Lightning Bolt
Ride The Skies
Load
2001
Rating: 7 sparks of static electricity out of 10
When you give your band a name like Lightning Bolt, it is your constitutional duty to be a really rocking band. Anything less would be a disgrace to the fine upstanding tradition of naming hard rock bands and/or songs after inclement weather(for example, Hurricane, the AC/DC song Thunderstruck, Metallica’s Ride the Lightning, just to name a few...). These guys do not disappoint. Made up of only 2 guys playing bass and drums, they make enough of a racket for 10. They run a fine line between noise, metal, and math rock, sounding like The Boredoms and early Don Caballero getting into a fist fight. Definitely worth checking out if you like this kind of stuff, but probably not worth checking out if you only listen to slow jams. Hey, to each his own, but I’ll take the rawk.
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