{"id":428,"date":"2013-05-04T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2013-05-04T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T06:09:26","slug":"review-36-crazyfists-bitterness-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/review-36-crazyfists-bitterness-the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: 36 Crazyfists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/36-crazyfists-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/36-crazyfists-300.jpg\" alt=\"36 Crazyfists Review Bitterness the Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/36-crazyfists-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/36-crazyfists-300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>36 Crazyfists<br \/>\n&#8220;Bitterness the Star&#8221;<br \/>\n(Roadrunner Records)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/36-crazyfists-300.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>36 Crazyfists is named after a a Jackie Chan movie. I like Jackie Chan, but not in a pissed off, karate-on-the-dance floor kind of way. He\u2019s more of a \u201cRush Hour\u201d comedy icon to me. But these Alaskans chose this to be the moniker for their interesting approach to melodic hard rock. That\u2019s right\u2014I said Alaskans.<\/p>\n<p>Their sound is passionately charged post-hardcore with deep grooves like the most righteous Deftones jam, but Brock Lindow\u2019s vocals are enough to make me want to throw this disc right in the trash. When he\u2019s screaming, the Fists are one above all. But he\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0scream one tenth as often as he needs to, and his warbly Midnight Oil style of singing is a real buzzkill. This could have been the bomb dot com too, because the music is such a devastating sonic explosion. Colossal riffs and unforgettable melodies ooze out of every speaker hole.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Holt just about creates musical\u00a0ecstasy\u00a0with his guitar, while Mick Whitney keeps the low end nice and tight, and Thomas Noonan (insert Caddyshack joke here) drums me right into a seizure. Guest appearances by NORA\u2019s Carl Severson on the track \u201cOne More Word\u201d and Skinlab\u2019s Steev Esquivel on \u201cBury Me Where I Fall\u201d are only there to disappoint, leaving me with a taste of what could have been. Almost so good, but not quite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36 Crazyfists &#8220;Bitterness the Star&#8221; (Roadrunner Records)\u00a0 36 Crazyfists is named after a a Jackie Chan movie. I like Jackie Chan, but not in a pissed off, karate-on-the-dance floor kind of way. He\u2019s more of a \u201cRush Hour\u201d comedy icon to me. But these Alaskans chose this to be the moniker for their interesting approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[89,1342,3600,6011],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}