Pedro The Lion - Second Best

When the word Punk Rock is mentioned, images of high speed drums, enthusiastic guitarist, wailing vocalist spitting anti establishment rhetoric all conjure up as one unit against "the man." There are times bands who are of that genetic line evolve to from the conventional norm. Well, for a genre that seeks to fight conformity, it's no surprised some will take a different approach. Some pick up Post-Hardcore, some slow down with a massive destructive steamroller through Sludge while some just go in a droney depressive mode, coated with the thickest distortion they could assemble in their Dad's garage studio. Pedro The Lion still spew political rhetoric over an extremely stoned sounding 90s alt vocal line, eschewing the Ian McKaye bark associated with modern day punk and hardcore. I call this the Doom Metal equivalent of Alternative Rock and Punk. Thick, depressive distortion, and justifies the sad aura through the political reality they're painting. Prepare for that wall of noise as you click play.