![]() File next to: Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Loop, GNOD. What to buy: Deep Trip is released by Sacred Bones on Monday. Most likely to: Appeal to fans of metal and psychedelia. The truth: If Pink Floyd were a biker gang from Texas. The buzz: "Skull-crushing repetition, menacing walls of nuanced guitar noise, feedback magick wah'd from hell to the sky, a sprawling kraut backbone, evil melodies". Bumpy Road sounds like a tweaked-out twilight ride, a feeling that’s accented by the echoey paranoia in frontman Ryan Rousseau’s vocal delivery. Set the Controls for the Art of the Stun, and pass the Hedex. Deep Trip, Destruction Unit’s second effort, is a druggy mindfuck of a record, one that staggers a wayward line between heat stroke and altered consciousness. Having built a reputation for terrorizing crowds with sheer noise power and reckless behavior, they have been described as 'a band who felt more like a horror movie than a band. There are titles on the album such as God Trip and Final Flight that suggest all manner of ultimate noise freakery, and we're not sure if we could stomach the whole lot in one sitting, but this is one of the more entertaining uses of the electric guitar - and notice there are three of them being played simultaneously here - that we've heard in recent times. Arizona loud rock outfit Destruction Unit have shared the song, 'Bumpy Road' from their upcoming LP Deep Trip.With the previously released 'The World on Drugs' and this new track, which is laden with noisy psychedelic grooves and clouded vocals it appears as though the album will live up to its title. Being the brainchild of Ryan Rousseau (Reatards, The Wongs, Tokyo Electron), Destruction Unit is a Sonoran Desert based psychedelic noise punk band. Bumpy Road is slow and dirgey, reminiscent of Loop and their late-'80s take on Hell's Angel boogie. Halfway through it speeds up again and starts pummelling and juddering, accelerating towards oblivion like Steppenwolf dying for some red meat. Bumpy Road is slow and dirgey, reminiscent of Loop and their late-80s take on Hells Angel boogie. We like the way the riff decelerates to a sludgy pace, and the booming, stentorian singing, which is of the Peter Murphy-announcing-that-Bela-Lugosi-is-dead school of portentous vocalese. Now heres Destruction Unit, who are signed to New York label Sacred Bones. The World On Drugs is like hearing metal through a psychedelic prism. The point is, Destruction Unit don't just bring the noise, they bring out the metaphors in the least figurative-minded listener. A spiritual odyssey of sadomasochistic self-loathing with songs about love and freedom." Our favourite is the description that appears on Sacred Bones' website and is maybe lifted from another reviewer: "It is morphine boogie for the 21st century noise addict. ![]() "It's like Dead Kennedys recorded in a wind tunnel a really pissed-off Hüsker Dü playing a gig under an international flight path," wrote one reviewer, while another said of the single, the World On Drugs, " blasts the record into action with a noise like a suspension bridge collapsing in on itself, metal grinding on metal and steel wires ringing out before a white-hot thrasher riff kicks in." And the funny thing, it really does. Consult their full schedule below.Destruction Unit - named one of the Best Live Bands in Rolling Stone - have released two albums this year: Void, which came out in February, and now there's Deep Trip, which as we say joins the dots between metal and psychedelia, like Black Sabbath riding a White Bicycle. Listen to D-Units new brain scrambler, 'Bumpy Road,' and hold yourself. In support of both efforts, the band will be on tour in the U.S. It’s a profound bit of aural angst and a mighty declaration from the band, one that says, “We want to watch the world crack under our boot heels.” How’s that for a fight song, Sun Devils? But where the song becomes especially violent and lethal is in the build. And while I can’t say for certain if the band feels similarly, or if they champion the city of maroon and gold, those sentiments are evident on the band’s new single, “The World on Drugs”.Īt its core, the single is a slice of lo-fi punk, with frontman Ryan Rosseau’s slacker-Elvis croon buried under a black sea of snarling guitars and frantic drum work. But as a fellow resident, I’m more than aware of not only the heat, but the general air of nihilism that permeates: maybe it’s the overwhelming cultural domination of sports and/or ASU, or just a proximity to the sketchier parts of Mesa, but it’s easy to feel angry and isolated in this city. Back in May, Tempe, AZ’s Destruction Unit pulverized our Top MP3s of the Week with “Sonic Pearl”, an unrelenting and oppressive blend of noise-rock that’s as hot as the mid-noon sun of their hometown.
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