Screamingbloodymess.com review of '30 pieces'

Devil To Pay Hail from Indianapolis in the United States and they play stoner rock in the vein of Kyuss, occasionally adding some very progressive riffs that sound a little like The Mark Of Cain. You can also hear a lot of influence coming in from Metallica, Slayer and Pantera, but unfortunately in the vocals, with that half yelled, gruff, throaty, yet still a little whiney sort of voice. But I suppose a lot of people are into Metallica, and most of them would probably get off on this release. I’m listening to it right now and just heard a guitar solo which confirms my suspicions.

The album maintains the same feel and energy mostly throughout all the 11 tracks, that dark, gloomy stoner sound that you’d probably expect to hear from looking at the artwork. No one song really sounds any different to the one before or after it, but that is likely OK with a release like this, as changing the mood on one track would upset the flow, which seems to be the most important element here. This isn’t really my thing, but I’d imagine Andrew Haug would play this release over and over and over, so my advice to Devil To Pay would be to do a net search for Triple J and send a copy over to him. - Chris Hearn