Brooklyn's bombjack

What a glorious mix of heavy metal and punk. The songs are all very hypnotic. Most of them begin with drawn-out slowly rising guitar scores and the vocals start out flat and monotonous building up to a frenzy of hard beating guitars and screaming vocals. The music carries you with it. You float on a sea of tension, waiting for something, anything to break, feeling like a tightly coiled spring, clenched fists, feeling anxiety you didn't know was there, until finally the singer screams, the guitars speed up , the drummer beats on his instruments and you dance, but you dance hard, without coordination, you just let it out, and sweat. You actually feel a release of something. Fucking incredible. What a rush. Very appropriate to the lyrics.

The thing that stood out for me in the music, besides the incredible rise-to-climax evolution of most of the songs is the flat, almost metallic voice the singer uses at the beginning of most of the songs before he lets loose. It almost matches the sound of the guitars.

As far as showmanship goes, the band as a whole are somewhat predictable. They do the whole Metallica sway/bounce thing. If only they had long hair! A few things catch my eye: The singer jumps incredibly high, I thought he was going to lose his balance from coming down from so high. The lead guitarist stares down at his guitar while he's bouncing. I actually liked that - it looks like nothing else in the world exists for him.

I think perhaps the drummer could be a bit more creative. I listened for some variation in the beat, but couldn't hear any besides in the speed. With all the release you feel with bombjack's songs, the drums could potentially play a huge part in the climax.

Arthur:	Lead singer. Bad 'do, but one helluva voice! Also, a dedicated fan-meeter. I didn't actually meet him, but I watched him smile and talk to people that were obviously drunk and looking for glory. I would've flipped off a few of the people he tolerated a conversation with.
Jesse:	Guitarist. This is the one all the girls scream for. What a cutie!
FK:	Lead guitarist. He looks so young and almost innocent in an adolescent way. He wears an angry scowl, but it's the kind that you see on a rebellious teenager that you know does not come from his core being. You want to hug him and tell him that the world is not such a bad place to be. I'd love to see his smile; I bet it's beautiful.
Frank:	Drums. I was disappointed that he was sitting in the shadows. I couldn't see him play.
John:	Bassist. Talk to him if you get a chance. Intelligent, genuinely interested in his fans, serious musician. If bombjack makes it (and it looks like they're already making it), I'd assume it to be his footwork.