100% raving monster looney metal-garage freakery from Japanese guitar hooligans Electric Eel Shock, who are dead-set on saving the entire world and most of the outlying planets in the time it takes to listen to one of their songs. Their plan for our salvation is to unleash two-and-three minute bursts of high-explosive trash rock, liberally salted with flash metal pyrotechnics and references to Black Sabbath (“I Wanna Be a Black Sabbath Guy, But I Should Be a Black Bass), Van Halen (guitarist Aki Morimoto makes his case for being faster than Edward on “Rock ‘n’ Roll Can Rescue the World”), tigers, zombies, and, uh, Dee Snider (“Do the Metal”), which, when delivered at concrete-cracking volume, should reverse humanity’s headlong plunge into self-destruction, and bring about a Golden Age in which leather wrist cuffs, vintage softball concert tees, and Marshall stacks are the new symbols of peace and harmony. A lot of the tunes on Go USA! are in Japanese, so they might be addressing other topics on those songs, but you’ve gotta admit that EES’ goals are pretty honorable, if in a totally berserk way, but selflessly performing good deeds seems to be the providence of the certifiable these days, so why shouldn’t a miracle come in the form of three guys from Japan, one of whom performs wearing only a sock over his dick (drummer Tomoharu “Gian” Ito)? You gotta admit, it totally beats the whole wings-trumpet-and-harp routine. Oh, and if this CD doesn’t convince you, they’re about to release a new one, Beat Me, with Atti fucking Bauw (Scorpions, Fight, Judas Priest) behind the boards. The Rapture is only minutes away, true believers.

Electric Eel Shock Web site www.electriceelshock.com

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– Paul Gaita