Funeralizer
Self-Titled
(Crayo KC)
Funeralizer breaks down loud rock to its most basic elements of killer riffs, slamming drums and pounding bass. No song on the Austin-based instrumental trio’s album goes for over two minutes. It’s like it’s their mission to get in, rock out and then get the Hell out before the dust even settles. It’s fat free noise rock at its best.
Throughout the course of the album, the band, which features Trivett Wingo (ex-The Sword) on drums, David DiDonato (Ultimate Dragons) on guitar and Clarke Wilson (Bangaar) drums, explores rock riffs and motifs from many different angles. There is the slight whiff of math rock to the proceedings, but it’s all done in service of delivering full on rock action.
Album opener “RIC” starts with a flourish, throws out a killer riff, and some noisy guitar accents all within the span of 1:12. “Single Entendre (The Cigar Song), mines a more mid-paced groove and goes on for an epic length (for this album) 1:49. “Koo Stark’s Big Break (Pt. III)” offers more riff exploration and a false ending and restart all within 1:14. The shortest song on the album goes to the one with the longest title. “The Real Tragedy Would Have Been If Romeo And Juliet Had Lived” is all of seven seconds. (By the way, you’ve just got to love the album titles on the album. The closer “Game Over Man, Game Over” references a famous line of dialogue from James Cameron’s Aliens.)
If you want something a little different than your standard instrumental rock, then you should definitely pick this one up. It cuts out all the extraneous bullshit and passes the rock onto you. It’s all killer and no filler.
