Coma Beach Releases New Single: “Extreme Masochist”
My love for this band is not a secret. I’ve written two reviews on past songs “Jesus’s Tears” and “Another Song” in which I’ve compared the vocalist to Leatherface or The Beltones with occaissional backing vocals akin to the snotty 70’s British punk band. The two prior songs ran the gamut to fuzzed out overdriven distorted rocker to an Irish influenced punk song the likes I’d hear from Stiff Little Fingers or The Dropkick Murphys. So what prize did Coma Beach give us with “Extreme Masochist? To paraphrase on of my favorite movies, UHF, “What’s in the fucking boxing!”
This in-your face rocker comes at you with the energy of an 80’s hardcore band with the distorted guitar sound and high pitched snare sound reminiscent of grunge/metal rockers like Therapy?. The highlight for me was the guitar solo. In punk rock and hardcore, they are far less common than metal, so I’m always interested when one is thrown in there. This one is frantic and somehow messy but clean and purposeful and really resonates with the theme of the song which focuses on the internal anguish of life.
That theme being that “torture is pain” and “life is pain”, so life must be torture. If these dudes were Buddhists, they might add that life is pain because you want stuff, so if you want to stop the pain stop wanting stuff. But that is not evident in the lyrics. There seems to be no escape from this. This lack of escape is most evident in the viscerally delivered final vocals which end with an explosion that implies that destruction of self is the only solution.
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