Saturday, June 4, 2011

L.U.S.T. - L.U.S.T. & MRSA [Fuck off Underground Rock demo]


Me and a friend once had a black metal band. It really sucked, to be brutally honest. And after we ended out splitting up and moving in entirely different directions musically, we formed different bands. Me, into doom metal, and him, strangely enough, into glam rock. His band, The Skyrats were a band that was always on my "to see" list, while I never really bothered to attend any of their gigs. Every time that my friend would let me know where they were playing and how much it was, I'd often find myself saying "I'll be there," without ever actually making it. Eventually he informed me of a gig that I'd actually be 15 minutes travel away from on that specific night. Obviously, I decided to make an effort. His band was most amusing to see live, and I didn't regret attending at all. After checking out their set, I had a mosey to the merch table. That's where I found this release.

My friend was playing as an opening act for L.U.S.T.'s "First Tattoo" album launch, and considering the stickers and this demo CD were free give aways for anybody with a mood to grab it, I grabbed it. I didn't bother to stay for any of the bands that played after my mate's and quickly headed off for an entire night of pub drinking and general midnight shenanigans. It wasn't until about half a week later when I was finally home again and ripping new music to my computer that I finally took the time to check out this demo.

I was shocked. I was expecting cheesy, mediocre glam rock that wanted to be just like Nikki Sixx. Instead I got probably some of the best straight out punk rock I've heard in a long time. The lyrics were pretty simple, the demo opening to, "hey, you, fuck you!" But it was addictive. Catchy. Sexy and definitely enjoyable. There's really not much more to say about it than that, really.

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