CD REVIEW: CHAINSAW HOOKERS – We Want Your Blood
CD REVIEW: CHAINSAW HOOKERS – We Want Your Blood
Independent/Firestarter
10 April, 2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
10/10
Partially funded by a successful Pozible crowd funding campaign, Chainsaw Hookers’ second album is a stone cold instant classic: a raging monsoon of hewn-from-living-rock riffs, a rhythm section whose bottom end is deeper than the Mariana Trench, and blood curdling vocals through one slasher mini-epic after another.
The filmic reference is apt: Blood Rock, the Hookers’ self-styled supergenre, is all about the capture of 3-to-4 minute punk metal musical horror movies. Oh yes – there WILL be blood…
I said “punk metal” but whilst either camp might argue the toss as to which can rightly claim the majority of these denim-clad horror-movie geek’s DNA, the only real answer is Blood Rock: plasma-splattered horror in song form.
Make Them Die Slowly opens the album with a slashing riff and buckets of blood, setting the tone nicely. New York Ripper keeps proceedings bright crimson and Ride With Us and Brotherhood Of Satan delve into some seriously dark, evil shit.
Blue Sunshine’s primal scream-after-bad-acid is the rawest, punkest serving on the meat slab, while The Town That Dreads Sundown’s insane riff and Lemmy-at-double-speed (which is saying something!) makes it one of the best in a pack of standouts, before both Jaws and The Hills Have Eyes get the Hooker treatment.
There’s heaps more: Killer Party revels in it’s comic horror pastiche, just like the mid-Eighties movie of the same name, The Lost Boys is all ‘80s vampire cool, and in closer Near Dark, when Andrew Rowcroft intones “we are the ones that your parents warned you/parents warned you ABOUT!” you know they aren’t foolin’.
Play it LOUD.
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