Band : Red Fang
Album Title : Murder The Mountains
Label : Relapse Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux.
Release Date : 12/04//2011
Review : CD

Red Fang who have unleashed on the metal audience their Relapse’s debut CD have a great thing going for them. Playing a sludge/southern metal hybrid that sounds a lot like Mastodon, Melvins and Baroness with some ZZ Top/Tummler/Solarized/Black Label Society thrown in for good measure. Playing a style that takes a nod to the past, but is firmly footed in the future have given us a album of Metal-bliss. This Portland, USA quartet's 10-track affair screams for mass appeal and is perfectly poised for commercial rock radio success. 
Big riffs, strong use of modern hard rock's dynamic and dramatic elements, and a killer vocalist who pours the proper emotion into each track without sounding contrived are just a few of the positive tracks, like the Queens-like tune “Number thirteen” and the heavy-handed 70’s hard rock of "Wires" With one or two songs things become slow and  more poppy– but in fact the rocky variant is more their thing. All this fits amazingly, cool hooks, melodies and heavyweight lava riffs, that’s the way things work here. Just listen to the mammoth grooves of “The undertow” and you’ll know what I mean…

90/100

Cosmicmasseur.