Preview
of The Killdorados, Boxcar Satan and Evil Beaver
By
Matthew Toledo - 10/16/2001
Grab your Bibles and start praying.
Not even Jerry Falwell will be able to save us from this show at the Union on Friday October 26th,
2001. The music just may conjure up a hideous horde of demons to kill
us all. Local hard rockers The Killdorados hook up with Evil, no-wave blues-punk-swingers, Boxcar Satan and the super-heavy chick metal band, Evil Beaver.
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| Boxcar
Satan from San Antonio, Texas |
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Boxcar
Satan hails from San Antonio, Texas --a city that is hot as hell in the summer. Get
it... Satan... hot in Texas... eh... fart. Anyhow. They've been
described by a whole host of indie music zines as being pretty
spiffy--in a "kill your parents" sort of way. I had a chance to listen to their 1999 Compulsive Records release
entitled, Days Before The Flood.
The disk starts out with a very loud montage of extremely
well recorded and compressed guitar sounds and audio snippets that scared
the crap out of me. Highlights of the disk included catchy rock tunes like
Devil Times
Five, Inferno, and
Toothache. Do you see the pattern here? Devils, Infernos, and I swear that
my dentist is a demon of some sort. Overall, Boxcar Satan has a
dark and intense sound that varies in range from straight up garage rock
revival to evil sounding free form jazz drum solos played against a wall
of over-distorted vintage guitars and muff-pedal bass. Hints of super-evil
swing could also be detected in some tunes. Their front-man sounds like
Tom Waits or Alice Cooper at times. The disk was full of grungey guitar
riffs but what impressed me was tightness off the band. With tunes that
turn on a dime and descend into chaos, Boxcar Satan betrays the fact that
they are actually good musicians. Hopefully the punk scene wont hold that
against them. Local Comparisons: A meaner version of the Jive
Turkeys cross-bred with Bob City.
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Evue Evil on bass for Evil Beaver |
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Evil Beaver's web page is claims that the band is a two
piece act. Evie Evil plays the bass, Laura Ann Beaver woman's the kit and
both ladies sing. But after listening to their disk, I found it hard to
believe that all that came from just two people. Check out the The Evil Beaver web
site to download 3 full-length tracks off their latest
release, Lick It. Cheesy at times, downright overpowering at others, Evil
Beaver's music rides the fine line between chick RAWK and heavy metal.
This group has a strong visual element as well. They've been known to play
in various costumes or lack-there-of (i.e. pasties). They site 80's cock
rock and Black Sabbath as inspirations. Local Comparisons:Disengage bonded
with a more metallic, less punk version of We March with boobies.
