Customer Reviews

Head for the Shallow

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Yes, it's Jared & Coady, and yes it's very good. Very loud and rockin'. Basically it's a 2-piece (bass & drums) as a live band...but for this recording, they got some backing guitar help from several sources (one being Dave from THE SHINS I believe). This record will have your head bobbing and your fist punching the air. One part guilty pleasure, and one part warm & cozy feeling. This album leaves me longing for the days when MC DEVILS and KARP both ruled the Pacific Northwest, as well the gaining a large cult following around the U.S. and eventually the world well past their demise. And while they have yet to do a massive tour through the states (they've done quick excursions on the East & West Coasts), they will be everywhere very very soon. For those fortunate enough to see them already, certainly they were not disappointed...

I could go on and on...just check them. You'll be convinced.

This is heavy music the way it's meant to be played. It's somewhat hard to believe that it's only 2 guys creating all this racket. This is bone-breaking sludge of epic proportions. Recommended to fans of Melvins, Mastodon, and High On Fire. Buy it now. I can't wait to hear them team up with King B and Dale C.

Amazing, the Melvins are an easy but apt comparison. Also Federation X or a less Southern-fried version of Tight Bros from Way Back When (interesting name award). An awesome album in any case. Do yourself a favor . . .

A wall of sound. Just pummeling low end with vocals that sound like the Melvins. Soo great. This is just sludgy, heavey Seattle rock for the new millenium. And pretty damn catchy too in its own way. Fell in love with this at first listen. Why aren't bands like THIS getting on the radio?

Another rock duo of the excessively onslaughtering kind, BB should appeal to fans in the stoner-rock subgenre, offering upbeat contrast to much of its kind, but running out of creative steam to sustain a whole album, instead offering some great ideas amongst amplified repetitions.

I bought this album AFTER buying the band's second full-length, Here Come the Waterworks. This album does not have one track that is anything less than total all-out assault on the ears. Coady is one of the best drummers I have EVER seen live. This album is pure energy and smashmouth thrash metal. I would compare it in some respects to Helmet's Strap It On, another one of my all-time favorite albums, and bands.

This is very similar to the Melvins or High on Fire, but with more of an American soul (not that Melvins and High on Fire aren't pure American Hessians). Great song writing with catchy vocals.
The thrashing heavily distorted bass drones at about 200 beats a minute, very very fast. After buying the new Sepultura, and Mastodon, I knew I was looking for something with vocals more blues-influenced. And then I remembered how impressed I was with Big Business, bought Head for the Shallow, and man this album rocks! I've been listening to it over and over for weeks. With just two members, I'd say they're twice as potent as all 4 Melvins.

I first heard Big Business when they played live with High on Fire. It was killer! They were terrific! A two-piece, bass and drums, with the bass-player thundering passionate and soulful vocals. This is a very live band.

This is as close to Motorhead as you'll get without Lemmy.

Cover artwork is lame lame lame, but you'll want the lyrics, because the lyrics are a little bit unintelligible with all the tonal range the vocalist covers...his vocals are a whole metal opera by themselves.

Know for a fact I saw this band open for the Melvins not very long ago. Their style is probably considered, by most to be in the 'aggressive hardcore' direction. Not exactly my cup of tea, but okay to check out. Several of these tracks tend to sound a bit too similar. But I thought "O.G", the in-your-ugly-*ss-mug "White Piz Azz" and "Off Off Broadway" were decent. Line-up: Jared Warren-bass&vocals, John Devoy-guitar and Coady Willis-drums. Just might appeal to some fans of Murder City Devils, Rocket From The Crypt, Blackout Pact and Pretty Girls Make Graves.

This record is straight-out sick and heavy. Saw them live before I knew anything about them, and the live show was unreal, so much power for only a 2-piece. This album does not disappoint.

I still like this. The singer really reminds me of King Buzzo. This is totally stoner rock. A little monotanous though.