Imagine Rancid, Backyard Babies, The Stooges and Van Halen drunk on sake. That is the Electric Eel Shock sound on any given day. Do The Metal (and its accompanying B-sides) is effortlessly "don't give a f**k, let's have fun and rock 'n' roll."
Why the hell hasn't this Japanese three-piece made it big? (Well I guess that's the answer.) How have The Darkness got away with it? Fair enough these guys don't do ballads or pillage Spinal Tap's wardrobe (Tokyo chic thank you very much), but with songs titles like Japanese Meets Chinese In The USA and I Wanna Be A Black Sabbath Guy But Should Be a Black Bass they should at least get some credit.
F**k it. It's fast, it's dirty, it's got ridiculous '80s guitar shagging solos, menacingly infectious hooks, and a great frontman - Aki Morimoto is Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (The Hives) cut with any '80s trash metal frontman you can think of - though he doesn't look it of course. At times more laughably juvenile than The Darkness, at times better than them. Thoroughly recommended.
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