{"id":20353,"date":"2012-06-04T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=20353"},"modified":"2013-02-05T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:10:06","slug":"davey-suicide-davey-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2012\/davey-suicide-davey-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Davey Suicide | Davey Suicide<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mark Allen<\/span>
\nStaff Writer —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Post-industrial meets hard rock meets sleaze-metal in an expectations-exceeding mash-up on this debut from rock \u2018n\u2019 roll insurgent Davey Suicide. The press release refers to him as \u201ca rebel raging through town with distortion blaring, middle finger in the air, girls dropping their panties, and flames everywhere.\u201d It\u2019d be a nice piece of flamboyant hyperbole\u2026 except it\u2019s true. Well, except for the girls dropping their panties. And the flames. Maybe Suicide can get the girls to drop their panties into the flames, \u2018cause that would be cool as hell\u2026<\/p>\n

Seriously, regardless of whatever hype his publicist is trying to push, Davey Suicide\u2019s debut is a hard rock force to be reckoned with. While Suicide is not the first to try this style \u2014 Shotgun Messiah crossbred industrial with hair metal way back in \u201893 \u2014 he is among the first to inject it with this many hooks and arena-ready anthems. This album is one quarter White Zombie, one quarter Nine Inch Nails, one quarter Guns N\u2019 Roses, and one quarter \u201880s hard rock. On paper, it\u2019s an amalgam that sounds like it should be an epic failure, but sonically it works amazingly well.<\/p>\n

Davey is gifted with a great metal voice, graced with grit that never goes to gravel, somewhere between Tim Skold and Rob Zombie. In keeping with industrial tropes, he sometimes electronically mechanizes his vocals but never to the point of distraction (unless you cannot stomach anything with an industrial edge, in which case you are advised to avoid this album anyway). His vocals have that Axl Rose gutter-rat sneer and all the angry-at-the-world attitude you can ask for. <\/p>\n

Proof of this can readily be found in the band\u2019s first single, \u201cGeneration Fuck Star,\u201d an anthem of disillusionment that burns with enough renegade attitude to make Trent Reznor seem happy-go-lucky. And yet, beyond the ballsy guitars and slamming drums is a song about self-empowerment: \u201cGeneration Fuck Star \/ The lost have found their way \/ Revenge will have its day \/ Cross your heart \/ We confide \/ Put your trust in Suicide.\u201d Accuse him of lyrical ego-masturbation if you must, but Davey delivers his trademark rebel anthem with sincere conviction.<\/p>\n

This is an intense album from start to finish, thrashing you with pummeling power chords while the drums hit you like body blows from an anvil-fisted prizefighter. But throughout the course of the crunchily corrosive chaos, Davey never loses sight of those crucial hooks. This is one of those rare albums that is musically vicious and super-catchy at the same time. It pulls no punches, but your ears will welcome the smack-down.<\/p>\n

That said, Davey is not all serious all the time; he\u2019s more than willing to aim below the waist now and again. \u201cHustler Queen\u201d lays down a raunchy groove with lyrics to match, using gang vocal \u201cHey-hey-heys!\u201d to drive the sexy home. \u201cUncross Your Legs\u201d channels the spirit of Nine Inch Nails while delivering lines that would make Reznor vomit: \u201cI\u2019m just the devil \/ You can call me Cupid \/ I\u2019ll rock your world \/ And you\u2019re not that stupid.\u201d And what to make of \u201cUnholywood Killafornia\u201d with lyrics like \u201cAll the ladies want to fuck \/ So grab your crucifix\u201d? Religion meets sleaze\u2026now that\u2019s different.<\/p>\n

Davey Suicide is one of the best surprises of 2012. He brings bitterness, bombast, and badass in equal measure and whips it into an industrialized metal concoction that hits the ears hard and yet is commercially easy to digest despite the vitriol and venom. He may sport an incisive moniker, but Davey Suicide is one heavy rocker that won\u2019t make you want to self-terminate after you give his music a spin.<\/p>\n

Genre: Hard Rock, Post-Industrial, Glam, Sleaze<\/p>\n

Band:
\nDavey Suicide (vocals)
\nFrankie Sil (bass, backup vocals)
\nBen Graves (drums)
\nEric Grifin (guitars)
\nNeedlz (keyboards, programming, backup vocals)<\/p>\n

Track Listing
\n1. Cross Your Heart
\n2. Generation Fuck Star
\n3. Sick Suicide
\n4. Hustler Queen
\n5. Uncross Your Legs
\n6. Unholywood Killafornia
\n7. In My Chest Is a Grave
\n8. Kids in America
\n9. One More Night
\n10. Professor Asshole
\n11. Grab a Gun & Hide Your Morals
\n12. Fallacies
\n13. God Head Killers
\n14. I\u2019ll Take a Bullet For You<\/p>\n

Label: Standby Records<\/p>\n

Webpage: www.daveysuicide.tumblr.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Hardrock Haven rating: 9\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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