Butcher Babies : "Eye For An Eye...Til the World is Blind"

This is a double album the band has released. Many of these songs have been dropping since 2020 with the song "Bottom of a Bottle' which is the second song on the 'Eye For an Eye" album. When these guys came out I appreciated the nipple tape, they claim had nothing to do with using sex to sell their image, but was a fuck you to the record industry. It seems the more clothes they wear they more they focus on songwriting. This is made clear with "Sleeping With the Enemy', which is hooky and as smartly written as any song that falls under this more commercial metal banner. I am still not sure why they have two singers, the way this album is produced it is hard to tell who is doing what . As the vocals are well layered, and screams often sit in the background to the more pop coated croon. 

"Bottom of a Bottle" is the same top tier songwriting that empowered the first song. Even their more middle of the road filler is till really well done, they proves themselves pretty capable merging pop with rock on "Last Dance". The slickness of production sounds great , but makes it hard for me to think of this as music that is heavy, since readers here know the bar is high for heavy hear since I cover death, black, doom and sludge metal here, along with grind core and hard core. So when compared to that even the more acidic roar of "It's Killin Time Baby!' does not hit as hard as what my ears are accustomed to, though I am sure, most of the kids who attended Rockville, would think of this as heavy. Based on these merits I will give this first album a 9. Lets see if they can hold up to that with "Til the World is Blind". 

Based on the intro piece this seems to be the album that "Eye For an Eye" is the companion ep for. The first song 'Red Thunder" should have been on the soundtrack for the last Thor movie. It capable for XM radio rock, but I think they handled pop tinged hard rock better on the companion ep. They do hit harder on "Backstreets of Tennessee" which feels more like Lamb of God. Wrong End of a Knife" wears their Slipknot influence on their sleeves. "Last December" is more of a ballad. I do like how it feels when the drums come in. They do not follow the power ballad formula. "Beaver Cage" feels more like nu metal meets Lords of Acid. The cover of Saweetie's "Best Friend" works. "I Fell Asleep at the Table" finds the girls showing that they did this before the current wave of Jingers. 

"This is the Part' is a duet with Mudvayne's Chad Gray .Sure every body sings fine on it, but that is about all there is to it. "Spittin Teeth" is the piss and vinegar you want from this band. It grooves and hooks you in while showing you melody is not a requirement. "King Pin" has a big dumb arena metal sound that works better than what Five Finger Death Punch normally does. There is a similar post- Pantera groove and hammering to "the Devil Cut Me Off". The title track has a darker brooding than I expected. It works really well and is one of the album's stronger songs. Sadly "Don't Touch My Pole" is just some fucked up drunken message, I thought it might be a twerking metal anthem, but this album already has a few of those. I will give this a 9 as well, meaning they are cranking it out better than the bulk of their peers.