Album Review
Teenage Bottlerocket - They Came From The ShadowsTeenage Bottlerocket – They Came From The Shadows

Teenage Bottlerocket may have been around since 2001 but in the UK they have been pretty unheard of until earlier on in the year when they got snapped up by Fat mike’s Fat wreck Chords who have now released the bands forth studio album ‘They Came From The Shadows’ which could well be my album of the year at the end of 2009 as everything about Teenage Bottlerocket and their new album is right up my street.

The album starts with ‘Skate Or Die’ a song that takes me back to my teenage years when the skate punk scene was in and everyone had Mohawks, loved skating and loved fast paced catchy punk music, sadly the scene died out when the emo scene became the new cool and skate punk has been pretty non-existent since then but Teenage Bottlerocket are here to help make the scene live on, ‘Skate Or Die’ is fast, fun and everything that punk rock should be, it has powerfull punk style guitar riffs and features lyrics that many old skateboarders can relate to with frontman Ray Carlisle singing “Don’t be a pussy there’s no need to cry, so shut up and get rad, cuz now it’s time to skate or die’.

‘Don’t Want To Go’ reminds me of The Ramones and my favourite ever skate punk band the 4FT Fingers, the song is extremely fast paced and features big chant-a-long vocals with lyrics of “I don’t wanna go o o o o”.

‘Bigger Than Kiss’ is a tongue in cheek song that will make you laugh as it is a song that is about the Detroit city make up wearing men who think they are cool, the song is another fast paced fun track and features hilarious lyrics such as “Detroit couldn't rock itself out of a paper bag, Gene Simmons looks kinda cool But Paul Stanley kinda looks like a jag, Ace Frehley can play guitar But he ain't no fucking Kerry King, So get your ass out of the way Here comes a rock revolution”.

My favorite track on the album is ‘Skate Or Die’ mainly for the reason that the song brings me back to my roots and rewinds me back ten years or so when the music scene was at its best, another track that really stands out to me is ‘Not OK’, the song is a good sing-a-long track where the instrumental work features everything that’s good about punk rock, and the last track that stands out for me is ‘Fatso Goes Nutzoid’ mainly because the song actually is nuts and crammed with fast paced guitar riffs and melodic vocals.

‘They Came From The Shadows’ features 14 tracks that run for around 2 minutes each on average which means that the album runs for just over 30 minutes which is just about right for a punk rock album, if you like your punk rock fast and straight to the point then ‘They Came From The Shadows’ is the album for you, Teenage Bottlerocket deserve to be massive even though they are just happy to be in a band playing punk rock, I really hope the guys head over to the UK really soon as I will be there.

5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Teenage Bottlerocket - Band
Kody (Guitar, Vocals)
Ray (Guitar, Vocals)
Brandon (Drums)
Miggy (Bass)
 Track Listing
1. Skate Or Die
2. Dont Want To Go
3. Bigger Than Kiss
4. Do What?
5. Not OK
6. Forbidden Planet
7. Call In Sick
8. Fatso Goes Nutzoid
9. Without You
10. Tonguebiter
11. Be With You
12. The Jerk
13. They Came From The Shadows
14. Todayo
 Band Related Links
Teenage Bottlerocket Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?