Hellcat Records
2007
In The Trenches
About This Album
Although Static Thought don't list them among their myriad hardcore and vintage punk influences, it is the Dead Boys who spring immediately to mind as "Drug of My Mind," the opening track of the band's debut album In the Trenches, slams out of the speakers. It is the vehemence with which the band attack their instruments, the blind fury of frontman Eric Urbach's vocals, that raise the Dead Boys' ghost from the grave. However close they are in spirit, though, musical nods to Cleveland's finest only come in spurts, with occasional Cheetah Chrome-styled guitar solos, best heard on "Ignorance of the Youth." The Dead Boys may have their spirit, but it's early British hardcore, Motörhead, and classic new-school punk bands like NOFX and Rancid that fill their soul. The music as salvation "Drug," for example, slams Motörhead straight into NOFX. "Social Unrest" puts even the speed metal heroes to shame, and contains some of the quickest guitar picking ever heard in punk, but even faster fingers belong to bassist Mike Have-Not, who positively storms across this number. Have-Not's intricate basslines are oft times modeled after Rancid's Matt Freeman, and give the songs a muscle and their sound a touch of ska-core; check out "Trenches" for the former and "Junk, Dope & Speed" for the latter as proof.
Track List (try tracks 1,4,5,8,9 and 11)

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