Album Reviews

Deathwish has already been the go to label when it comes to nasty as fuck hardcore and with Lewd Acts’ “Black Eye Blues” they’ve got another winner. This southern California outfit starts opener “Know Where To Go” off with the lines ‘I was born with soapbox shoes/ Raised with morals that I chose to lose/ And when I've seen the evil that people do/ That’s when I learned to sing the blues’ and then take the blues to places that Robert Johnson had probably never thought of in “Wide Black Eyes”.

With the help of a drummer who’s kicking the shit out of his drums like they’re Rihanna and he’s Chris Brown, guitars that blow every single dust particle out of the amps and a vocalist with a PhD in exorcising demons, these guys mean business. They simply keep on going with songs that range from one to five minutes but always burst from the seams with unbridled aggression. And then in comes closer “Nowhere To Go” which sees the band diving straight into SST territory.

“Black Blue Eye” is one intense motherfucker of an album made by a bunch of pissed off guys who don’t give a fuck what you think. Whoever dares to stand in their way, will be blown away by Lewd Acts’ wall of sound anyway.