Red Fang Whales And Leeches

2013, WHALES AND LEECHES has a different much edgier feel than MURDER THE MOUNTAINS, which was an almost punk experience. Red Fang is not a punk band, but you can certainly hear the punk rock influence in there. WHALES AND LEECHES walks the line between a sludge-factory and a prog festival attended by punks. The musicianship on MURDER THE MOUNTAINS trembles in WHALES AND LEECHES' immense anthem-toting shadow. It's almost eclipsed by it completely. And leading that anthem is: Bryan Giles (guit./voc.), Aaron Beam (B./voc.), David Sullivan (guit.) and John Sherman (dr.). Red Fang manages to pack in all that you'd want and more in WHALES AND LEECHES. With most tracks landing under the four-minute-mark, they still manage to stuff a lifetime worth of riffs and time signatures in this album. Red Fang mastered the art of shift time signatures so seamlessly that the untrained ear will barely even notice the change. It's truly a thing of tasty, hard-rocking ninja beauty. Well played, Red Fang.