REVIEW: FUZZ EVIL – FUZZ EVIL (2016)

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Fuzzing hell, this rather good

About a year back, MV carried a review by a San Diego band called Powdered Wig Machine (yeah we know it’s an awesome name…awesome record too as it happens) well, it turns out that Wayne and Joseph Rudell, the brothers at the helm of PWM were also in Fuzz Evil.

Two singles later, they are ready to flesh out their ideas some more. Now with Powdered Wig Machine drummer Daniel Graves on the kit, the three piece are ready to flesh out their ideas a little more.

The bad news first: this is only six songs long. The good news: its superb.

Helpfully – rather like those death metal bands who have logos that we can’t read and names we don’t understand – Fuzz Evil’s name tells you much of what you need to know about them. The tracks here have warm, instantly recognisable desert grooves. Oh, and they are most definitely fuzzy.

Opening song “Good Medicine” (who’s title this reviewer is probably alone in hoping is a Bon Jovi homage) doesn’t half sound like Iron Butterfly’s “In A Gadda Da Vida” is magnificent, and has a soaring guitar solo jut for grins, while “My Fuzz” comes in on the back of…well, a fuzzy slab of sound and has a kind of Kyuss thing going on and “Killing The Sun” – the first cut they shared with the world from the EP a couple of months back – has a little more of a strut about it.

Whatever they do, though FE do it well, “Bring Them Through” has a dirty bass groove going on, before morphing into something of a slammer with superb harmony vocals and a catchy as hell hook and “Odin Has Fallen” is a full on stoner rock behemoth, striding the land like a riff based colossus talking about “black soil on the astral plain”. Whilst we don’t understand it either, we do know it rather good.

Best of all, though is “Black Dread” the near seven minute long epic they choose to end this with. Kicking in with some Deep Purple keyboards is always fun, packing a million riffs and some psychedelic vocals suggesting we are best not to “mess with the dragon” is even better and concluding the matter with about three minutes of guitar solo is merely the right thing to do.

There really is nothing to dislike here, in fact there’s every reason to cherish this mini album and try and think up some clever play on words about the evil that Fuzz do. Which we can’t, so just check it out instead.

There’s gold in these here riffs.

Rating 8/10

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