Blacktusk
Taste the Sin
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Beastly Georgian trio, Blacktusk, bring hell’s hammers down heavy on their sophomore effort, Taste the Sin, like they’re taking out a whole bushel of rotten peaches in one abominable swing, splattering black juice and insidious worms all over the goddamn place. Baizley wrapped and disastrously brackish, Taste the Sin picks up where ‘08’s debut, Passage Through Purgatory, left off by heaping a whole mess of redneck rage onto the sludge metal artistry of bands like Baroness and Torche. The angry, pounding riffs burn like fire on the surface of an oily swamp and every one of the album’s 11 songs seethe and foam like acid on an open wound. Imagine the Cancer Bats with longer teeth or Zoroaster with shorter songs and you’ve got the Southern stoner death thrash of Blacktusk.

Note: I’ve seen the band’s name written several different ways, including Black Tusk and BlackTusk, but I have opted for Blacktusk. If any of the fellas in the band would like to offer up the official spelling of the band’s name, please drop me a line. Until then, I will stick with the one word, lower case ‘t’ version. For better or worse.

Listen to “Snake Charmer” from Taste the Sin!

Yeah yeah, mama. Now you could hit the sheets or the streets, it don’t make me no never mind. Now that’s your bag baby, you can go, or you could come. Can you dig it?

After Tarantino and Rodriguez gave us the Grindhouse double feature Planet Terror and Death Proof in 2007, I thought for sure there’d be a whole rash of late-night, back-room splatter n’ ass flicks saturating the screens, but no one else really hopped on that ol’ time B movie midnight train, which is a shame really, because they are some of the most fun you’ll ever have at the movies.  However, blaxploitation films have seen their share of attention ever since their glory days in the 70s, mostly as spoofs, and Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, and Scott Sanders have stepped up to the throwback plate and penned one of the best in recent years. I’m talking about the delicious, ridiculous, outta sight, boogie lovin’, bad-ass blaxploitation gem Black Dynamite!

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