Ugly Animals

retox, a blistering four-piece who made their live debut mere months ago, join ipecac's roster with the band's debut album,'ugly animals'. the band members are justin pearson (the locust, all leather, some girls, swing kids), gabe serbian (the locust, cattle decapitation, holy molar, rats eyes), michael crain (festival of dead deer) and thor dickey. sonically, the band's crude and primitive aspects make sense in this day and age. the band is a reaction to the world that the members and their comrades have lived in: shitty childhoods, bureaucratic frustration, and the overall justification of continuous war. that sensibility coupled with a modern artistic delivery, the music is educated as well as furious, and most importantly, blurring genre lines of punk, hardcore, thrash, metal and whatever else seems fitting to the critics.