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Bullets and Octane

In the Mouth of the Young
2006
RCA

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Review by: Anchors
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Published on December 15th 2006

The last time we saw Bullets and Octane, they were doing their best Misfits impression. Complete lack of thought and originality aside, they did fairly well at it. Now, two years older, but uncannily not anywhere close to two years wiser, the four-piece find themselves channeling Avenged Sevenfold and whatever other generic punk band you can think of to articulate their sound.

Maybe I’m giving too much credit where not enough is due, though. Articulate implies a level of intelligence, or in this instance, some rudimentary musical understanding, none of which is prevalent on this vapid attempt to hit the Billboard 200.

Singer Gene Louis does his best to croon and bellow over the top of his misguided band-mates, only resulting in an even more muddled and even more directionless sound. It seems the band is not sure whether they’d like to traverse the faux-metal or faux-punk route, so they’re left trudging somewhere right in the very middle. On one hand, there’s some impressive (albeit unnecessary) guitar solos, and on the other, the band tries to project a raw punk sound, not knowing another way to do it besides piling as much distortion on top of the four-chord structure as possible. They try their hand at everything from sing-along choruses to hardcore-style gang vocals, and each endeavor finds them falling flat on their faces.

Furthering their problems is the scatterbrained nature in which they approach the sequencing of the record. There’s no flow, no structure, no semblance of any ties binding one song to the next. It’s all just a loose association of bad ideas that jumps all over the map, leaving them right back where they started by the time it’s finished.

What we in effect have with In the Mouth of the Young is a bar rock band with delusions of grandeur. Nothing more, nothing less.

And being the good guy that I am, I’m going to give some tough love and not help propagate the tepid garbage they’re trying to pass off as music.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 12:28 PM (EST)

There's a huge stack of these, still unsold, at Tower's going out of business sale.

Posted by Ianw on 2006-12-17 23:06:37

Stupid un-artful crap. With boorish commerical artwork.

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 3:33 PM (EST)

i was browsing through the bargain bin at the local record store and i saw this in the dollar section. just came out and already stuck in the dollar bin! ha!

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 2:32 PM (EST)

I liked their first cd, I still have it, but I probably will never listen to it again after seeing the way this band handles themselves and how shitty they are as people. Plus their desperate attempt at selling in isnt working.

Posted by Anchors on 2006-12-17 00:13:47

Oh Christ, here comes the street team.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 1:34 PM (EST)

"share more a common bond with a band like Buckcherry"

That bad, eh?

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 11:29 AM (EST)

You evidently wouldn't recognize a good song if it drove up and dumped its garbage on your front lawn.

Posted by wyzo on 2006-12-16 06:28:15

"They sound nothing like Avenged Sevenfold and share more a common bond with a band like Buckcherry"

this is absofuckinglutefuckly hilarious. quit 'helping' this band. Your backfiring.

Buckcherry is the band that spawned from tommy lee's masterbation sperm finding seed in his belly button with the 'mayhem' tattoo ink.

Buckcherry once drove there tour RV in front of my small business, opened the side door, and kicked a huge box of trash into the street of my wonderful, inviting local neighborhood. Fucking up a community, ROCK!

Particularly the miles of McDonald's trash. real epic and decadent.
fuckers can't even handle more than a 6 peice nugget. Rock devils i think not.

wyzo

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 5:21 AM (EST)

You're out of your mind. This CD is fantastic. They sound nothing like Avenged Sevenfold and share more a common bond with a band like Buckcherry. Of all the bands that have released records in the past 19 years comparing themselves to early Guns N' Roses, this is the first band to actually do it right.

Posted by radioXwaves on 2006-12-15 23:50:04
My Score:

bastion of gayness

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 9:25 PM (EST)

Dayumn anchors, what won't you say?

Posted by mcgregor107 on 2006-12-15 20:28:03

who gave you the right to use me and my friends in your review?! bitch..

Posted by Jesse on 2006-12-15 19:20:33

Now they just really love Social Distortion.

Posted by Jesse on 2006-12-15 19:20:17

This band would have been Poison 20 years ago.

Posted by punk_sk on 2006-12-15 19:10:51
My Score:

score is for how hot the girl is. if i read right when i got this album, she is a suicide girl

Posted by The4footpartysub on 2006-12-15 16:34:02

I loved it when CKY ranked on them during their tour together. They sound so generic.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 2:58 PM (EST)

Milf!

Posted by Mute98 on 2006-12-15 14:19:53
My Score:

i thik they rule

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 1:46 PM (EST)
My Score:

I bought this album several months back on the recommendation of a friend. I don't think I've even attempted to listen to it since. I couldn't make it through the disc once.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 1:45 PM (EST)

that album art is awful

Posted by kirbypuckett on 2006-12-15 12:33:27
My Score:

I told someone we all know and love that I would keep my mouth shut on this band.

However, I can still give this album a half a star!

- Kirby

Posted by minus_20_scene_points on 2006-12-15 10:32:35

that was a very well thought out ass whooping you just handed out. good review, shit album.

Posted by maverick on 2006-12-15 09:53:48
My Score:

I cannot even begin to express how much fuck this band.

-Scott

Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-12-15 07:06:34

This band officially has NO fans.
Most pointless band ever, and adding to the hilarity, isn't someone who used to be in guttermouth in this band?

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 6:12 AM (EST)

i saw them open for social D while they were touring the album before this one. i bought the cd and it was fucking fantastic.

this album is totally awful though. way to depreciate.

Posted by wyzo on 2006-12-15 05:04:15

that cover is amazingly hilarious. wow

Posted by JKyle on 2006-12-15 01:28:44

Yeah, these guys suck.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 1:12 AM (EST)

The chick is hot. Minus the baby, that shit is weird...

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 12:21 AM (EST)
My Score:

Kind of disturbing album art too. This score's for ruining an otherwise great picture with a baby.

Posted by Archangel on 2006-12-15 00:05:47

That link is COLD. But funny.

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