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Band Name: Bronx Casket Co., The
Album Name: Hellectric
Rating: 2.5 / 5 User Rating: 4 / 5
Label: Candlelight Records
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Tracklist
1. Little Dead Girl
2. Everything I Got
3. Dream of Angels
4. Sherimoon
5. Bleed with Me
6. Motorcrypt
7. Let My People Go
8. Free Bird
9. In My Skin
10. Can't Stop the Rain
11. Mortician's Lullaby
12. Live for Death
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Seven Witches member Jack Frost leads Bronx Casket Co, which also features Overkill bassist D.D. Verni. Power metal fans expecting to hear something similar to Frost's main band may be disappointed. BCC plays gothic metal with a new wave flavoring. 'Hollywood Goth Rock' is an accurate description of 'Hellectric.'
'Everything I Got' sounds like classic movie soundtrack songs like the main one in 'The Breakfast Club.' Frost achieves this sound on the said track by his singing style coupled with keyboards that sound like a 80s invention. It is easy to imagine a mustache wearing, perma-mulleted hipster bending knees and swaying shoulders in the gayest way to this song. The next track is also nostalgic, but in more of an ALICE IN CHAINS way. A heavy, bar chord groove and Layne Staley like vocal qualities, comprises each verse. Near the end of the song, Frost brings a halt to the action by letting his guitar notes ring out.
'Sherimoon' is an ode to Rob Zombie's exhibitionist wife, Sheri Moon. The 'yea' on the chorus line is surely a vocal homage to rock?n?roll's #1 ghoul. Frost makes choice cuts sampling Baby's dialogue from 'The House of One Thousand Corpses.' A doom metal version of Lynnrd Skynard's 'Freebird' is another track worth checking out. The ultra-slow version of this song has never been done before, so Frost should gain some points for trying something original.
The singing and the production are very solid on 'Hellectric.' The problem is that it just does not seem genuine. The lyrics can be very cheesy at times. At times, the keyboards heighten this sense of cheesiness. Frost needs to stick with what he does best, power metal, and leave gothic metal to those bands that do it for real.
Review by: Darren Cowan
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