Heavy Metal - Walking the Dog

  

  When I previously featured Heavy Metal back in 2017 (https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2017/10/heavy-metal-use-your-skull.html) I said they were a 3 piece from Berlin who had released 3 albums in around 2 years. That output was augmented in 2019 by LP 4 (Double LP) and then last November they posted a teaser track to LP 5. You can find those releases here : https://heavymetal.bandcamp.com/ 

  Finally, that 5th long player is up for pre order. It'll be titled V: Live at the Gas Station Fighting The Devil (it's not a live album and the band don't play heavy metal music!), it'll be out on July 23rd on Total Punk Records and a couple of tracks are already streaming here :  https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-live-at-the-gas-station-fighting-the-devil-2

  The album kicks off with a track called Motorhead (nope, still not heavy metal. instead Bandcamp promises a reverb blanketed Jesus And Mary Chain vibe). This is followed by one of the teaser tracks, it's titled Motorbike and it nicely whets the appetite for what's to come (which were promised is party music for party mutants which will make us herk, jerk, spazz out, and let loose... I'm sold!) 

  A 3rd track has popped up on Youtube and may be my favourite yet. It begins with a snarling canine before morphing into something akin to a 70's chart hit song from Planet Weirdo. It's called Walking The Dog... 

Heavy Metal - Use Your Skull

    Today's update features "The Neitzschean Supermen Of Dustbin Rock...."

  Heavy Metal are a 3 piece from Berlin who are tagged as being a metal band on Bandcamp but happily are much more interesting than that. They released their debut LP in 2016, followed it up less than a year later with LP2 and after presumably deciding 10 months between releases was far too long only waited 7 months to unleash LP3. It came out earlier this month on golden 12" vinyl on Harbinger Sound and you can find all 3 albums here :  https://heavymetal.bandcamp.com/

  I've heard them described as "Germs or Zounds covering Devo on speed." Comparisons have also been made with Crass and Sleaford Mods, personally I'm getting reminded of Mcluskey. They produce chaotic punk music complete with chords, riffs, samples and all manner of quirky odds and ends. On their last album they covered Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy, this time around they put their own unique spin on Cameo's Word Up. It's punk Jim, but not as we know it. This is one of those bands I'd direct people towards when they start moaning that punk isn't interesting or exciting anymore. Granted it's not your typical vocals, guitar, bass, drums, verse, chorus, verse anthemic punk sound but it's all the better for that.

  This is called Use Your Skull.....