{"id":109837,"date":"2021-10-08T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=109837"},"modified":"2021-10-08T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:41:46","slug":"premiere-rat-punch-riff-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/premiere-rat-punch-riff-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Rat Punch – “Riff City”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the kool-aid they warned you about drinking.<\/p>\n

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Ok, so close your eyes and imagine you\u2019re one of those rich, Silicon Valley types that thinks taking ayahuasca is a good shortcut to enlightenment. You charter a private jet down South America way, paid in bitcoin, with your investment banker bros for the all-inclusive rich-gringo-ripoff package, and you all gag down the brew of your Burning Man festival-endorsed shaman and spirit-guide. And right as you start to feel something coming on, the old native looks you dead in the eyes and starts laughing maniacally. You just bought the ticket, time to take the ride — straight to Alice in Wonderland\u2019s PTSD nightmares. You just had your first taste of Rat Punch<\/b>.<\/p>\n

If you happen to fit the description above and\/or love to wax poetic about lofty corporate values and the value-add of your company’s core principles and true north, then stop reading — right now.\u00a0 In fact, please close the tab with TovH and wipe your browser history then ignite your computer to make sure you never stumble around these parts again.\u00a0 “Riff City”<\/em>, the second single off Rat Punch’s forthcoming album It’s a Drink<\/em> wasn’t written for you.\u00a0 It was written about you.<\/p>\n

True to the band’s name, the song is about the hollow meaninglessness behind the daily rat race.\u00a0 The song is a slogging mid-paced sturm und drang<\/em> of riffs, both the guitar and the “I hate my boss” kind.\u00a0 If that sounds a bit vanilla to you, then remember that this is a band of (presumably) coherent individuals that chose to name itself “Rat Punch”.\u00a0 The song has maybe the weirdest (in a good way) guitar solo I’ve ever heard on a grindcore track; it sounds like an epileptic theremin on speed.\u00a0 And the singer delivers his anti-work screed in a rattish snarl that sounds like Dave Mustaine drunk and shouting from the back of a police car after a whiff of helium.\u00a0 Even for well-tread topics like “fuck this job”, Riff City<\/em> stands out as a reminder that your comfort zone has never been what grindcore is about.<\/p>\n

If you like your extreme music experiments cooked up by (out of?) mad scientist lab rats, check out the video for “Riff City”<\/i> below. And keep your third eye peeled for It\u2019s a Drink<\/strong>, which drops\u00a0 October 15th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n