BIRD EATER
Utah
(Exigent)

JESU
Lifeline
(Hydra Head)

EVILE
Enter the Grave
(Earache)

STINKING LIZAVETA
Scream of the Iron Iconoclast
(At a Loss)

WOLVES IN THE
THRONE ROOM
Two Hunters
(Southern Lord)

RED FANG
S/T 

(Wantage)

PURE SOUNDART
Emo is Dead

(Lockjaw)

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I highly recommend anyone interested in live heavy jams, experimental music, guitar fucking and/or impressive woman drummers to check any of the Stinking Lizaveta live performances posted on You Tube.  It is jaw dropping stuff that this Philly-based trio is used to shoving in front of our faces and into our ear canals. More fascinating is that they don’t make it seem easy; bearded guitarist Yanni Papadopoulos (was that Webster’s prosthetic dad’s surname?) spews solos and funkified stoner-like esoteric riffage like is nobody’s business, but he makes enough faces while doing it to assure us that it takes hundreds of hours of practice to get good at it and to rival Marcel Marceau’s lackadaisical expressionistic facial gestures at the same time. At the drum stool is Chesire Agusta, who beats the skin with gusto, much like it should be done for a band of this style (or lack thereof), plenty of fills and stylish nuances; she is almost Bonham-esque in her use of the tom toms.

Stinking Lizaveta is a three piece formed by veteran musicians from the West Philadelphia music scene. They play regularly around their area and nowhere is that more evident than in Scream of the Iron Iconocalst; the band’s fifth full-length recording and second release through At a Loss.  It’s not that they are tight from so much gigging, but that their music is loose and self-contained by apparent inertia. Mixed and recorded by the great Steve Albini; Scream of the Iron Iconoclast nails sixteen massive tracks of free flowing guitar rock. To make things easier, it would be of benefit to lump them into a genre; jazz rock is usually mentioned and the free spirit of each cut grants that inclusion while the stoner quality to the playing, the solos and the sparse ideas also grant Stinking Lizaveta’s inclusion in that sub genre. The album is impressive from the get go, but like is bound to happened with many instrumental albums, it can get a bit tedious towards the end. Let’s not forget we are talking sixteen jams here. A nearly intolerable high number for anybody’s standards.

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