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  Brain Tentacles is a metal(ish) supergroup, involving Yakuza saxophonist Bruce Lamont, Keelhaul bassist Aaron Dallison, and journeyman drummer Dave Witte. You’ll notice the lack of guitar. This unusual arrangement places them in a surprisingly long lineage of genre-agnostic metal/jazz hybrids featuring saxophones, starting 30 years ago with John Zorn-related projects like Naked City, Painkiller, and Last Exit. The early iterations of this niche usually approached metal by way of grindcore, which explains how these three guys might’ve come to start such a project. Though Witte is currently best known for the retro thrash outfit Municipal Waste, he made his bones as a grind player, and has recorded in oddball Zorn-inspired projects before.
  So Brain Tentacles’ first LP fits neatly into this continuum, which means it’s pretty far out there in left field. Historically, most bands from this outré corner project a lot of chaos — playing crazy fast, employing gruesome free improvisation, or switching genres wholesale multiple times a song. Brain Tentacles don’t do any of that; their music is largely structured, and Witte cradles the band in his mile-deep pocket instead of blasting away. Instead of raving and gibbering, they spend much of their time playing straight-ahead metal parts…with saxes instead of guitars…and a lot of psych-rock overtones. So yeah, plenty strange enough in its own way. The effect can be pretty comical at times, as the big galumphing riff that opens “Hand Of God” immediately demonstrates, but that’s all part of the fun — this album features song titles like “Cosmic Warriors Girth Curse” and “Sleestack Lightning”, so the band’s clearly in on the joke. And silly or not, these three vets know what they’re doing. Listen.- By: Doug Moore-Stereogum.com ... more
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