Whut da fuck is up Oklahoma? Not the first grooving slam grind I have heard, but is is amusing when these sorts of bands flirt with hip-hop and nu-metal. At least they care about songwriting even if the gurgled growls of the vocals are one-dimensional. To fully grasp what was happening regarding the hip hop elements being used I watched a clip of their performance as Soun & Fury in California. Was this a rapper who could growl or did someone else come on stage for these parts. The answer was the rapped vocals are all backing tracks, and the vocalist was more of a hype man whose gutturals live sounded like shit. However, in the studio, they used all the technology to their advantage and a song like "Perc 3000" is a great deal of mindless fun.
By the time we get to "Full of Lead" I am going to need a little more dynamics from these guys so let's see if they deliver. It's more of an interlude and "Skin Blunt" which uses more samples feels more like the song. The guitarists in this band are the saving grace as everyone else aside from their vocalist clocks in and gets the job done. The growl vocals are just a human layer and wait til you hear how bad they are live, I wish I had not heard that before reviewing their album, but in some ways I am glad I did hear past the studio smoke and mirrors. "the Fuckening" feels like they are beginning to run out of creative gas.
The title track finds the use of samples as the only thing different from all the other bands doing this sort of thing, the blasting does not help things either. There is a more purposeful hard-core vocal in place that works better. Matti Way from Disgorge lends his voice to "Creepin Out Da Cut". He brings a less gurgled roar. The last song is supposed to be an outro but has one of the album's best riffs , go figure, after hearing how much love these guys need from the studio and samples, I am going to give this album an 8, which is still better than I thought it was going to be. It's the "Ju Ju on Da Beat" of Slam.
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