Monotremata.com review of 'thirty pieces'

Okay, first up: They get about a billion bonus points for the inner painting of Ol' Scratch looking out over a destroyed temple (with a tile floor straight out of TWIN PEAKS) filled with way-underdressed succubi and naked wizards and skeletons and gargoyles. Beyond the temple: Golgotha. They even have pentegrams (two of them, in fact). Second: Their encyclopedia-length thank-you notes include Danny from Southern Gun Culture -- they get props for respect. Their li'l press thingy calls them "doomy stoner rock" and that's accurate enough, but I think they sound more like Eddie-era Motorhead (although they're not as persistently obsessed with speed), assuming Lemmy had thrown away his Chuck Berry and MC5 records upon hearing Black Sabbath. Guitarist Steve Janiak can actually sing without sounding like he's heaving up a bowl o' razors, though, and this recording sounds like it was engineered by people who knew what they were doing and weren't smoking crack (which is more than you can say for half of Motorhead's albums). The stereo panning at the tail end of "Angular Shapes" is a nice, unexpected touch in particular....

Expect lots of riffs, many of them melodic, quite a few of them catchy. The album is full of heavy riffs, slow riffs, fast riffs, simple riffs, not-so-simple riffs, and way better arrangements than your average stoner / doom album. They know how to keep things moving, instead of beating a riff to death (something maybe only Zeni Geva has ever been able to really get away with consistently), which is good. That there are plenty of nifty riffs is better. Their twin-guitar thang goes down obscenely tight and bathed in distortion, just like Thin Lizzy used to serve it up. The rhythm section does the dinosaur shake with clarity, volume, and plenty of crunchy heaviness. There are eleven tracks and they all rock. You should buy this. Better yet, go see them live and buy it there.