SLUG Magazine’s collection of reviews covering the latest and greatest of Utah-based music, covering all varieties of genre, style and type.

Local Review: My Band – Long Long Time

Local Review: My Band – Long Long Time
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My Band Long Long Time My Band = Danzig + Deep Purple + Motörhead   This is an awesome album musically; vocals sound like Jimi Hendrix + Lemmy, and the dirty guitarwork is a cross between classic rock and metal. Its major and fatal flaw is that almost every song sounds the same. I mean,

Local Review: Royal Bliss – After the Chaos II

Local Review: Royal Bliss – After the Chaos II
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Royal Bliss After the Chaos II Air Castle Records Royal Bliss = Vertical Horizon + P.O.D. For how many people can’t stand Royal Bliss, they sure show up the hatahs with After the Chaos II. Sure, Royal Bliss come from a surefire mainstream perspective, but how. This album has more catchy hooks than an 18th-century

Local Review: Sound Lab – Eat Your Pets

Local Review: Sound Lab – Eat Your Pets
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Sound Lab Eat Your Pets Sound Lab = NIN + The Bad Plus + Cat Stevens They experimental ambience was passable in the first three tracks, but really picks up in “Toy Box,” where toy percussion, discordant, creepy guitar, maggot-moulting clicking sounds and beautiful cello blend together—a perfect soundtrack to falling asleep clutching your dead mother’s

Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Self-Titled

Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Self-Titled
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Twilight Transmissions Self-titled Nova One Twilight Transmissions = 23 Extacy + Philip K. Dick   All-instrumental industrial annihilation brought to you by Chris Alvarado of 23 Extacy is all pleasure, no pain. Calculated repetition saturates the drone with sophistication. Everything on TT has been thought out as carefully as a Scrabble championship game, from its

Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort

Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort
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Violet Run Trouver la Mort Violet Run = The Cure + The Shroud + Love Spirals Downward   Violet Run skirts the fine line between sorrowful sincerity and fancy-pants whininess dangerously, but for the most part, are able to stick to the realm of the earnest. They’re a bit over the top, but it’s hard

Local Review: The Obliterate – The Eternal Conquest

Local Review: The Obliterate – The Eternal Conquest
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The Obliterate Plague The Eternal Conquest  Hellspawn Creations The Obliterate Plague = Dark Throne + Mayhem + Kreator + Blasphemy   The Obliterate Plague is yet another shining black creature of hate from the dark recesses of Salt Lake City’s darkest corners. This CD actually contains two separate recording sessions, one slightly rougher in sound

Local Review: Rezolution – Karmakatastrophe

Local Review: Rezolution – Karmakatastrophe
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Rezolution Karmakatastrophe Fenix   Rezolution sent SLUG a copy of their new CD, even though I bashed their last one. Maybe they thought there was a different reviewer now; nope—Nicholas Fox was me, Rezolution. Face! Anyway, Rezolution pride themselves on having more substance than most “cute boy-bands.” They are heavier than Justin Timberlake; I’ll give

Local Review: Red Bennies – Adult Sophisticates

Local Review: Red Bennies – Adult Sophisticates
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Red Bennies Adult Sophisticates Rest 30 Red Bennies = 40s big band + 50s garage + 70s soloing I can’t give Red Bennies a bad review because one of the members used to be my next-door neighbor, and when I would get hungry, I would go over to their house and his wife would serve

Local Review: Spit – Self-Titled Demo

Local Review: Spit – Self-Titled Demo
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Spit Self-Titled Demo Spit = Godsmack + Taproot + Disturbed   Spit aren’t bad for what they do, even though the first track blows monkey chunks and they could have used better production … or just production, period. Fat, harshly separated riffs churn more viciously than a jilted milkmaid. Aggressive drumming with plentiful amounts of

Local Review: Little Sap Dungeon – Silent Entities

Local Review: Little Sap Dungeon – Silent Entities
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Little Sap Dungeon Silent Entities DSBPBackscatter LSD = Skinny Puppy + Godflesh + Lustmord   From the industrial sector of Salt Lake City’s dark underbelly the entity known as Little Sap Dungeon (LSD for short) spawns. This is one hell of a dark and brutal CD! The crashing tide of sound ranges from subliminal ambience