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Screaming death
BY CHRIS RUCKER
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New Bedford’s A Wilhelm Scream hit the Pennywise/Bad Religion speed-pop-punk sweet spot on their debut, Mute Print (on Dexter Holland’s Nitro imprint), and this month, the quintet are in pre-production for the follow-up. Formerly known as Smacking Isaiah, they’ll be heading out to the mountains of Colorado to record with punk-rock all-star Bill Stevenson (the former Black Flag/Descendents drummer) at the Blasting Room with house producer Jason Livermore. After recording wraps, they’ll move on to Japan with Strike Anywhere while Nitro readies the as-yet-untitled disc for July release. Nitro A&R dude Sean Ziebarth, who also signed Lost City Angels to the label way back when, credits all the high hopes for AWS’s new disc to hard touring — together with Rise Against, Strung Out, and home-town faves the Explosion — as well as last month’s blizzard. "The storm that hit Boston provided the lockdown they needed to practice all their mad guitar riffs," he jokes. "It’s paid off. Everyone’s talking about them: bands, fans, and the press. Now it’s time for them to hunker down and crank out another amazing record." Boston’s latest hardcore sensations, Death Before Dishonor, are proud to follow in the footsteps of local heroes Blood for Blood, Wrecking Crew, and Slapshot — but you won’t find them darkening the streets of the city this month or next. Added at the last minute to Agnostic Front’s European "Unity Tour" with fellow Massachusetts maulers Diecast, DBD will be spending this week on a whirlwind spin through Barcelona, Lyon, London, and towns in Switzerland and Germany, and they’ll still be over there — Münster, to be specific — when their latest album, Friends, Family, Forever, is released through Salem’s Bridge9 on March 22. Following on their ultraviolent debut, True till Death (on Philly’s Spook City Records; some of you thugs may also have seen ’em on the infamous Boston Beatdown 2 DVD, or heard their cover of Billy Idol’s "Rebel Yell" on RockVegas’s Boston 2004 comp), the new disc is fierce: their breakdowns are heavy, the choruses boom, and if you’re planning on seeing them live, be prepared to duck and cover. Virginia’s Magic Bullet Records is well known to local record hogs for putting out Stephen Brodsky’s solo records and limited-edition Cave In vinyl. Tonight (February 24), Brodsky opens the label’s package tour at the Paradise, which has another of Magic Bullet’s awesome Boston signings, On Fire, headlining with Caspian. In other news, Columbia has announced a May 4 release date for Joe Perry, on which the Aerosmith guitarist drops the "Project" and goes officially solo. Included on the 13-song disc (recorded in his home studio, the Boneyard, before he moved from the Boston ’burbs to new digs in Vermont) are new recordings of Perry-penned tunes that didn’t make Nine Lives, Just Push Play, and Honkin’ on Bobo, plus covers of Woody Guthrie’s "Vigilante Man" and the Doors’ "Crystal Ship." Chris Rucker is the host of New England Product, which airs Sundays from 9 to 10 p.m. on WFNX 101.7 FM.
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