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Band Name: Five Foot Thick
Album Name: Blood Puddle
Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 3 / 5
Label: Eclipse Records
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Tracklist
Unfounded
Bored
Ducked Out
Betrayed
Listen
Blood Puddle
Nothing
Clarity
Envy You
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Next to the definition of "heavy" it should say Five Foot Thick. These guys slam through some very weighty grooves on 'Blood Puddle'. Their music has a mean vibe that completely rocks out and doesn't let up. You can really feel the energy behind the band as they create a manic, pissed as hell vibe on 'Betrayed'. Vocalist Bryan Dilling completely attacks the microphone on all levels from violent screams to power charged raps. The inflection in his vocal style and attack is striking. On 'Listen', Dilling drops some seriously antagonistic flavor that filled with bursts of testosterone. 'Unfounded' kicks off with a bent, deranged sounding riff and as the screams of Dilling burst out of the speakers you can tell that this man has some very serious business at hand.
Matt 'GZUS' Gonzales adds a lot to the groups sound, incorporating tables and wicked sound effects that make the music of Five Foot Thick that much more interesting. The band really drops the bomb on 'Bored', a relentless track that features a really hardcore feel to it. This is definitely the kind of music that makes you want to get up and jump around. If you haven't trashed the whole room by the end of this track you've got to be the lamest metal head in town. 'Ducked Out' has some neat sounding background vocals that accent the flamethrower vox of Dilling. The guitar performance of George Silva is thick, chunky and formidable on this track. Throughout the record his playing shows a good sense of when to tighten things up and go for the power in the instrument.
The title track finds the band digging into an up-tempo riff reminiscent of Anthrax, but the music takes on a whole different dimension when the vocals kick in. Dilling gets going on this one like he's rabid. The track as a whole comes off as a more vicious One Minute Silence. The breakdown in the middle of the song is really original and eerie. 'Nothing' is a bleak dirge that gives a drifting feeling. Silas McQuain spices up the track with a lot of cymbal emphasis that breaks down and builds back up into a solid, punchy beat. On 'Envy You' the bass thumping of Kris Demers anchors a harmonic laden riff before moving into a rolling rhythm that pounds the eardrums. 'Blood Puddle' is a cool package that features all of the lyrics and a great album cover that really lets you know where the band's heads are at. This is going to be a hard one for Five Foot Thick to top!
Review by: EF
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