Open Fire - Alabama Thunderpussy

This year's release from those southern-fried proponents of beer-chugging, bar-room-brawl metal Alabama Thunderpussy is probably the best they've ever done, emerging slightly higher in its repetitive, derivative, dead-horse sound than their earlier efforts that sounded pretty much the same. As mainstream metal divided in the early nineties, the absurdly overrated Pantera popularised their brand of angry and dirty Texan groove metal, essentially an off-shoot of eighties thrash that slowed things down and replaced its interesting guitars with some pinchy squeaks, and attracted a legion of loyal, obnoxious, angry fans as well as a crowd of imitators. While the best was ...