Fuck the Facts - Backstabber Etiquette
Since I recently reviewed Fuck the Facts' Stigmata High-Five, I thought I'd revisit 2002's Backstabber Etiquette. If Stigmata is a well-oiled machine, then Backstabber is a crazy, unhinged beast. This is the band's first album with Mel Mongeon, and while she doesn't have the control she has now, her vocals here are amazingly feral.The songs on Backstabber are spastic as hell. "Ballet Addict" has awesomely twitchy riffs, while the chords and dynamics in the middle of "The Burning Side" bring to mind "The Call of Ktulu"! Grindcore is the foundation, but the band takes frequent detours through technical death metal, prog weirdness, and random samples and bits of dialogue. Two fuzzed-out ambient interludes help break up the already broken-up album. Dillinger who?
The production is thin, but that only adds to the music's manic intensity. This is one of those albums you put on after a hard day when you just want to annihilate everything. Pick this up
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I'm excited that I'm actually going to get to see this band play in Seattle a week from Sunday. 99% of metal shows here are at a place impossible to go to without a car, but Fuck the Facts are playing a cheap 4pm matinee with local black metal band Book of Black Earth at a tiny bar called the Sunset Tavern. I'm hoping that the allure of a female singer will get my girlfriend out to witness her first grindcore band.
I get this image of a toy set (like the Metallica and Kiss ones) - "My First Grindcore Band (TM)" How strange, a day show for the band. I bet they'll bring the ruckus, though. I'm curious as to how it goes.
The sad fucking postscript to this is that the show was actually this past Sunday and I didn't go because Seattle was treated to snow and ice and I flaked on it. I will, though, be buying their new record.
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