Bullet INC – Atomic Dive Bar
by Tim Wenger
Bullet INC hits hard and close to home with their new album Atomic Dive Bar. Using the slogan “Learn to Love The Bomb,” the band presents a collection of tracks that seems to challenge the passive/aggressive attitude of mankind. “As the last one drops, a hush falls over the earth/ … You just sat on your ass/And listened to the news broadcast,” cries vocalist Joe Morency on “How I Learned to Love The Bomb,” the album’s toughest-hitting number.
The production on the album highlights the heavily distorted palm mutes and squealing solos that guitarist James Thatcher uses to define the band’s sound, a perfect accompaniment to their sarcastic cynicism and archetypal Punk-Rock style. At a couple of points during my initial listen I was reminded of Guttermouth, only to be slapped in the face by Morency’s seemingly fatalistic seriousness, realizing that maybe we are “going the way of the birds when it’s cold.”
The album flies by, I listened to it at least three times right off the bat. The music is intense but never loses the fun appeal that the ’90s So-Cal sound gave to Punk Rock. Bullet INC confronts the listener with classic Punk-Rock manner, daring them to think and rallying together an army of rockers to bid a “farewell-to-arms and all they could have been.”
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Category: What's Up?, A-Sides
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