Cold Megan kicks ass. the brain child of Kitten Skullfuck, Cold Megan is a high energy punk rock outfit, bent on taking over the world and posting Kittens and goatse all over the place. Their roots lie in classic punk outfits like the Dead Boys, and horror punks the Misifts. What you end up with, is a giant wall of guitar, and the frantic drumming of percussionist, Bareback Stiv Wallace. Now, Mr Skulf's vocal delivery is othing short of unique, I've never heard so much snarling on one track in my entire life. I love it,
Now that you knwo a bit about the band, let's go on to the album. It kicks off with the masterpiece Riot In Toyland,after a somewhat slow intro, the guitars kick back in and the snarling commences. The album motors along at full pace, with songs such as Skullworms, Oi! Ruling Man and Ploughing the Dead.
Around the halfway mark, my favourite track kicks in, Kitten Without A Home, a song influenced by Oliver and Company, it's just so catchy and makes you want to pogo and bounce around with the crowd.
The album officially ends with cold Megan's magnum opus, More Tea, Gloria? With an almost indeciferable "One, Two, Three, Four!" to kick off, this is just the epitome of the energy and twisted vocal and guitar delivery that is Cold Megan, there could never be a better closing song.
But the CD doesn't end there, there are a bonus 5 tracks, all covers. They start off with a cover of Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen". with an elongated intro guitar solo, the song already starts off well, it's a faithful cover, but it's most definitely CM.
There's a change of pace with a cover of Eleanor Ribgy, by the Beatles. This one is most definitely a CM song, it's a punked up, high energy song, no frills.
Next there are covers of the Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders, and Lower Class Brats, but hell, I'm not gonna listen to the album for you!
Go to www.myspace.com/coldmegan and check out the tracks on the myspace, or buy a CD, they'll send it anywhere in the world, within understandable means.
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