Max Boogie Overdrive – Stoned Again

 

 

Max Boogie Overdrive – Stoned Again
Self-released – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Hard, Metal
Rated: ****

Most of the words that follow were jotted down over the course of many months. Because the promo dropped so early, we assumed, constantly and erroneously that we would have time enough to finish this write-up about the full-sized debut Stoned Again for the Max Boogie Overdrive fun bunch from Los Angeles, USA. And yesterday, and no, not because we were constantly Stoned Again, we realized the album drops today! So, happy release day to the Max Boogie Overdrive four and all the people that will hear this album today and get high from all that fast paced hardrock. Indeed, hardrock interlaced with stoner and something seventies rock inspired and full of eighties metal adoration. For you will be treated to some bad ass motoring stonerrock, speed boogie metal and a whole lot of swagger. The Max Boogie Overdrive filled up their van with all that up-tempo and fuzzed out grooviness and went to town! Opener The Devil Knows My Name was their second single and is the seminal cruiser for their forward motion rock, zipping along the coast on an old bike, with the confidence that comes on a man when the wind picks up and he begins to move in a hard straight line toward an unknown horizon, trying to get away from the Devil. Blues roots abundant, luscious guitar all across the composition and absolute thundering drum work. Suffer Sister was the first single, logically chosen, for the amount of catchiness and those riffs tumbling over each other, shortest track on the album and a righteous shotgun blast with the bit of freak out soloing around the middle segment, ending on that perfect drum down and cowbell note. Third track Freakazoid slows down, digs in and drops some acid… Rock… With explosive guitar solos that take you places and a steady swing and swagger, rolling over that running eighties metal guitar riffing underneath or allowed to free flow and drown you in a mirror pool of wavey guitar sounds. Followed by Van Boogie, the most Californian desert, skater and stoner rocking song on the album. And indeed, such a boogie, with a dynamic bob and bounce, and a groove that seems to run deeper than the Mariana Trench. Full tilt boogie indeed! The hardrock and metal pervasive stoner dynamite that is Bomb Incoming comes next, with those chugging riffs and those classic eighties refrains, delivering once again what Max Boogie Overdrive seems to be all about, that fun gritty rock! Two more tracks follow before you get to the final title track of the album: Stoned Again. Starting off with a lovely snippets of the honest former President of the USA, Obama, it soon becomes this face melting druggy and drifting stoner rocking ripple, speeding up later on and returning to slow fold afterwards. Filled with anthemic vocals professing the drug feelings of the youth and loads of soundbites at the end coming out of the cosmic void to combat that elated feeling you had about drugs earlier on. It’s all good. It’s all fun! Just like the entire album, Max Boogie Overdrive show their colors early on with this record and show us we need more classic metal mixed with stoner boogie. Cause this is what truly gets you high!

(Written by JK)

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