Lazerwolfs
- Get Mad 
Not 'Laser Wolves', you dig, the Wolfs are way beyond the conceits of tense and grammar. Significantly, they remind me of Leatherwolf, a mid- 80's band that operated with one fist full of Judas Priest, the other of Iron Maiden, and eyes full of crazy fire. Only difference is that those cats had three guitars and Lazerwolfs sound nothing like them, being a stoner rock band, but the double fisted influence of drug rock heavyweights (those holy dope twin titans, Black Sabbath and Kyuss), and a sound grounded more in the year they started this rock and roll situation- 1984- than whatever you call the Pro-Tools freak fry most bands are operating under these days, make me think that these two bands crossed paths some where along the way and threw the horns at each other with gusto. The retro- street metal vibe the Wolfs revel in aids things greatly, and Get Mad sounds more like something I missed back in my teenage years because I was too busy walking around in a drunken haze to notice, than it does an album produced last year. For the biggest and baddest kicks available, 'Big Rig' is the track that drives the Wolfs all the way home. For one thing, it's about a truck and the pill popping, hooker breaking monster behind the wheel, and nothing's more rock than that. It also features a thick guitar that's halfway between Zakk Wylde's ham fisted whine and Pepper Keenan's redneck devil crotch grabbing, and as it peel and blisters, it quite succinctly brings the hammer down on what the Lazerwolfs are all about- conviction, sweat, muscle, and gas station speed. In that order.