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Pissing Razors

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As it has been said before, Pissing Razors, Skinlab, and Pantera are - basically - the only true heavy metal bands left in the music world, and I could not agree with that more. Pissing Razor's self titled debut has both its share of good and bad, but is a great album non-the-less. With Joe Rodiguez's stellar vocals, Matt Lynch's excellent guitar shredding, and production from the immaculate Andy Sneap (Skinlab). Pissing Razors has taken the riffs of old school metal and fused it with new school bass lines to create a great example of heavy metal in its purest form. Though it does contain some - for lack of a better term - bad moments (the intro to "Life of a Lunatic" and the whole of the terrible "Silent Hatred" - Joey C.'s rapping (yes, rapping) is absolutely dreadful and ruins a great riff) but the good out weighs the bad. Even though I thought 'Where We Come From' and 'Fields of Disbelief' were much better than this, "Permanent" is tied with "Burning Bridges" for the best Pissing Razors song. Also, "For What it's Worth" and "Tortured" are two excellent tracks (not to mention the cools-as-hell interlude "Sounds (of Doom)"). All in all, I have to recommend this to anybody who loves heavy metal.

If you like this, I would definitely recommend their latest album, "Where We Come From" (not the song on this album), to everybody, it dwarfs this.

I followed the band since they started playing at a local bar in their home town, El Paso, Tx. Eversince, I knew the boys had talent...This CD will be a a deep-down dirty reality check of what music is all about...The intensity of this record will knock you of the face of the earth...Be introduced to real talent and originality!

This is just insanely vicious, violent, and insane. Their sound has a few rough edges compared to Cast Down The Plague and Fields of Deceit, but it still deserves 5 stars becuase songs like "Tortured", "Life Of A Lunatic", and "Season To Die" deliver the hardcore guitar violence that fans of Pissing Razors have come to expect. This CD set a precedent for Pissing Razors that has never been undercut or compromised.

Very cool, hard core rythum guitar hooks. My favorites are "Tortured" and "Where We Come From". The singer's voice is the perfect counterpart to the wall of guitars too. All that I can say is that listening to this disc has me good and ready to go out and raise hell! These dudes are poised for world domination.

Why aren't these guys up there with fear factory? Pissing razors are truly one of todays best metal bands. Every single song is awesome, except "sounds" because it's not actually a song, you'll see for yourself when you buy this album because I know you will. In my opinion I'd say they mostly sound like fear factory without the industrial sounds. The lead singer has a deep voice and he sometimes harmonizes his voice much like Burton C. Bell. This drummer is incredibly talented, he even wrote every song! If you like this album I would strongly reccommend you checking out substAnce d, who are also signed to Noise records and sound alot like the razors.

Pissing Razors rely heavily on the monster grooves that are created by the triumvirate of power formed from the fusion of the bass, drums, and guitar. Picture a river of burning hot lava pouring from the speakers of your stereo system, and you'll have a fairly accurate portrait of the "Pissing Razors' sound". Heavy? Absolutely. Confrontational? Have you ever seen a stream of lava with friendly intentions? And when you throw in the final element of impenetrable density, you have an unstoppable force coming your way. In other words, this thick, powerful, unstoppable force is exactly the right prescription for the half-hearted approach of top 40 radio fodder. This is a Heavy Metal band, and you better just deal with it.

This is an excellent debut album from an intense and aggressive outfit. There are obvious similarities to bands such as Pantera, FF and Machine Head at times, but this band definitely has its own sound and identity. Dodging Bullets, Tortured and Desperado are some of the tracks that stand out (to me anyway) but World Of Deceit is THE song on this CD. The band has some great riffs, a cool rumbling bass sound and fantastic drumming.

pissing razors is a must. i have seen them 2 times. the band is nice. its very heavy and hard. eddy can ripe a asshole on the drums. joe has a great voice. if you love pantera and fear factory u must get pissing razors.

The tone of the bass, and the way the drums are mixed can sound like Pantera at times. The vocalist reminds me a bit of Vision of Disorder. I ganked the MP3 of this cd, and burned it. I liked it so much, I went out and bought it. GREAT grooves, nice production on the guitars and drums, overall production is excellent. Buy this.

Who cares if their sound is similar to Fear Factory and if they sound like Pantera. Pissing Razors are a very heavy band, and this album is up there with the likes of Roots-Sepultura, etc.