Darkness was a raw sounding German Thrash band that put out three albums in the late eighties. They had a dirty beer soaked sound that was never easy on the ears. Flash forward to late 2016 and out of nowhere there is a new Darkness record. What have these guys been doing for the last twenty five plus years? I love it when that happens.
The Gasoline Solution is just as raw and grimy as the stuff they put out thirty years ago. It's a short record, thirty something minutes in length, which is plenty long enough for a band like this. This disc is pummeling and rough and brilliant. My two favorite songs are the title track, which has incredibly ridiculous lyrics and a catchy as hell chorus, and the absolute classic song Tinkerbell Must Die, which is amazing. Awesome lyrically and musically.
"All the heroes of my childhood told me lies,
Kill Superman, Kill Peter Pan,
And even Tinkerbell must die."
Another group of fifty something year old dudes that can still bring it hard. So cool.
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