DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth!

What's with all these Swedish bands trying to get the most painful sound as possible out of their guitars? More often than not they resemble blenders and totally kill the listening experience. Well, if you thought Dismember's Death Metal was bad, To Ride Straight... will do much of the same... leave you with a splitting headache.

I downloaded this expecting something along the line of Wolverine Blues... and eh, I suppose there are some traces of the style played on WB, but with a hollow, hardcore approach that forsakes many of the grooves that made WB so badass. Still death'n'roll, but more death than roll, if that makes any sense at all. Songs like "Like This With the Devil" and "Wound" are cool, but not really inspired.

LG's voice is still raw as a frozen ham, one of the only things that I dig about To Ride Straight.. is his voice. Asides from that, a pretty lame album. Wolverine Blues and Morning Star are way better.