Anyone in Adelaide who missed out on the
two fantastic shows that this awesome Melbourne band played
on the 17th and 18th of December will
now have to suffer in silence until at least February of next year
before they again get the chance to experience
the live appeal one of MY new Fave Aussie Acts - Frankenbok.
Although only recently signed to the new
Shock records subsid. - FAULTLINE, Frankenbok have been shredding stages
throughout the East coast for quite a while now, reports have been coming
in from allover about their great live shows and totally thick and heavy
set. And every South aussie who saw them
play at either St Paul’s on Friday or
The Commercial on Sat. night has totally agreed - these guys are a BLAST.
Combining an excellent run of songs with
an energetic and entertaining stage presence - these guys offer the whole
package. Each amd every member as well as being a great player - has a
different and entertaining stage persona and the list of influences in
both stage and musical styling must run the whole
gammut from Death metal to Punk to Faith
No More to Strapping Young Lad and hit on everything in between. Hutch
on vocals kept everyone entertained with his SA vs VIC anecdotes ( VICTORIAN
bitter everyone ! ) , while Aaron and Tim's total love of everything metal
fully showed thru in their old school
banging and moniter posing.
But in no way do I want to give the impression
that these guys are merely clones of their greatest collective influences.
Musically Frankenbok are as traditional metal as they are new breed but
still as original and as fresh
as you wanna get. With awesome songs like
"Greetings and Salutations", "P-clone" and "I’m Ok with it" they immediately
whipped the crowd into a frenzy of action on both nights - something I
haven’t seen a melbourne band do at their FIRST adelaide gigs since the
likes of Superheist.
FRANKENBOK’S self titled debut album comes
out ( for those of you who werent lucky enough to score the now totally
rare Adelaide promo copy ! ) on FAULTLINE records in January. Look out
for it over the next few weeks on all the greatest radio programs if you
have to hear before you buy - but believe
me when I tell you that you shouldn’t
have to - it is excellent and definitely worth every penny.
-Cass