Heady Metal

Municipal Waste is a band meant to be blasted while tearing the sleeves off your jean jacket. With gang vocal choruses, rapid-fire machine-gun riffing, and tongue-in-cheek rippers like "The Thrashin' of the Christ," these dudes recall the glory days of '80s crossover, when metal and hardcore first swapped DNA via...

By Jason Bracelin

November 12, 2009

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Municipal Waste is a band meant to be blasted while tearing the sleeves off your jean jacket. With gang vocal choruses, rapid-fire machine-gun riffing, and tongue-in-cheek rippers like "The Thrashin' of the Christ," these dudes recall the glory days of '80s crossover, when metal and hardcore first swapped DNA via bands like D.R.I., the Cro-Mags, and the Crumbsuckers. Oh, and "Terror Shark" is the year's most kick-ass ode to killer fish.

Fellow audio offenders Goatwhore, Phobia, and Cauldron share the bill during Municipal Waste's Clubhouse show.
Mon., Nov. 16, 7 p.m., 2009

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