Magic Chicken Fudgetoe – Technicolour Misery

 

 

Magic Chicken Fudgetoe – Technicolour Misery
Self released – 2021
Metal, Thrash, Rock, Stoner, Grunge, Doom
Rated: ***

Perth, Australia. Another spot I’ve always desperately wanted to visit but which has not materialized so far. What has revealed itself to eyes, ears and heart, is that new eight track album Technicolour Misery by Perth, Australia trio Magic Chicken Fudgetoe. (Aah, that’s why you mentioned Perth.) And yes, I do love that bandname. Although Fudgetoe would have been rocking to my ears as well or Chicken Fudgetoe or Magic Fudgetoe. Anyway, enough about the bandname and on to the album. Which starts out pretty psychedelic and trippy before quickly distorting that with guttural vocals or even screams and an intensely grainy grunge sound. Which then picks up speed soon enough moving into thrash metal and hardcore territory. An eighties vibe can be felt on many of the tracks and there’s something highly energetic about it all, even that fourth instrumental track Kenny On The Couch will kick you out of whatever seat you’re in at that given moment in time. There’s a certain neck breaking tempo here that just demands every bit of your headbanging techniques. And soon other metal sparks will be flying of the wall as well. And yes, when the more slow, dragging final tracks arrive you are ready for their version of doom. Doom straight from the inferno…

(Written by JK)

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