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Band
Eighteen Wheels Burning
Title
Tweak'd Out, Strung Up and Redlined
Type
LP/EP
Company
Meteor City
YOR
2008
Style
Doom/Stoner
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5/5/2009 - Review by: Kim Thore

Eighteen Wheels Burning
Tweak'd Out, Strung Up and Redlined

Company: Meteor City
Release: 2008
Genre: Stoner
Reviewer: Strutter

  • Lack of focus and slipshod arrangements



    • Some things from Staten Island, NY are memorable: the ferry, great views of Manhattan and David Johansen. The rock/metal/jam band, Eighteen Wheels Burning, however is ...well not so much.

    One can appreciate an amalgam of musical styles but some things are not meant to be put together and "Tweak'd Out, Strung Up and Redlined" demonstrates this for ten tracks. Redlined it is, as the musical tachometer is so far to the right that all the listener gets is a piercing sound and rhythmic rpms. Granted, Eighteen Wheels Burning deserves points for energy but the lack of focus and slipshod arrangements that comes with it, leaves one at a loss.

    If this is where the stoner rock scene is headed, someone needs to turn this rig around.


    • 1 :REVIEW COUNT
      2.5 :AVE RATING

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    COMPANY
    		 REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
    Tweak'd Out, Strung Up and Redlined
    2008
    Meteor City
    		Kim Thore5/5/2009
    2.5

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