PIPE :: Shovelmouth

Pipe’s debut offering “Shovelmouth” drives a copper wire wrapped nail straight into your neck and jolts the inner beast alive with gritty grooves that surge inside your head long after the music stops. Bringing back rhythms rarely heard since the early ‘90s, Stephen Favarato’s charging vocals and Frank Damiano’s grinding guitar run like a diesel truck through your living room, leaving no doubt that the heavy is still in metal. Favarato’s vocal range is featured throughout but really burns blue hot in the title track and the muscle driven “Override.” “Fuck the What” brings a sexiness destined to keep strippers slipping and sliding up and down their poles from here to Amsterdam. The Chicago based band’s other stompers, drummer Keith Homel and bassist Wayne Landino, weld a rigid spine to Pipe’s delivery without wasting a note or beat, supplying staying power to their autobiographical tales of twist. “Shovelmouth” is a compilation of weighty tunes that appeal to purists and the commercial crowd and blots out the exaggerated rumors of this genre’s demise, assuring us that rock ’n’ roll is alive and killing it!

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