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I agree. You can bang your head to a lot of the stuff on Fools—largely due to the rhythm section—but Hoffmann and guitarist Nate Perry indulge their love of tunefulness and dual guitar leads in a way that makes Bible of the Devil’s previous albums seem bashful. There’s a lot of Thin Lizzy in the hooks and even more in the dual leads, and on “Anytime” Hoffmann’s attempt to sound like Phil Lynott crosses an odd line so that he actually sounds like Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, a band that approaches the platonic ideal of rock qua rock.
Bible of the Devil plays a record-release party Sat 4/28 at Ultra Lounge. Superchrist, one of several projects fronted by local underground metal hero Chris Black, share the bill—and they’re celebrating the release of Holy Shit (Hells Headbangers), an album similarly indebted to melodic, shred-friendly 80s metal.
Piotrowski is selling the Full Moon Hysteria package only at shows (he’s got one at a DIY space on Wed 4/25—e-mail gasmaskhorse1@clear.net for details). And any day now he plans to start offering another Gas Mask Horse product. He’s calling it “scaryaki,” and it’s a teriyaki sauce made with the fiendishly spicy bhut jolokia—better known as ghost peppers.
