BUG – lachesis
(LP, Rock Is Hell)
It is christmas time. I wonder if these guys care? My
favorite christmas movies are “Die Hard”, “Die Hard II” and “Bad
Santa”. I betcha these guys agree to that selection. If you are able to
write a single song containing drug dealers, direct hate messages, the lord,
a euphoric cry towards the fresh night and a metaphor comparing a
love-bitemark with a bullethole, then it is pretty obvious that your general
outlook on life is pretty bleak. Want some more: “So finally god took away
the sun and I crawled into the dark.” Apocalyptically nice, innit? “I
give you some candy and you give me some pussy” Sweet as sugarpie, and
definitely influenced by the unstoppable wave of teenie-porn on the
internets. And “The show must go on” about the famous (well, around here
and Germany) showmaster of a dumb music show and his downfall in a whirlwind
of cocaine, blowjobs, surgery and racist jokes is in lyrical ways one of my
favorite tracks on here. That is, next to the track “Jesus Jackson”, but
that has already been released on their split-10” with GodSentUs (on Interstellar / Hirntrust).
Musically Bug still don’t leave a single inch of
their given path of relentless, bad-ass noise rock. They still have an ear
for Jesus Lizard induced dyslergic blues at the same time as they take in
nitro-fuming hardcore/punk/screamo riffage. They also take a nod or two
towards purified metal. I bet these guys all listened to Manowar, Iron Maiden and
the like as youngsters. Well, as long as it knocks the top off any can of
motoroil stupidly left out in the open, everything seems okay. Nothing new,
yes, but that is good around here. This kind of noise rock always makes my
boat roll. You may think you have heard all of this before, but you won’t
have heard it so honed and perfectioned. As far as noise rock goes, Bug is
definitely one of the best bands around in Austria – another evidence that
some things get better with age.
