I'm sorry, but before we start I just can't get enough of this band's emails:
Hauw!
Here's a copy of our new album 'WOW IS DEAD'; you get it before everyone else because yr a special snowflake and seem to dig what weer doing. YAY!
Weev come to the conclusion that our music is, in fact, FUCKIN GALLUS and we just need to get it into the right lugholes. To that end weer releasing this album as CHARITYWARE: essentially 'free' but with the encouraging proviso that peeps shoot some of their EVILCASHSLAVEMONIES at some GOOD CUASES.
...This 'un has been in the making almost since we decided we were a 'band'. It is not a joke. It's deeply personal; a concept album, and weer dead proud of it.
ENJOY.
If you wanna chat know more, ask away, and if you have any tech/format probs, get back to us.
SADSACK& THUMPER
D(((O)))(((O)))M.
It's hard to take something seriously from two dudes who call themselves "SADSACK" and "THUMPER," but damned if this album isn't quite good. In fact, it's probably the best noise/drone album I have heard this year. Like they say, it's no joke. This is a very serious record on par with cEvin Key's various side projects, particularly Download. Such an incredible hodgepodge of styles and genres from industrial to ambient and even a touch of old school dubstep (the low-key kind, not the ravy kind). Think Burial as opposed to Skrillex. "Tinker Town vs. The Goblin Slums" actually sounds like an outtake from NIN's Ghosts while "Green Jesus Voodoo Warchief" is a tribal acid trip courtesy of your local witch doctor.
And perhaps more important than the sonic variety is the landscape of emotions that are so concisely and expertly conveyed over the course of WOW is Dead. Parts of "D(((O)))(((O)))MHAMMER" (after setting the stage with some weirdness and clashing swords) have a warm, fuzzy sound filled with groove that just makes me feel good. I mean I want to get down to this track, if you know what I mean. "{◕ ◡ ◕} tHE sHA OF hAPPYNESS" (yes that is a title), on the other hand, is intensely morose and a little eerie. There is an air of utter isolation. I keep picturing an empty swingset slowly swaying in a suffocating, grey fog. Paging Pyramid Head.
Every track has its own distinct flavor beautifully crafted through breakbeats, noise, and eclectic instrumentation; and yet it all flows together nicely as a concept. The bleak conclusion of the track above, for instance, transitions perfectly into the dark-yet-danceable "Bramblescar, Mankrik's Fury Unending;" opening with an equal feeling of regret and then progressively amping up the energy levels and devious overtones. This is Boobs of Doom's own personal The Downward Spiral. Who'd have thought an album about two dudes who met over their mutual love of music and World of Warcraft could get so artsy?
Being perfectly honest, I went into this as a lark. I planned on giving these guys a review to be a good sport and support their silliness and personability, but my hats off to them. As is often the case, the strangest of us continue to be the true artists. WOW is Dead is a stunningly introspective bit of electronic music that I actually plan on listening to more in the future. And it is true that this is all for a good cause. They ask that those who download this record will donate to one of the following places in lieu of payment. Also, be sure to check out and redistribute the charityware readme file. It's priceless. A few excerpts after the stream.
/// GIFT (Gastroparesis & Intestinal Failure Trust) UK: giftuksupport.org
/// The Scottish Association for Mental Health: samh.org.uk
/// PDSA: pdsa.org.uk
/// Children's Hospital of Orange County: choc.org
/// Make a Wish: make-a-wish.org.uk
True story, Bro:Boobs of DOOM (pronounced "D(((O)))(((O)))M.") is two humans, Sadsack and Thumper, plus their demoniacally possessed TB-303, Muta.Sadsack and Thumper met online playing World of WarCraft.One day, while chatting on guild VOIP, they realised that, not only did they click musically, they were both arthritic old whores of the Glasgow music scene whom, many times over the years, had passed like mad steamers in the night. They took it upon themselves to meet up IRL and make strange music together.How Strange.So, essentially, if it wasn't for WoW, there would be no Boobs of DOOM.GG Blizz!
And...
///"WOW IS DEAD" is a concept album about greif, sadness, madness and finding solace; one warscarred orc sets out with his best friend, a 2000 yr old undead blood elf, to avenge the death of his beloved, and, in doing so uncovers an eons old revenge plot with world-colliding apocalyptic ramifications;
running parallel:
one man (and his cat) trying to cope with the recent death of his wife finds escape in an online fantasy world and solace in using his guildmates as an emotional crutch;
then, both world start to bleed...Additionally, this serves as Boobs of DOOM's tongue-in-cheek love letter to the massive, one-of-a-kind, huge-arse, glorious gaming fluke that is:///World of WarCraft\\\Music for / inspired by:-late night dungeons,
-fishing for 4 hours straight,
-inebriated raiding
-being a 'completely smashed' dancing Ghostwolf at the Darkmoon Faire
-ore whoring
-transmog vogue-ing
-moaning aboot total lack of Dance Studio
-making 99,999,000 cookies
-trolling in trade
-/popcorn
-Leeeeeeroy
-achievement farming
-actually defending the damn flag
-logging in to do garrisons, then logging off
-AXE IN FACE!
-awesomesaucey
-liking pies
-playing with the best friends ye could ever want via the world's weirdest medium: the Internet.
-wondering what the hell we are wittering aboot
and much much more!