Vinyl Review: "Have A Nice Trip" by Evil Triplet

Have A Nice Trip

This one is a little bit late, but let's totally pretend like 2018 and 2019 have merged into one super year for music.

This year, I've been lucky enough to have two of my favorite avant garde metal acts releasing a new record. (This is where we're pretending, because this album came out in 2018...)

Follow up records for those odd artists are always a great time, but those times are fraught with peril really.

Anyway, let's talk about Evil Triplet for a moment shall we?

Hailing from the wild world of Austin, TX, Evil Triplet is a...well they're a band..of some sort. In the vaguest sort of way, they're a metal band. They play riffs, guitar solos, and sing about aliens and Satan.

So, that's metal enough for this bloke.

If you need more penciling in and pigeonholing of them, it's probably best to say that the play Evil Triplet music. Look, most times...when someone says this, it's a damned lie and we all know it, but I can think of no other bands that play in the same style, but others may play in the same vein.

Evil Triplet

The other avant garde metal group was Leechfeast...and like Village Creep EP, Have A Nice Trip seems like a more polished effort from a more mature group.

Instead of just being wholly out there, Evil Triplet has crafted songs. They might have as much structure as Stairway To Heaven, but at least your average human is going to recognize this as music and not this mish mash of sounds.

They even use guitar solos to accentuate the songs rather than just posting them wherever they see fit. But, then again, perhaps I've just been indoctrinated into what they do.

I mean, I've been listening to the predecessor for over two years now and just love that Double Album like no other.

The vocals have a new dimension to them...for lack of a better term...they go into angrier territory than the last release.

By changing up the vocal style, it allows for some of the ear fatigue from previous records to fall away. That's the biggest change in the entire sound.

Whereas their first album became a little bit samey after a time. It may not have needed to be a double album, but Have A Nice Trip should have been a longer album because they added more colors to their box of crayons.

If a band has an easier time expressing itself via different musical motifs, the band is only going to improve and their songwriting will naturally improve along with it.

Just ask fans of Ace Frehley what happens when an artist is still playing the exact same thing 40 years down the road.

As with most Super Secret Records releases, the album is on 180 Gram Black Vinyl and includes a download card. There's no insert with lyrics, just the sleeve for the record.

It's an absolutely noiseless pressing. All that's coming out of my speakers is the abject crazytown of Evil Triplet.

It's not a high-deluxe-all the trimmings package, but that stuff isn't cool forever like music is.

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