ATOMIC BITCHWAX ::

ATOMIC BITCHWAX / CYRUSS
escape / vienna, austria
08th march 2006

ranking very high among my favorite new riff-rock bands are the infamously little known (at least hereabouts) ATOMIC BITCHWAX. consisting of chris kosnik of GODPSEED, keith ackerman (who used to play with probably my most favorite stoner band, SOLACE) and until recently also ed mundell of MONSTER MAGNET fame, who has now been replaced by the (imo much better) finn ryan. the most true thing that can be said about this band is this: they rock! another very true thing is that all of the musicians of this band in its incarnation at the time of this writing are unbelievably, gigantically talented musicians. especially impressive when guitar and bass play solos simultanously. talking of bass, it amazes me time and time again (second time now that i've seen this band perform live) the dexterity with which kosnik plucks the bass strings, never even vaguely missing a note or being out of time. and ackerman's appearance belies his skills. he is at least just as marvelous on the battery as he is skinny and timid if not several times more so - and he is very skinny and quite timid. there weren't that many people present, i'd guess about 30, but that didn't matter much, because it seemed like there wasn't a single person in the room that didn't really want to see this band and enjoyed their music.

almost forgot their support band. they were supposed to come with LEADFOOT but for some reason they didn't. instead local act CYRUSS jumped in. heavy and hard stoner riffing in the vein of KYUSS ( % must be a coincidence % ) with screamed vocals. check out their stuff on myspace.com.