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Pulling Teeth and Cobra Noir…

Pulling Teeth - Vicious SkinOh yeah! "Vicious Skin", from Maryland's Pulling Teeth (on Chainsaw Safety Records), cranks out a concise 11 tracks in a raging 14-and-a-half minutes. It's basically straight up metallic hardcore, but it's sort of a unique blend in that despite its blatant heaviness and frequent forays into all out thrash metal riffs, the hardcore aesthetic is never overshadowed. It's clearly more metal than most hardcore bands, but at the same time it's far more hardcore than most metallic hardcore bands, if that makes any sense at all. On occasion they'll even toss in a sludgy sort of undercurrent to some of the more metallic textures, not to mention a few borderline grinding blasts of speed, and of course there's also the fact that they bust out shitloads of chaotic, Integrity-esque leads, so... combine all of that with a slew of tempo changes and an unyielding sense of energy and you've got yourself a fuckin' winner, man. Only a couple of tracks break the two-minute mark, and several are less than a minute, so you're left wanting more... which is always a good thing. Keep an eye on these fuckers, 'cause this is good shit.

Pulling Teeth "Prepare For the Worst"
Pulling Teeth "Rot Forgotten"

Don't be an ass, pick this shit up if you're into it:

Chainsaw Safety Records
Very Distribution






Cobra Noir - BarricadesAlso from Chainsaw Safety Records is "Barricades", the second full-length from Canada's Cobra Noir. This one drops eight tracks of rugged hardcore/punk in a little under a half-hour. The warm, dirty recording adds quite a bit to the overall attack here, with a dense mix dominated by the aptly gritty guitar tone, followed by percussion and some absolutely wicked vocals. There's a little bit of a His Hero is Gone/Tragedy thing going on here in terms of the way they piece things together and bring in some octave chords or quick little lead runs to provide dashes of melody, but this is neither as heavy nor as involved as either of those bands, so it's a much more stripped down framework. A few tracks hit on a cool sort of sludgy rock vibe as well, which—if memory serves—was a little more prevalent on the band's debut, but I can't quite recall. All I can say is that I definitely enjoy this album more than the last, there's just something about it that feels more cohesive and forceful right off the bat. I do think the vocals are a little more pissed and powerful than the bulk of the music, but tracks like "Come Crashing" branch out just enough to really point to bigger and better things from these dudes. Not bad at all...

Cobra Noir "Come Crashing"

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Chainsaw Safety Records
Very Distribution

Comments

  1. goddamn i love that pulling teeth record.

    12.21.2006 | By phil d

  2. I’m digging the Cobra Noir album. Love the guitar tone. Review is spot on the money.

    12.21.2006 | By manisthebastard

  3. Pulling Teeth=best new band of 2006

    12.21.2006 | By Jeff

  4. pulling teeth… isn’t there a japanese band of the same moniker that’s been around for, like, 10 years?

    12.22.2006 | By chris

  5. Pulling teeth with Dwid comin up!  Yo Andrew, you should post some Day of Mourning, dom’s old band.  They are criminally underrated.

    12.22.2006 | By JOHNNY HASSON

  6. Yeah, for a second, I thought this was a post on the Pulling Teeth from Japan.  They just came out with a new album this year.
    But these happen quite often.  Like there is a Rise and Fall from Japan years before the Rise and Fall in the US.

    12.22.2006 | By Ed

  7. Cobra Noir are awesome, intense live performance. Living in Montreal I had the chance to saw them a couple of times. Even before the first release when they where called Black Cobra

    3.13.2007 | By PhilJoliette

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