### Gods Green Earth: Promo 2009

#### 23/10/09 || Daemonomania

Let me tell you how I got this promo. If you recall my review of the Down concert I attended on Sept. 11 of this fine year, you’ll remember I had an extra ticket to sell. The ticket was snapped up by a dude on Craigslist. We eventually met near the venue so as to make the exchange of currency for goods. So this Down-lovin’ individual turned out to be a pretty cool character (surprise, surprise) covered in tattoos who looked about as metal as a ten ton freight train steaming to Cleveland. And he handed me this here promo disc.

See, that’s the ORGANIC fucken way to hear new music. Not to download it, friends, to literally have it given to you by the artists themselves. So let’s all move into Lord K’s apartment in Sweden, attend every metal gig in the whole country, and hope to get promos and demos from the next Entombed, At the Gates, or Tears for Fears band to eventually make it big. It is gonna be awesome.

That retardation aside, the dude from GGE promised that his live shows were filled with strippers, metal, and a liquid extract of pure wonderful. The promo art has pictures of hot women silhouettes in platform heels. Plus look at those fucking band member duties. Needless to say I was not expecting some tough as nails in your face blasphemous technical deathstravaganza. Sure enough that ain’t what the band has to offer.

GGE are kind of an odd combination of Pantera, stoner rock, and maybe even a hint of Red Hot Chili Peppers funk metal. Having not heard this brew in a long while, it tastes better than it probably should. Mr. Brawler’s vocals have a very strong Anselmo vibe and are generally pretty good, except for the one awful bit where he tries to sing and comes across as totally tone deaf. He unleashes some real deal howling at the end of wittily titled “Nobel piece of ass prize” (comedy gold) – something as a DM fan I wish would happen more often. Mr. Rock has got himself a nice phat bag of riffs to pull from and a good stoner guitar tone, and busts out a nice solo or two to boot. Mr. Denass is a skilled bassist and even brings Flea to mind here and there. Last but not least, no matter how fond Mr. Madrock is of A2M his drumming still needs a bit of work. You can’t beat folks like Joe LaCaze at this tempo.

Lyrically, Brawler discusses such pressing topics as the hottest chick he’s ever fucked, getting drunk enough to fuck his annoying wife, and buttfucking an Amsterdam prostitute. Diversify your bonds! Still, all of it is done with tongue firmly in asscheek, and gets some hyucks. Production is quite good for a promo/demo/whatever. Best track on here is easily the aforementioned “Nobel…” – it has a catchy chorus, jam session in the middle, and Brawler’s heaviest vocals at the end. Keep pumping out more like this and maybe the strippers won’t be necessary to get some attendees at yer shows.

Shit, I just over-analyzed the hell out a demo. My apologies. Anyway, give the NYC metalheads in GGE a listen. They might just shock us all and make a name for themselves. Then you’ll wish you had been camping out on my floor and had organically received this disc yourself.

- Information
- Released: 2009
- Website: Gods Green Earth MySpace
- Band
- Rick Brawler: vocals, making the ladies wet
- Izzy Rock: guitars, broad wrangler
- Dennis Dennass: bass in yo face
- Jay Madrock: drums and A2M

- Tracklist
- 01. Tears of the Baltic Sea
- 02. Nobel piece of ass prize
- 03. Cruising stoned