Friends Forever - Killball

Ryan:

As you may have heard or seen, Friends Forever has a few interesting things going on. First…the trio, unable to be corralled into your silly little clubs, plays right out of their van in the parking lots outside. Second (and more important to this review) they have just released their new cd KILLBALL on Providence’s Load Records…and it seems to be a sort of theme album. Here is a quote that I tracked down on the Load site:

“FRIENDS FOREVER'S KILLBALL details an ultra-violent future where games are played to the death. KILLBALL is similar to American football circa 1920-2016, except the players wear no pads and are given PCP to ensure a grizzly game. Each player is equipped with a switchblade and a machete. To be tackled is to be destroyed. Tonight you have been chosen to play KILLBALL. Can you win?”

Killball appears to be a tale not unlike Running Man. Song by song a tale is spun of arena death and sports carnage. Now, I don’t know jack-shit about sports except that I hate them. However…I love the Running Man! I also love Pro-Wresting which seems related I guess.

The record starts off strong with a sort of James Kochalka Superstar vibe (I am sure that F4E will hate that) in Carnisaur vs Unicorn. The second track, easily the best track, is Win”. This has a pretty rad groove and is unlike most of the stuff I hear. It has a sounds that is actually unmatched on the album with the exception of 1 or 2 other tracks.

With the exception of the last track, (IMHO) a terrible song Winners” (unneeded noisefest), this album rocks in a way that is really refreshing.

Speaking of Killball… where is my Rush 2112 album?