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Reviews
Somehow, these Oakland stalwarts elude category like I avoid work - with style and stealth. There's elements of Nor Cals best - Neuroisis mood rock, Bay Area thrash stylings, but it I had to draw close comparisons, it'd have to be Tool's heavier moments. Streamlined, clean, introspective and progressive. Scorched-Earth Policy voice is the very capable and emotive Richard Perot. Whom, if the B&W photo does him any justice, looks like a tattooed and deranged Elvis Costello. The dude can emote like nobody's bizness and I wish they'd have covered "Alison" instead of Neal Young's "Don't Let it Bring You Down". But I realize that I can't always get what I want. But I try sometimes. And I get what I need. Aside from Mark Lamb's and Carlos Santiago's clean Escher-like angular riffs, drummer Lance Lea is amazing. There is a drum section in the very heavy "Oblong" that is incredible. Unfortunately I can't tell you the name of the drums he's using because I'm no musician and I have a hard time even remembering where I put my keys from minute to minute. Suffice it to say, the guy rules. They've
gotten some good exposure in national and international metal rags (Metal
Maniacs, Terrorizer, Ill Literature, Unrestrained, Kerrang!.... wait,
that really isn't a metal rag. Anymore) so I predict that it's a matter
of time before Scorched-Earth Policy get warped onto the Relapse mothership.
Let's hope. Great band with some unique chops, they deserve some success.
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Moody,
complex, intricate and heavy. That's some of the words I'd enlist in describing
Scorched Earth Policy.
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