a step in the right direction for anyone who is willing to embrace its rock and roll roots and water them with punk attitude.  There is a southern fried flavor that emanates from these riffs and that showers these songs with sleaze and a bit of that 70’s coked up vibe. As a whole, Must Destroy is stellar, from beginning to end – the sequencing is flawless – this is one hell of a record.

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