This CD is not for everyone.
If you buy CDs looking for a wild ride musically and lyrics that make you think about how they are sang and why, “The Big Dirty” could be the perfect buy for you.
This album is so adequately described by its title, by offering up a raw and brutal metal sound that comes complete with no apologies.
Released Sept. 4, “The Big Dirty” from the Buffalo, New York-born band Every Time I Die explodes from the get go with the first track, “No Son of Mine.”
This savage metal experience is not your daddy’s rock band; with a mixture of rock screaming and passionate singing this group is one of a kind.
Making up the band is Keith Buckley on vocals, guitarists Jordan Buckley and Andy Williams, and Mike ‘Ratboy’ Novak playing the drums.
The sounds of the metal music, meticulously delivered drums and guitar riffs are so amazingly filthy (that’s a good thing) they make Ron Jeremy’s mustache look pretty and should make this CD a favorite of true metal fans.
Vocalist Keith Buckley is better than ever with “The Big Dirty” sounding like a mad man from with the speeding train paced “Pigs is Pigs” with lyrics like “Its just gets so hard going limp in your arms,” leaving you scratching your head on which way you should infer the meaning. The southern rock influences that made up the band’s last album “Gutter Phenomenon” are still every apparent with the breakdowns on “The Big Ugly” with songs such as “Depressionista”, “Cities and Years”, and “Rebel Without Applause.”
The song that caught my attention more than others and seems to be a seesaw-battle between vocal styles is “INRIehab” where Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green makes a guest appearance. The back and forth of Green’s smooth delivery and Buckley’s rough rock screams make the song one to be remembered.
The final track on the album “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Battery” is an audible call-out to those who refuse to be original and rob and steal the ideas and concepts of other people; the main focus of the song being writers.
Lines like, “You’re f*cking welcome,” and “Now you owe it to us, we demand to be taken aback to be shown the revival of hope for which your words are responsible” make it perfectly clear how the band feels about the importance of being real and original.
I will admit, this album is not one that will shatter the music world, or bring the industry to its knees, but it is CD that would be good to pop in the CD player and let out some frustration.