If music could kill, there would be a five-day waiting period to purchase Drowningman's Rock And Roll Killing Machine. Their second and definitive full length, Rock And Roll Killing Machine finds Drowningman at the height of their powers combining complexity and diversity with engaging songwriting. Technical math-based beatings give way to swelling, emotional, driving rock segues all pinned down with some of the most bizarre and disturbing lyrical themes found on a modern hardcore record. A collection of nine anthems to sharpen knives to, given names that make sense only to singer Simon Brody and his court appointed psychologist, Rock And Roll Killing Machine more than lives up to it's title. Although Brody's angelic-to-demonic vocal shifts, Javin Leonard and Matt Roy's dual guitar mind-fucks, and the dexterous displays by the rhythm section of Joe Villemaire and David Barnett, clearly evidence new levels of technical musicianship for Drowningman- it's the brute fury and apparent emotion of their delivery that finds this band at a new level. Recorded by indie producer extraordinaire, Brian McTernan, the pre-production of this record was plagued with technical difficulties. The fatalities: two analog tape machines, one fifteen passenger van, and the fragile psyches of five already unstable band members. Combine these elements in excruciating, early summer D.C. heat, fix everything and set five guys who have given up on personal hygiene and attack anything that makes sudden movements loose in the studio and you might get something that sounds a lot like Rock And Roll Killing Machine. If Drowningman IS The Rock And Roll Killing Machine, many have already been crushed in the tracks of the juggernaut since their spring tour with the Dillinger Escape Plan and subsequent missions of debauchery and sonic punishments throughout the Northeast and Canada this summer. Renowned for a live show that fills the air thick with saliva, blood and generally unkind words, Drowningman promise to bring it to a stage near you across the US this fall. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Rock And Roll Killing Machine and there is no off switch.
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