Skrape
New Killer America
RCA
Rating: 4.5 Flaming Goat Heads
Working its way through the thick skin of the Orlando underground like a tainted glass shard, Skrape's major-label debut is an impressive melding of intense instrumental abuse and intelligent, melodic vocal unpredictability. Steadily pounding from the mean, downpicked guitar intro of "What You Say" till the mid-tempo staccato bewilderment of "Blow Up," New Killer America boasts an unrelenting conviction toward heavy, complex guitar arrangements with swerving keyboard lines providing the band's differentiating tinge. Singer Billy Keeton is as vocally diverse as they come, veering from soft persuading suggestion to full-force top-volume commanding, all the while speaking positively about an individual's ability to make the world into whatever they want it to be, rather than rehashing metal's standard "rotten world" rhetoric. Guitars are on 11 throughout, big and meaty and plowing over all barriers, grabbing attention and laying waste to the faint. The spacious verses of "Goodbye" recant Jane's Addiction before the chorus forges its own category: soon-to-be-classic Skrape. Inventive and expressive, New Killer America, despite its relatively short 45-minutes, will hold its shelf-life in any heavy music collection.-Cliff Frantz
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