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James Dean Trio :: Getting Scary
(The Record Machine, 2003)
If you're a headbanger, your neck is going to be sore after listening to this album.
What you've got here is some hard, fast metal music, topped with screams of agony and anger that are rarely intelligible.
Fortunately, the music backing up vocalist Jon Terry is well-produced, top-notch acrobatic metal. Listen to this album in stereo and at high volumes. At one point in the album, I was listening with only one headphone, but it wasn't until I put the other headphone on that I realized that the guitar solo I was listening to was actually an even better duet between Nate Harman and Jeremy Harman on the audio barrage that is "You Better Axe Somebody."
The Harman brothers (Nate and Jeremy) regularly exercise their prowess of speed riffing on all sorts of scales. And the rhythm section of Nic Hathaway on bass and Dan Bottemuller on drums is tight and recorded well. Bottemuller's blast beats are certainly nothing to scoff at.
Basically, the James Dean Trio has set a very high standard for local metal, and hardcore as well, in 2004. You could say very little about this album that's bad unless you just don't like metal.
The use of samples occasionally helps to break up what might otherwise get monotonous, and vocal effects help out every now and then as well.
At just over half an hour, this is a tight, hard album from open to close, and it should be the standard by which the rest of local hard music should be judged in 2004.
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