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The Open Casket
Worst Case Scenario (Mortville Records)
In these troubled times, any band capable of waxing a cohesive 12-pack
of slobber punk broadsides in just six hours warrants further
investigation. Enter the Open Casket, a thrift-driven local trio led by
onetime Motard Toby Marsh alongside brothers Chris and Mike Dempsey on
bass and drums, respectively. Harnessing the hammer-down swagger of the
Dead Boys crossed with a goofball sci-fi/horror aesthetic, Worst Case
Scenario skips the groundbreaking in favor of unadulterated
exploitation. Opener "Bend Over" finds Marsh seizing the spotlight by
bellowing the teenage riot act to a laundry list of haters. "Black
& White Fuzz" detours into radioactive William Castle territory
before ending prematurely on a genre-bucking fade out. Somewhere
between the two-part "Cellar Walls" and "Torture Chamber," the Casket
even manages a garage-minted nod to domesticity on "Happy Anniversary."
When the world is running down, fry up a meatless skillet of Hamburger
Helper and crank this until the neighbors blink.
BY GREG BEETS |
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Mortville Records |
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