Continuing my crusade for Canadian readership and also shouting out to my Twitter followers, I bring you Prey For Us,
a two-song EP from Waster. Waster was one of the first bands to follow
me on Twitter and I’ve been excited to cover this morsel o’ metal from
the grand, icy North.
Based
in Winnipeg, Waster play bearded, denim-clad metal for people who have
never felt a hangover because they’ve never stopped drinking. While
their previous release Thunder Pit had heavy doses of Nashville Pussy’s raw-dogging punk and southern-fried sludge, the two songs on Prey For Us
focus slightly more on meaty, metallic riffing. Truth be told, Waster’s two newest
tracks could fool lifelong fans of Pantera that these were lost cuts
from The Great Southern Trendkill.
Nick Wiebe is Phil Anselmo’s vocal doppleganger, attacking the mic with
a brilliant performance. The Michael Fardoe/Harley Watt guitar tag-team
keep the songs storming forward with serious momentum, apart from a
slightly too-long harmonized bit of technical wizardry in the second
minute of the title track. “At War” rages from the seething opening
seconds to the final unaccompanied raspy scream, sneaking in bluesy
flourishes and anthemic melody. It’s the perfect closing track for an
EP: Concise, polished, and absolutely leaves the listener thirsty for
more beer-drenched metal. I’m definitely looking forward to their next
release, slated to kick our eager asses sometime in 2013.
I did notice that the Prey For Us
album cover has American dollars flapping around the horned disciple,
not Canadian. Not sure what they’re trying to say about the money in my
pocket, but open your own wallets over at their Bandcamp, as they have
both of their releases available as “Name Your Price” downloads: http://waster.bandcamp.com/album/prey-for-us
I
also wanted to say this review was also inspired by a friend from
Winnipeg who I met at the annual NYC Zombiecon. She’s currently hanging
out with medicine men and becoming enlightened and all that hippie shit,
but she laughs at my awful jokes sometimes so she’s not so bad I guess.
Hope you’re doing well over there, zombie comrade.
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