BLACK TUSK – Taste the Sin CD
Relapse Records
I saw this Savannah, Georgia band when they opened up for PENTAGRAM a few weeks back and thought they were pretty decent sludge punk. They were like the poorer, redneck cousins of BARONESS except on that night they were playing for a metal crowd and not a bunch of indie rock losers, who BARONESS now plays for. Still after a handful of songs I went to the bar because even though they were tweaked and rocked like they were on meth their songs started overflowing onto each other. So here is this band’s latest release, their first for Relapse but they do have previous stuff out. Their 2008 release Passage Through Purgatory was decent as well. Normally I don’t comment much on cover art but Taste the Sin was drawn by John Baizley of BARONESS, so it looks like a BARONESS cover. Musically this dink follows the same pattern as their live show. Yeah out of the gate this thing smacks you in the face like a ball peen hammer. BLACK TUSK can dish out a pummeling of filthy grooves. But by the halfway point you’re bored so you figure it’s a perfect time to go take a shit and bring a book with ya. Yeah that’s what I did and the book was Care of Game Meat and Trophies. I did keep the bathroom door open to hear the CD.
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