Chin Music

Innerstrength Records

The masters of the billy club beatdown, BillyClub Sandwich from the Bronx is back with their first full length in their long history as a band. They've been kicking it in and around the NY scene for quite some time and it's about time they finally got this out. Combining a great mix of old school hardcore, NYHC, full scale mosh brutality, some metal love, and some hip hop for good measure. A billy club is what you're catching!
I'm sure many people will hate this and most likely for one of the following three reasons or maybe all three:

1. It's tough guy styled hardcore
2. The hip hop interludes etc.
3. The length of the album, people complaining about albums being too short so you think this would be a good thing.

Sadly people love adding stigmas to shit. Well, I love the so called "tough guy" hardcore, and I'm also an avid listener of good hip hop. So I'm definitely feeling what this band does. It kicks off with "Welcome to the show" with Martin welcoming the crowd and letting them know the deal about taking fights out of the club because the B.C.S. isn't going to stop playing, so don't bother trying. It provides a nice introduction for the title track "Chin Music". I loved this track when I heard it before this CD came out and that hasn't changed, a great song with lots of good mid tempo mosh parts, with some straight up beatdown parts, and then speeding things up for a bit. I really like the breakdown and the back up vocals that cap off the track. Another track I feel that's worth mentioning is "Justice Known", a song about white power nonsense at shows, and people are ignorant and close minded. This song is straight up heavy as hell. After the intro the song starts off with a breakdown and continues to beat you down with it's pounding rhythms throughout it's 5:33 duration. I'm guessing this is one of the tracks Muttley played the 7-string guitar on. Also I was feeling Infidel, even though the lyrics are a little misinforming because 9/11 isn't really tied with the war in Iraq unless they know something I don't. But this guys don't claim to be political majors. The song is tight, as most of the songs found on this album, nothing fancy and technical but sometimes the simpler things in life are far more powerful. The songs Tecato and Narco Cabron make me wish I paid more attention is Spanish class because that would've helped a little bit. And there's a Billy Joel cover of "Pressure", now I am not a fan of Billy Joel, at all. But their rendition of it made it a lot more enjoyable for my ears. I liked the artwork for Superhereos.... and I'm definitely liking the new shit. It's got a baseball feel, with a matrix beatdown burger on the cover, and a dope baseball card layout on the back kind of following the comic layout of the previous EP. The "Bodega" artwork Chris Bee from EGH did is tight as hell. As I have mentioned so many times before, better then Photoshop. This is hardcore ala Madball, District9, even some Killing Time "Brightside" era.
Thesis, I loved it. I liked the main songs, I liked the samples from Irate and Phil Vibes, the hip hop beat tracks. This is a tight release obviously a lot of time and effort was put into the crafting and making of this album. If released 5 or so years ago a lot more kids would probably be down with this band, with a lot more nut riding taking place. But instead many kids will call it cliche. But what the fuck do they know, if you know the deal and if you like real, this is how we do hardcore from the streets you should love this. Check this shit out.