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The Pain Of Beauty
Hole Patrol
May 31, 2008
Reviewed by Carmine Rose

Hole Patrol by Metal Shop
Year: 2003
Genre: Rock

Song Titles:   
Disc 1  
01) Satan's Intro 1:12
02) Big Boobs 3:32
03) Is It Hot In Here 0:37
04) Hell's On Fire 3:00
05) Fat Girl 4:15
06) Michael Falls In Love 0:21
07) Stripper Girl 3:34
08) Ginger Pusses Out 0:21
09) Metal Shop

This band is no stranger to any of you Metal Sludgers. You knew them as Danger Kitty, Metal Shop, and they now call themselves Metal Skool. At the time of this release, they were known as Metal Shop. If you look at this band without a year or a name, you'd think they'd come straight out of the 80's. Their music sounds that way too, I'll tell you about each song.

1) Satan's Intro is just an introudction to the album, there's no score for this one, because there's no music. This is supposedly Satan talking about Metal Shop as if they were sent from Hell.

2) Big Boobs 9/10

The music is totally awesome here. Immediately makes you think of Headbanger's Ball back in the day. The lyrics here are completely lewd If you thought Spread Eagle was nasty, think again! The lyrics here make Spread Eagle look squeaky clean. Example from the song: "If my mom had tits like hers I'd still be breast feeding." No wonder Metal Sludge likes these guys so much.

3) Is It Hot In Here

Talking and no music, so I don't rate this one. It's Michael talking with Rachet talking about what they think Hell's like. Here's what I think: Not a place anyone in their right mind would want to be.

4) Hell's On Fire 10/10

Killer fucking musiciainship once again, these guys really compliment each other with music. The title is self-explanatory, it's a song about Hell. I want to toss my hair around to this song!!!! I think I'll do just that. If my hair was short, which it isn't, I'd grow it just so I could toss it around to this song!

5) Fat Girl (Thar She Blows) 9.5/10

Same story here, great music. This song is about having a crush on some fat chick, cause the dude was desperate. This song is a ballad by the way, with some of the best musicianship I've ever heard, with a double-lead solo.

6) Michael Falls In Love

Another talking skit. One thing they say: "We couldn't the crabs out the band couch for like three months."

7) Stripper Girl 9/10

Metal Shop has come off to me as killer musicians. This is another ballad. Now the lyrics are like: "I want to you love you in a 69, hey where'd you put that coke? Cool. (snorts)."

8) Ginger Pusses Out

Very smart of Ginger to puss out, cause Michael's toking up here. I'm as much a metal guy as them, but I'm for sex, drugs and rock n' roll minus drugs.

9) Metal Shop 10/10

This song is kind of their theme song, or was when they were called Metal Shop. They start reciting the same voice skit from the middle of "Big Boobs" right after the solo. Then they say "Dude wait, this sounds like that thing we did like two songs ago (even though it was more like four songs ago)." Then they say, "Who cares, no one's gonna listen to the last song on a record anyway." Great music once again.

Comments

As I've said repeatedly, they have a knack for writing awesome music. I can tolerate lewd lyrics, I even like it. But Metal Shop does it to the point of stupidity. Anyway, check this out, the music rules, this would have been a smash in 1986. The only real problem here is there's not enough songs.

http://metalskoolrocks.com/

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Score Key:
0: (scratches chalkboard with fingernails) ahh...I'm relieved
1-2: Weaker than weak.
3-4: Mediocre
5-6: Average
7-8: Good to Very Good
9: Great
10: Masterpiece
11+: How did I ever live without this?