SLUGNUT

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Member Since: 6/14/2005
Band Website: slugnut.com
Band Members: Keith Fairweather "Hackno" - Guitars / Backing Hacks,Nathan Harriss "Natan" - Bass/ Backing Growls,Jason Wheeler "Wheelz" - Drums / Lead Vox
Influences: Kreator, Discharge, D.R.I., Celtic Frost, Motorhead, C.O.C., The Ramones, Minor Threat, Cheap Trick, Blondie, Destruction, G.B.H., The Police, Napalm Death, Bathory, Dark Throne, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, The Cardigans, Melt Banana, KIX, Y&T, Black Sabbath, RATT, Sodom, Venom, Slayer, S.O.D. etc...
Sounds Like: ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------SLUGNUT ALL THE SPLENDOR AND ROT SELF-RELEASED LINKS: slugnut.comNorth Carolina trio Slugnut play the kind of crossover metal that was big in the early ‘90s, only with a more discernible nod to the death metal circuit. On the band’s 14-track sojourn into extreme heaviness, the breakneck pace of tracks like “Placenta Diablo” give off the impressions of Superjoint Ritual butting heads with Obituary, while the thrash metal riffing found on “Stranger Image” sounds like early COC clashing with Children of Bodom. If you’re looking for music that turns the energy of punk on its ear with a walloping, evil metal slant, and get into the sick grooves All The Splendor And Rot unfurls. ----Mike SOS

» Slugnut - All the Splendor and Rotby Matthew Kirshner, SMNnews.comAbout five different styles of extreme metal are ingrained within this group’s sensiblities: the manic thrashing of DRI and Sacred Reich, the thinking man’s stoner rock of Clutch and Eyehategod, the well-enunciated high pitch barks of Chuck Schuldiner and Mille Petrozza, the ball-swinging heft of Lamb of God and Black Label Society and the now-punk-now-metal fervor of Motorhead and Discharge. From this slumber party of seemingly unlikely bedfellows results a forthright and masterfully handled series of contradictions. In “Placenta Diablo,” an elephantine doom movement butts right up against an off-the-rails thrash section before settling into a mid-paced chug and then speeding out to an abrupt finish. If anything in Slugnut’s modus operandi would be ripe for quibbling, it would be that nearly all songs come and go in less than three minutes. It’s as if they brush aside ambitiousness in composition, hedging their bets with track lengths prone to immediate gratification. A band this dynamic need not fear stagnation, as every song is replete with unexpected turns and several clever ideas. Still, better to leave us, rather than the music itself, wanting more.Rating: 8/10 Website: www.slugnut.com Label: noneSlugnut- All The Splendor And Rot (slugnut.com) This Raleigh, North Carolina trio plays a nasty kick ya in the teeth brand of punk metal. All The Splendor And Rot brings back the days of when punks and metalheads first started banging their heads in unison at shows in the mid to late 80’s. Slugnut fuse the punk edge of 80’s thrash metal with the dark and acidic sound of 90’s death metal into a rabid aural assault. So if you think the current crop of "scary" bands with their Hot Topic gear on are evil sounding you ain’t heard shit. This is the kinda music that if you hear blasting outta some long hairs muscle car you walk by quickly and make no eye contact.
Record Label: Self-Produced
Type of Label: None