Pulling Teeth – Paranoid Illusions | Paranoid Delusions
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I love late night talk radio. I actually used to not be able to sleep without it. AM, pirate, community, public and college radio all usually have better programming at night. Mainly because less people are listening so they can focus on a niche easier. All the punk shows are at night.
My personal favorite is not a music program but a talk show. Coast To Coast AM. There are some colorful characters on that program let me tell you. People who believe in lizard people and airplanes dispersing chemicals over large cities that alter weather and control the population. But the main host George Noory gives everyone a chance even if they are obviously making things up or clearly crazy.
I bring all this up merely because of the album artwork and lyrics show themes of conspiracy theories. Federal Reserve, Illuminati/New World Order/Bilderberger, and other various dissatisfaction with overseers is employed throughout Pulling Teeth’s artwork and through their lyrics as well. These are the theories I’d say with the most hard hard evidence for their existence and I applaud Pulling Teeth for bring light to these things which most people wouldn’t give a second thought. There seems to be a degree of complacency throughout these parts but Pulling Teeth is probably taking the most overt stand compared to all the bro love posi-core bands out these days.
But what about the music you say? Well, for starters, it’s heavy in that Neurosis sort of way, but then it will be driving old school hardcore ala Poison Idea, then it will turn around on you and go all Mogwai on you and then do something more akin to Slayer.
All of that stuff above sure makes it sound really sloppy like a no-talent math rock band. But it’s all very cohesive and thought out. The genre switching never feels weird and you can even understand the vocals when you follow along with the lyrics. All in all I feel it’s a must have for 2009 and proves once again, that you can’t go wrong with Deathwish Inc bands.
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http://www.deathwishinc.com/listennow/launch/52/
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October 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 am
Thanks for the interesting post. I really liked the sample you posted from them. I look forward to reading more from you in the future.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:42 am
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