ALBUM REVIEW: All Of The Dirt All At Once bring the VIRE
Melbourne based Australian heavy minimal duo All Of The Dirt All At Once will be releasing their third album titled ‘VIRE’, out 24.8.2018 on all major streaming and download services (iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp etc).
Kicking into touch with the first track is “They Burnt My Car”, a chunky bit of heavy metal groove of impressive proportions. The guitar and drums just take no prisoners as it lands blow after blow of incredible sound. Its almost stoner, an experimental sidestep of slowed down thrash. Undeniable energy just pervades throughout the track.
Onward now comes “Bomb It Up, Boy”, a grooved up riff laden track that is just heavy, full of chunky sound and delivers a solid tune. “I Used To See Japanese Doom Bands At Pony” while still a wall of heavy groovy sound has a slightly lighter catchy style but still perfectly formed for a good headbang session. A great tune that has a lot of replayability in it.
Next is “Funnigan’s Irish Bar” that is a fun heavy headbanging tune with thunderous drums reverberating through the speakers and a heavy bass sounding guitar pumping out a comprehensive set of rhythms that just keep punching you in the face. The whole tune just flows backward and forward.
A great driving beat from the drums and a chugging guitar rhythm in “Don’t Push Anyone In The River” is fantastic. It flows into almost a wall of noise before returning to the main sound. There’s a great little switch to a squealing riff after half way. All in all it really captures a prodigious heavy groove.
“Fuckin’ Hell (I’m A Banana)” is one of the best titles you may ever come across and the track is just as good. Again a driving groove pumps the tune right along with grunged up delight.
Next is “The Lone Pone” with its twisted heavy psychedelic start that just continues on through the end while maintaining a high as a kite riff right to the end.
Then comes “Black Dirt”, an incredibly thrashy track with a death metal vibe. You are almost waiting for a set of guttural growling vocals to kick in until you remember this is an instrumental.
“Filler” is certainly more than that. The quirky twerky guitar riffage alongside some serious drum tonnage makes this a great track.
The penultimate track is “I’m Just Gonna Go Take A Look Over Here” that has a superb catchy sound to it. All the while the sound is still heavy and grooved up making it perfect for a bit of headbanging.
Lastly, you have “I Keep Coming Up Over Every Horizon” which is a great way to go out. Full of heavy grooves, hard metal and has a good mixture of fast and slow pace to it.
Overall, instrumental metal is not everyone’s cup of tea, However, All Of The Dirt All At Once have produced an exceptional album that any metalhead would be happy to have in their collection. Its metal. Its heavy. Its catchy. Its full of rhythm, riffs, and grooves. And it’s a little bit different. It has that vague vibe of this is what The White Stripes would sound like if they produced an instrumental heavy metal album. A solid album with cracker tunes and not a vocalist in sight.
About
All Of The Dirt All At Once is a heavy minimal duo from Melbourne featuring Davd Lees (that’s spelled correctly) on guitar and Joe Forrester on drums. Like My Disco! on crack, AOTDAAO turns up the gain and cracks the snare just that little bit harder, creating a filthy, instrumental sound-storm bordering on doom, thrash and post-metal.
‘VIRE’ is the bands third album and by far their most varied, complex and up-to-11 offering to date. Track one, the 6 1/2 minute epic ‘They Burnt My Car’ has already been receiving plays on Triple R’s ‘Respect The Rock’, This Is Our Sound PBAFM and Triple J’s Unearthed Digital Radio Station. Track three, ‘I Used To See Japanese Doom Bands At Pony’, shows the band at it’s most fun, melodic and pop-punk. By contrast, track seven, ‘The Lone Pone’, is an ever-climbing mountain of ambient distortion over the perfect sound-setting for a 1950’s dramatic western. ‘VIRE’ was recorded, mixed and mastered at Tender Trap studios Melbourne late 2017-early 2018 by the band’s longtime collaborative engineer Sam Lowe.
