CD Reviews – Leaders And Liars Billybio

There are many musicians on the market who may moderately be described as a pressure of nature, however few of them make music as naturally forceful, and subsequently as convincing, as Billy Graziadei. Whether or not as co-frontman with BIOHAZARD or as six-string foil to Sen Canine in POWERFLO, the New Yorker all the time performs it like he means it, whereas writing songs that search to untangle a few of life’s thorniest points. In idea, BILLYBIO is a solo mission, however as with 2018’s “Feed The Hearth” debut, the good man’s second declaration of independence punches, snarls and spits with the identical sweat-drenched, street-bound depth that has knowledgeable nearly all of his greatest work. Backed by a formidable line-up that features SUICIDAL TENDENCIES bassist Roberto Diaz and THE EXPLOITED guitarist Robbie Davidson, “Leaders And Liars” is Graziadei‘s lockdown response, and rarely has anybody sounded extra determined to get on the market and sweat blood for actual.

Opener “Black Out” is a sluggish, heavy and simple start line, with our hero in full street-corner polemic mode, and a few of the hookiest thrash riffs Graziadei has written in a long time. Therein lies the important thing to “Leaders And Liars”: the previous few years have plainly centered his thoughts and enabled him to include all of his most cherished musical parts into one ferocious, streamlined entire. Lengthy-time followers can be shortly sated by all of the quick, quick metallic hardcore moments and the bursts of feral punk rock, however that is as a lot a gritty however stressed metallic file as it’s the rest. The truth is, there’s a world of distinction between the thuggish beatdown grooves of “Fallen Empires” and the snotty, street-punk clatter of the title monitor, however every thing flows superbly, glued tight along with Graziadei‘s seemingly ageless spirit of defiance.

With 15 songs in 48 minutes, “Leaders And Liars” is all motion and cheerfully bereft of brakes. “Misplaced Horizon” and “One Life To Reside” are frantic crossover beat-’em-ups, customized constructed to incite riots in any venue. “Flip The Wounds” is a darkish and moody curveball, tinged with the shadow of doom and the grim throb of commercial. “Technology Kill” is half alt-metal anthem, half hardcore freakout. “Sufficient” is a satisfyingly savage metal-punk throwback; nearer “Cyanide” blends huge melodies with even larger riffs and a smattering of warped electronics. By some means, all of it is sensible and all of it sounds unmistakably just like the work of that irrepressible chap from BIOHAZARD. The scary factor is, he appears to be getting much more passionate and energetic because the years go by.



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