It was March ’14 when our ears were introduced to the
savagely groovy metal riffs on Manchester, England’s, PIST, with their debut EP
Riffology, in our New Band To Burn One To section, and it’s with great joy that
the long awaited release of their debut album captures everything that we first
loved about the band: brutal, drink infused riffs, husky, angered vocals, and a
percussion section that leaves you moshing around every dark, beat-down dive
you’ll find these guys demolishing.
The aptly named Rhythm & Booze record kicks off with
what will soon be regarded as the band’s trademark sound on the track ‘Shitstorm’:
a compact amalgamation of razor riffs played along a fuzzy metallic edge,
pounding drums, and a screaming vocalist that wants to rip your face apart
while at the same time pouring a beer down your neck and partying till dawn. ‘Dirt
on Me’ is fucking brutal! It’s perfect party music for you and your
stoner/metal/rock friends to smash beer cans together and through each other
round in the party to end all, well, weekends. The one thing you cannot say
about PIST is that they don’t give it everything they’ve got, because they do,
and then chuck in the last of the drip tray too. ‘Detached’ has riffs that make
your guts curdle, teetering between sludge and metal, all the while keeping a
Southern Rock styling, which can be strange to hear from lads from a northern
city in England.
PIST aren’t just about drinking, fighting, fucking, and
partying (although if they were that’d be enough) they’re also great
songwriters and musicians, raining in their animalistic instincts to create
solid songs that form a well-rounded record, and not just a long onslaught of
noise over belching.
As the record closes with the delightfully named ‘Cunt
Lip’ and ‘Chunder’, you soon realise that the eighth beer you’ve somehow
managed to down in one has made you aware of the hairy dude across the bar, who
is eyeing up your woman and is calling you a pussy, and that he wants to brawl,
and that everyone in the room is up for a good old punch up, and you let
yourself go into the flow of the night’s brutality. This is all come about
through Rhythm & Booze, and it was worth it. You can thank PIST for your
black eye!
Rhythm & Booze is out now through When Planets Collide.
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