DR. SLAGGLEBERRY - review added 23rd September 2010
Live Album Review: The Slagg Factory (Instrumental) (2010)
For fans of: Progressive Math Metal... and very short albums (and long-ish EPs)
Dr. Slaggleberry - presently Chris Pethers and Tim Morrison on guitar - may sound like a medicinal fruit you wouldn't touch with someone else's...and the album's name seems to refer to nightclubs I'm sure we've all visited...but actually they are a kind of progressive and jazz-fusion math metal band formed in 2008.
The Slagg Factory is their 3rd release, and follows their debut self-titled EP, and the "Tuc Into The Tar" EP, They are now working towards recording their first full length, set for release in 2011.
The sound is utterly complex and technically brilliant, incorporating all sorts of random time signatures, broken rhythms and strange twiddly bits. The result is undeniably impressive, but not actually that brilliant to listen to. Maybe with some vocalising it would make sense, but as an instrumental it's not a lot more than a load of hugely clever brain expanding noise.
This doesn't do a lot for me. I'm in awe of the skills these guys show, but that doesn't mean I want to hear this again. Go figure...
Check out... Something else, perhaps?
Track List:
01. Feed Me a Stray Cat
02. 13 Grades of Filth
03. 845
04. Bastard Brew
05. Gone Devil
Artist's website(s): MySpace
