Album Reviews
Total Brutal
7.5
Austrian Death Machine is the side-project of As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis where he pays tribute to the world’s greatest action hero turned politician. Yes people, I’m talking about Ahnuld aka the Governator. And lemme say it’s about frigging time the man got some respect from the hardcore scene. After all he was the original tough guy and the most brutal of ‘em all. Especially in Conan The Barbarian! I mean, how many men do you know that can dress in a miniskirt and still look imposing? So fuck Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone and get ready for the Austrian Death Machine!
Every song on here is broohtal and fast, there’s plenty of chances to sing along, all of the lyrics are made up of quotes from various Schwarzenegger movies and every single song comes with a guitar solo. For those some friends were invited to pitch in including Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage), Jason Suecof (Trvium) and Mark Macdonald (Mercury Switch). Other than that Tim plays all of the instrument and used samples for the vocals before resorting to a friend of his who does a mean impersonation of Schwarzenegger so he couldn’t get sued for using the samples without permission.
The skits in between the songs are only fun to listen to once but the songs themselves are pretty damn enjoyable and manage to make me smile every single time. Especially “I Am A Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over ‘Metal) Endoskeleton” and “If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It”. Even if you’re not into As I Lay Dying, you might want to check this out!
Tom Dumarey
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
