Fog Wizard’s new “Anything Metal Will Do” may be just
five-songs long, but that’s enough time for this band to run a course from
murder to monsters to some more murder and a few points in between. It all raw
and rough, but pretty unchained as singer Captain Motherfucker navigates punk,
doom, and death elements crammed into E.P.
“Lobo” gets things going on an impressively gruesome note as
the band rips through a tale of abuse met with ax-wielding vengeance. Evil McDeathington pops the cork with a bit of bass bashing before drummer Gott
der Kettensagen keeps a steady death-march beat over which Darth Drewcifer666
deploys a variety of guitar squeals and screeches. Capt. Motherfucker narrates
the story of our psycho Lobo (last spotted in New Hampshire), and sets up a lunatic
pace that the rest of the band works around for the remainder of the project.
“Metal Warriors” is more or less ode to Motorhead, with the
thrash ’n’ punk approach carried over to “Fear the Kraken,” a bit of monster
metal that would sound at home in a Dethklok set.
But before anyone thinks Fog Wizard is just shitting around,
the band cranks out the brutal punked-up “Meat is Murder,” a song that says
"screw" to preaching and just gets down to the nitty gritty of the shit and blood
of slaughterhouse livin’.
“Gone” closes out the disc with a blast of doom, though in this
case der Kettensagen gets all schizophrenic on the kit while the bass and
guitar lock down the groove.
Fog Wizard’s CD-release show for “Anything Metal Will Do”
happens Monday, Nov. 26, at the Middle East in Cambridge. Sunken Ships,
Earthstomper, Descend Upon The Sane, and Black Trip are also on the bill. The
show is 18+ and doors open at 7 p.m.
This marks the inaugural show of Metal
Monday, a monthly showcase of local and regional metal bands that LT Live is
booking into the Middle East. Seren and
Boarcorpse will be on the Dec. 10 Metal Monday bill.
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