Grim Rhythm ‘Forever Eating Shit’
You wait eight years for a follow up album and it’s all over in twenty two minutes. That’s not a euphemism for my private life, this is Melbourne’s Grim Rhythm’s new album Forever Eating Shit.
twenty two minutes and eight tracks of heavy metal, hard rocking, boogie goodness. Ripping solos, storming drums and chugging riffs flow through this album like the Yarra overflowing during a rainstorm.
Open Fire opens fire with an atmospheric beginning, before grabbing you by the short and curlies and yanking hard. Groove metal to head bang to as the riffs land hard.
The band is an instrumental band, so they invite you to visualise what you think is going on and second track Guns plants images of car chases, weaving in and out traffic with the cops hot on your tail. The time switch leading to a searing solo that are the flames that this chase ultimately ends in.
Grease Money sounds like an old school Motörhead card game gone wrong with a stomping bar fight at the end while title track Forever Eating Shit swings with the riffs and grooves that has you riding at dawn into battle with Judas Priest at your side, as Tim Maxwell shoots another bluesy and sharp solo into the sky.
RNR Warfare pleasant and soft intro is soon replaced by a bouncing and foot stomping riff before the album finishes with Grim Nothing, an epic near six-minute track on a twenty two-minute album, which is cinematic theatre. The drums building into a slow, harder, heavy blues riff then red-hot solo. The rumbling and rocking riffs creating a rhythmic pattern like old school jig music, a circus gone mad if you will, of three exceptionally talented rockers who didn’t make me miss a vocalist.
This is music to get pumped up to before a night on the town. So, grab a stubbie, turn the stereo up loud and rock on!
Album Review By Iain McCallum
GRIM RHYTHM: FOREVER EATING SH*T
OUT MARCH 11 Via Suspect Records
