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Music Albums Wednesday 13: Fang Bang (Rykodisc) 
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| Wednesday 13: Fang Bang (Rykodisc) |
| By Ben Saunders | |
Monday, 11 September 2006 After years of relative anonymity fronting the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, it’s ironic that Wednesday 13 only launched himself to wider recognition through collaborating with Slipknot’s Joey Jordinson in super-group side-project The Murderdolls, given that the ’dolls owed far more to his former group than the nine masked loons from Des Moines. Any way, with various other commitments preventing any quick follow up to their Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls, this is Wednesday 13’s second solo album in the meantime (after last year’s Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead and long-time fans will no doubt be pleased to know it’s back to his roots. While the Munsters-style horror image and ‘shocking’ lyrics (to songs like ‘My Home Sweet Homicide’ and ‘Till Death Us Do Party’) remain, Wednesday 13’s moved away from his more recent metal influences and back to embracing three-chord punk – wearing his influences on his sleeve with a cover of ‘R.A.M.O.N.E.S.’ included as a bonus track. In general, comment on particular songs is almost redundant, because most of them sound very much the same. If I had to pick a favourite, maybe ‘Curse Of Me’, while ‘American Werewolves In London’ also has a pleasing Wildhearts-style swagger, but few outstay their welcome, even if some (‘Morgue Than Words’) are a bit silly. It’s all been done before, admittedly, most recently by The Misfits; but for kids in need of an Alice Cooper for the 21st century, Wednesday 13 sits obligingly somewhere between Marilyn Manson’s shock rock and Andrew WK’s party attitude, and at the end of the day that’s not really too offensive. And, best of all, you have time to learn the words before Halloween too… (3/5) |
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