THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX 3 Meteor
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Jersey
pinball wizards Atomic Bitchwax burst onto the stoner rock scene
about 5 years ago with a nearly all-instrumental frizzle-fry of
acid-drenched space metal guitar courtesy Ed Mundell, the awesomely
stringy haired left-hand man in Dave Wyndorf’s everlasting,
cosmos-blasting dope show, Monster Magnet. Well, Ed’s gone, baby.
The cat split. His replacement? Helios fuckin’ Creed. No, just kidding.
Really, they replaced him with the Finn Ryan, the dude from hippy
stoner-jazz navel gazers Core. Finn sings some of the songs, too. This
might lead you to believe that the new Atomic Bitchwax sounds like the new
Core, and you would be correct, sir, they do. So, instead of the usual
blood-engorged rip ride in the two-accelerators, no-brakes interstellar
boogie van that was Mundell’s Bitchwax, you get a daisy trippin’ cruise to
the center of your five buck buzz in a rickety-but-always-rolling old VW
Bus. In a couple spots – the pseudo-sleaze boogie of “You Can’t Win”,
say, or the simple free-flowing Southern rawk of “Maybe I’m a Leo”
- the transition is nearly seamless. Elsewhere, the Bitchwax sound way
more like Coliseum II than Monster Magnet, and that just might be too far
out for the stoner metal hotdoggers. Then again, maybe not. I dunno, I
don’t smoke anything. Core fans, on the other hand, smoke all kindsa
things, so I reckon this’ll go over like a stem-free bag of whatever with
them. ________________________________________________________
Jersey
pinball wizards Atomic Bitchwax burst onto the stoner rock scene
about 5 years ago with a nearly all-instrumental frizzle-fry of
acid-drenched space metal guitar courtesy Ed Mundell, the awesomely
stringy haired left-hand man in Dave Wyndorf’s everlasting,
cosmos-blasting dope show, Monster Magnet. Well, Ed’s gone, baby.
The cat split. His replacement? Helios fuckin’ Creed. No, just kidding.
Really, they replaced him with the Finn Ryan, the dude from hippy
stoner-jazz navel gazers Core. Finn sings some of the songs, too. This
might lead you to believe that the new Atomic Bitchwax sounds like the new
Core, and you would be correct, sir, they do. So, instead of the usual
blood-engorged rip ride in the two-accelerators, no-brakes interstellar
boogie van that was Mundell’s Bitchwax, you get a daisy trippin’ cruise to
the center of your five buck buzz in a rickety-but-always-rolling old VW
Bus. In a couple spots – the pseudo-sleaze boogie of “You Can’t Win”,
say, or the simple free-flowing Southern rawk of “Maybe I’m a Leo”
- the transition is nearly seamless. Elsewhere, the Bitchwax sound way
more like Coliseum II than Monster Magnet, and that just might be too far
out for the stoner metal hotdoggers. Then again, maybe not. I dunno, I
don’t smoke anything. Core fans, on the other hand, smoke all kindsa
things, so I reckon this’ll go over like a stem-free bag of whatever with
them.