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Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying

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 March 23 2008 at 09:38:44 AM



America's late-coming answer to Tankard; polished, huggable, lovable Thrash Metal (crossover, if you prefer) stuck in a permanent, sexless adolescence of B-movies and alcohol. For their third and dramatically weaker new album, the pasty-faced foursome from Richmond, Virginia take on the ultimate slacker dream and knead it further into their soft, altogether harmless gimmick: "Putting the fun back into rock," with 15 new tracks of ultra camp, smug anthems to brew, styled like a rerun of USA Up All Night, complete with references to OX 45.

This helps explain the incredibly lame impulse toward "partying," a term which I've seriously never heard spoken but from the mouths of dipshit frat boys living (literally and figuratively) inside the cathode ray. It would still be benign, I suppose, if it weren’t pushed so heavily in a ruinous attempt to link arms between their superficially concocted style and the work of more talented and inventive artists.

I'm sure some people, smart people, find this genuinely funny and their concerts entertaining, but too much of it is simply try-hard pandering whipped up for their moronic fan base. (If cooking scrambled eggs with beer doesn't mark you as a poser, I don't know what does.) An album that yields nothing but a watered down concept, a zero proof, padded knock-off with maybe (maybe!) 3 good songs total. Those Thrash riffs may launch again with super-human speed but the cleverness quickly fizzles below the vivid colors of Andrei Bouzikov’s cover art.

What's left is an appalling display cuteness and self-satisfied mugging that exposes the band's hip, yet blanket normality. Put it this way: If you are actually old enough to drink beer legally but still consider it a radical activity then please, shoot yourself in the dick. Although once more copying the tone of their betters, Waste wimps out on what made these—and granted, even their last record—both sharp and entertaining, supplying content likewise stripped of all rebellion (A song about food fights? Really?) So yeah, like The Stoned Age, or Troma, or maybe Porky's, but without the goddamn tits of it all.

[Todd DePalma]

Municipal Waste
The Art of Partying
2007
Earache
http://www.earache.com
type: reviews    keywords: thrash metal, try-hard,   

 
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