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REVIEW: FOUND DEAD IN TRUNK - KEROSENE COCKTAIL CD (75orLess, Warren, RI) Connecticut’s FOUND DEAD IN TRUNK offer up some early MISFITS worship that’s lo-fi without sounding trebly; there’s still plenty of meat on those hooks.  Chop up some very early IRON MAIDEN carrots, take a handful of BLACK SABBATH at their punkest-sounding, add them both to the MISFITS broth, and you get the idea (as long as the MAIDEN and SABBATH comparisons didn’t get you thinking metal, or even crossover; this is still straight-up punk). I could DEFINITELY picture ‘Hawks And Doves’ being on the soundtrack to a classic skate video — I could picture ALL OF THIS being on the soundtrack to a classic skate video.  Shred-worthy! These guys have their rhythm guitar churning out some charging riffs with the bass and drums along for the hellride, then lead guitar takes off every once in a while for a mosh around the fretboard, just goin’ nuts!  The vocals are rough but limber; they glide around everything (sprinkling lyrics about death, hate, and John Wayne Gacey wherever they go) and the result’s some tough, raw, evil-sounding punk with plenty of swagger and REALLY satisfying hooks and melodies to punch the air to.  Every track sounds different and has something to offer.  Not a dud in the bunch. If this were some long-lost recording from the late ’70s, this’d be Ebay gold right now.  Get this if you can, see these guys live if you can.  Rad shit.  NOT SHITTY A review of the album’s artwork: Kind of a messy, two-color silkscreen (the image I’ve used here is off the internet; my copy’s a lot messier).  These guys deserved better than this.  At least it’s not in a plastic jewel case (it’s a cardboard gate-fold sleeve). KINDA SHITTY —BEN JENSEN

REVIEW: FOUND DEAD IN TRUNK - KEROSENE COCKTAIL CD (75orLess, Warren, RI)

Connecticut’s FOUND DEAD IN TRUNK offer up some early MISFITS worship that’s lo-fi without sounding trebly; there’s still plenty of meat on those hooks.  Chop up some very early IRON MAIDEN carrots, take a handful of BLACK SABBATH at their punkest-sounding, add them both to the MISFITS broth, and you get the idea (as long as the MAIDEN and SABBATH comparisons didn’t get you thinking metal, or even crossover; this is still straight-up punk).

I could DEFINITELY picture ‘Hawks And Doves’ being on the soundtrack to a classic skate video — I could picture ALL OF THIS being on the soundtrack to a classic skate video.  Shred-worthy!

These guys have their rhythm guitar churning out some charging riffs with the bass and drums along for the hellride, then lead guitar takes off every once in a while for a mosh around the fretboard, just goin’ nuts!  The vocals are rough but limber; they glide around everything (sprinkling lyrics about death, hate, and John Wayne Gacey wherever they go) and the result’s some tough, raw, evil-sounding punk with plenty of swagger and REALLY satisfying hooks and melodies to punch the air to.  Every track sounds different and has something to offer.  Not a dud in the bunch.

If this were some long-lost recording from the late ’70s, this’d be Ebay gold right now.  Get this if you can, see these guys live if you can.  Rad shit.  NOT SHITTY

A review of the album’s artwork: Kind of a messy, two-color silkscreen (the image I’ve used here is off the internet; my copy’s a lot messier).  These guys deserved better than this.  At least it’s not in a plastic jewel case (it’s a cardboard gate-fold sleeve). KINDA SHITTY

—BEN JENSEN

POSTED 11 months ago
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