Darrow Chemical Company - Plastic Smile

This, without question, is the best release of 2013! I mean, it is just perfect! When you look at the band's past two releases, they are great but, this is the one where all songs are destined to become classics. If we were speaking in terms of Metallica, this would be Darrow's Master of Puppets. Fan funded through an Indigogo campaign by a bunch of guys who have had tenders in Mister Monster, Blitzkid, Doomsday Prophecy, Gotham Road and the Michale Graves band, they know what they are doing! "He Said, She Said" is a great song, "Better Dead Than Wed" although a re-recording from Nightmare sounds meatier and heavier, "The Dead Don't Rise" is a great fun song about Return of the Living Dead and of course "W.H.B.". That song, although probably not intended to be, has become an anthem for all horror kids and misfits! The chorus of wahoooooooo and the lyrics harking back to a youthful time just speaks to people. J.V. take a bow, you wrote a song that will last for generations. If you have this release, you know what I'm talking about and, if you don't you need a copy now!