Lea Bromper – Bellows And The Fire
Post-grunge, Hard Rock, Grunge
Similar artists: Misfits, Joy Division, Dead Boys, Ramones, Circle Jerks, Prayers
Once you’ve visited enough casting calls you start to realize that there’s an inflation of people that can play the kind of part that you’d like to land. Not only that, but some already benefit from the experience of having done it before. That’s a discouraging thought.
Movie directors and all others tasked with employing artist talent know as much. This is one of the reasons why things such as “method acting” are treated with an incredible amount of reverence. It seems to say that the person taking on this strategy is not just willing to learn the part, but to suffer, in reality, as much as the character that they’re about to play has suffered.
Lea Bromper sounds like a convincing method actor on Bellows and The Fire. Unlike other Misfits-inspired horror-punk, this is not campy. It sounds like the work of someone that’s been around the block a few times and always returned with more bad acquaintances to add to their little black boom. Highly melodic and darker than a December morning in Norway, Lea Bromper creates an interesting brand of slasher-punk.
The Terrible Texan – Call to the Aliens
Genre: Punk, Grunge, Alternative Rock
Certainly, genre delimitation matters much less than it used to. After all, most of the biggest music festivals cater to all sorts of sonic preferences allowing electro, heavy rock, or straight-up pop music to coexist. Festival audiences seem happy with this arrangement and keep coming back for more every year.
Yet, let’s not fool ourselves, there are music scenes that will simply not accept bands based on their sound alone. The wrong haircut, jacket, or make-up can be a disqualifying factor. Heavy metal crowds are particularly rigorous about such things.
The Terrible Texan is a heavy, angry three-piece group. Were it not for the qualification process that I previously described, they might have well been a heavy metal group. As things stand, they’ve chosen the equally murky waters of modern garage rock. Their preference is for playing quick, but grimey guitar riffs over a gargantuan rhythm section. The Terrible Texan’s Call to the Aliens sounds like a high-school dance played over a radioactive field.
