Almost 20 years after the unreleased FUCT demo, John and Obie would release this beast. Cancer Brides had Obie playing drums, rather than just singing, and I was told that he wrote most of the music. John stayed on guitar and other Tucson music vets Psychic Mike (Opinion Zero, Schism), Abel (Cosmic Jackhammer), Joey (ZTTF) and Jeff Ghoul (Backstab Gospel) filled out the line up. The music is progressive like FUCT was in their later years, but in a different way. Instead of bar rock jams they go for a more metal sound. Epic metal like Iron Maiden, but with nods to Feel the Darkness era Poison Idea. And yet a song like The Wrong Kill could be a straight up pop song if it wasn’t for Abel’s manic singing style. Other songs like 5X8 are sludgy, heavy and noisy. The guitars on this are huge and add a lot of melody that is juxtaposed nicely with the crazy vocals. I don’t think any of these guys have current active projects, which is a shame. Great artwork by Obie’s wife Paula.
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