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He Who Cannot Be Named - Sunday School Massacre
“Nekkid” Dwarves legend goes solo
San Francisco “scum punks” Dwarves have generally alternated between the offensive and the gross, so you’d expect a solo album from their bassist to be along similar lines. Instead, He Who Cannot Be Named has written an album of catchy, unthreatening pop-punk with lyrics about hatred and violence that wouldn’t shock a 12-year-old.
That’s not to say it’s bad music – some of Sunday School Massacre is catchy as hell – but anyone who’s witnessed him playing naked with Dwarves might be in for a surprise. Toxine is the sort of novelty horror ballad that listeners of a certain age will recall from the school playground, while Daddy Is Dead is sub-Misfits hardcore punk that you’ve heard many, many times before. Even the presence of guests such as ad hoc Dwarf and Queens Of The Stone Age alumnus Nick Oliveri doesn’t elevate this album beyond the level of amusingly mundane. Mind you, songs such as Machine Boy come so close to the Green Day/Offspring mainstream that you could almost imagine them on the soundtrack of an HBO teen soap. Stranger things have happened.
MVD | Audio MVD 5009 A
Reviewed by Joel McIver
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