{"id":23101,"date":"2014-10-06T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=23101"},"modified":"2015-01-14T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:34:05","slug":"album-review-acid-drinkers-25-cents-for-a-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-acid-drinkers-25-cents-for-a-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"ACID DRINKERS – 25 Cents For A Riff (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACID DRINKERS
25 Cents For A Riff<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMystic Production (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When Poland\u2019s Acid Drinkers released their debut album Are You A Rebel?<\/em> back in 1990, I for one didn\u2019t think they would carve out a 25-year career covering some 16 full-length releases, two EPs, a couple of singles and a brace of videos.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that Acid Drinkers is an underrated yet highly prolific act which in reality is responsible for some of the best thrash metal I\u2019ve heard over the decades. <\/p>\n

These guys span the spectrum of groove metal and chunky thrash metal, and also take in influence from punk, Mot\u00f6rhead and traditional metal. They are without boundaries within their field, because as a crossover act they have somehow churned out cool, infectious album after cool, infectious album and this new slab of dirty metal is no exception. Twelve bruising, catchy-as-hell numbers which stick in the head and provide instant satisfaction and reek of cult. <\/p>\n

Of course, what helps in regards to ingredients is that three of the members have been with the band since the 80s. Titus (aka Tomasz Pukacki) has that grizzled growl which gives the sound extra punch, but you feel that this guy is capable of any vocal style, transcending the limits of thrash, hardcore, punk, doom and industrial. That\u2019s where I\u2019d put the volatile sound of Acid Drinkers; a riveting hybrid of Corrosion Of Conformity, Bad Brains, Monster Magnet, Mot\u00f6rhead, White Zombie, Testament, Slayer<\/a> and just about everything else in-between. In a sense it\u2019s simple, but bringing with it the same cauldron of versatility as fellow cult metal heroes and general bruising nobodies Agony Column. <\/p>\n

From the off its brilliant chunky riffage you cannot argue with; the opening title track is a ravenous stomp of rattling percussion and somehow commercially bruising riffage where Titus becomes akin to a demonically possessed James Hetfield (Metallica) as he slurs over a simple yet crushing percussive slab and rhythmic pummel. It\u2019s the sort of thrash metal masterpiece that one is left scratching their head over, because surely all this stuff was written and exhausted by 1991 and yet Acid Drinkers is a peculiar blend of psychedelic Black Sabbath<\/a> and war-torn thrash bestiality before pulling out further weaponry for the groove-metal hip-hop slam of \u2018Me\u2019 with the samples of \u201cdisgusting\u201d resonating through the ears.<\/p>\n

This time Titus takes on a hostile squawk as the flailing guitars of Popcorn (aka Dariusz Popowicz) and Jankiel (aka Wojciech Moryto) carve out some sort of swampy backwoods stomp, hinting at the more primitive thrash aspects of early White Zombie, only delivered with more animosity and coolness. And there\u2019s no lull in this odd procession; \u2018God Hampered His Life\u2019 is a pure thrash juggernaut of hyper-speed, while \u2018Don\u2019t Drink Evil Things\u2019 with its percussive introductory roll is majestic yet oily rock \u2019n\u2019 roll fury of the highest order. <\/p>\n

Acid Drinkers take on the guise of doom metal gods; sun-blessed yet speckled with rain, they have mastered a drunken anthem that only Sabbath could have dreamed up and made sound so evil. \u2018Chewed Alive\u2019 is another of those rusty, churning beast of a thrash-doom number and \u2018Not By Its Cover\u2019 follows suit, again hinting at Corrosion Of Conformity at its best with a dash of Pantera too. This is where Acid Drinkers is at; a ploughing, pummelling, pulverising yet strangely thrashing psychedelic stoned bag of bloody stones to dig graves by.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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