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NAVIGATING THE BRONZE Alternative Tentacles Released 2007 our latest and most ferocious album. the first featuring aaron walters on guitar. recorded with chris "the irritated wizard" owens, at headbangin' kill your mama music in louisville, ky. 01. You Can Hear The Honey 02. Wizard Van Wizard MP3 03. Dungeon Bastard 04. Huge Muscles MP3 05. Roman Coins 06. Lungless 07. Megatherium 08. Hiding In Paper 09. The Curse Of King David 10. Stjerneborg Review: I was wrong. I said things I shouldn’t have. I was presumptuous; I was hasty. I retract previous comments. None before and none after can be this good. Akimbo has consistently slain one album per year since 2002. But never before has it been as explosive as Navigating the Bronze. Never before has it been this huge. Each previous album has been a step in the right direction, but there’s something about Aaron, the way his guitar fits with Nat’s drums and Jon’s bass and screaming. Previous guitar players couldn’t keep pace or were too based in punk to bring the fucking rock. Akimbo is operating as a well-oiled machine, and all the pistons are firing at the same speed. The boys took these songs down to Louisville and had them tracked by Chris Owens, the dude from Lords who also records all of Lords’ stuff. It also means that they took the jump to digital recording for this album. And it sounds huge. I mean, Akimbo is one of the loudest bands you could see live. They have double stacks for bass and guitar, leaving a wall of amplifiers to try and drown out Nat’s huge kit and you can finally hear it on this album. - Punk News |
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FORGING STEEL AND LAYING STONE Alternative Tentacles Released 2006 our first alternative tentacles release. recorded with joel "butter" brown at ironwood in seattle. 01. Dangerousness MP3 02. Rockness Monster 03. Spooning With Disaster 04. Digging a Hole MP3 05. Rickshaw 06. Tina, Bring Me the Axe! 07. Tower of the Elephant 08. Breaking Rocks 09. Sci-Fi Monster Violence 10. Precious Moments 11. Maximilian: Jungle Warrior 12. Ground Control to Major Bummer Review: Let it be known that Forging Steel and Laying Stone is a flawless fruition of the labors of a band that's been playing for eight long years. Sing out the praises, ring the bells, tell every one of your snot-nosed friends which album they need to cram down their throats and spew forth adoring prayers of sacrifice about how the new Gods of Rock have landed. - Punk News "Forging Steel and Laying Stone"ãthe outfit's fourth long-player, and its first for Alternative Tentaclesãplaces the band firmly in mainstream crossover poise, which is a rarity in their aesthetically abrasive terrain... Akimbo's policy toward painstakingly selected equipment and analog-recording techniques finds a sound that should satisfy even the most elite production-conscious snobbery. - The Stranger |
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CITY OF THE STARS Seventh Rule Released 2004 a journey through time and space. if tycho brahe played guitar it would sound like this. recorded with zack reinig at chroma sound in seattle 01. Circle of Hair MP3 02. I Think I'm a Werewolf 03. The Sorceress MP3 04. Have a Good Time All the Time 05. Aiming for the Heel 06. High and Fighting 07. Afraid of Mountains 08. Dead and Buried 09. Uranaburg Review: City of the Stars is Akimbo's second album in two years and finds the band in absolute top form. While it's fairly easy to hear the Black Sabbath influence at work here, there seems to be a nearly equal dose of late 80's DC punk and a healthy shot of Bay Area grindcore. This album contains nine tracks of bluesy, sludgy metal that disproves the theory that it's all been done before. - Lambgoat |
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ELEPHANTINE Dopamine [CD] Released 2003 Seventh Rule [Vinyl] Released 2003 our maiden voyage to the world of moustaches and camaros. truly, a far out trip through a hard rock tunnel. recorded with joel "butter" brown at the paradox in seattle. 01. Golem 02. Delilah MP3 03. Bane of the Ancient Whales 04. Harpoon 05. Cavernous Black Eyes 06. Kiss the Sun 07. A Far Out Trip Through a Hard Rock Tunnel MP3 08. Bitten From the Thigh of Zeus 09. Art of Asphyxiation 10. Vassal of the Phallus Crown 11. I'm a Fucking Ice Giant Review: Imagine Neurosis' Enemy Of The Sun or Souls At Zero filtered through hardcore kids in the Northwest, and augmented with furiously complex black metallisms, insane start/stop time signatures and shrieking metalcore crunch. Sound good? That's 'cause it is good. Really good. - Aquarius |
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HARSHING YOUR MELLOW Dopamine [CD] Released 2001 Seventh Rule [Vinyl] OUT OF PRINT our first full length! you can actually hear the left over teen angst oozing in the background. recorded with wes "the wizard" weresch at uptone studios, tacoma. 01. Paul Reuben's Theatre MP3 02. Lick the Knife 03. When I am King I Will Spit on the Corpse of Ray Manzarek MP3 04. Sense of Smell 05. Life in the Noose 06. Steal Your First Born 07. The Sound is Dead 08. Confessions of a Small Scale Martyr 09. Fuck Everett, Fuck Tacoma 10. I Wish the Dead Could Come Back to Life So I Could Kill You Again 11. Pink Bathwater Review: Something is always moving, whether it be insane guitar riff, mind-blowing bass riff, or crazy as hell drum fill. Not only does this band experiment with tempo variations, but also time signature changes. And they do it extremely well too. When listening to the record, you don't have guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, but all four blending together in a gigantic homogenous mixture. It's like musical pudding. Delicious, and smooth. - PunkNews |
