Sons of Sleaze
2013 Planet Metal
Chicago's tyrants of terror, Bones, are back with their second album. This one's a good way to close out the year, with it's "less is more" approach and bare-bones (any pun intended) sound. Perfectly bleak and barren music to head into the bleak and barren winter. Well... truth be told, there's no real snow and ice to be found in my part of the country, although I did give this a listen for the first time during a rainstorm the like of which I don't think my area has seen since the days of Noah for the sheer volume in the amount of time. Since their debut, Bones have tweaked their sound a bit. In some ways, they got a cleaner mix... yet in others it's more dirty. The core "Hellhammer goes punk" sound is of course intact, although I think they backed off the crust elements from the last one. Instead, there's a little more grind, and you'll realize it when you compare this material to their cover of Terrorizer's "Fear of Napalm." So it's really business as usual here, with the guitar and bass distortion turned up to the max, and Jon Necromancer's vocals coming off as a member of the howling damned. The songs are all fairly simple sounding, but that's what you came here for right? If you're looking for Rhapsody of Fire, you'd best move on because you're in the wrong place and it's definitely the wrong time.
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