Pulling Teeth
Vicious Skin
Chainsaw Safety Records
7/10
One second Pulling Teeth emits a crossover, pseudo-metal bombardment, the next the group spews crusty filth, making “Vicious Skin” a tough-as-nails, if all too brief foray into neck-snapping territory.
Singer Mike Riley snidely growls as the group tears through over-before-you-know it romps like “Rot Forgotten” while the rest of this five-piece outfit forms a noise-addled backdrop of blistering axework and closed-fist beats suitable for any sort of destruction you might have in mind.
There’s little doubt that Pulling Teeth has the ability to whip up concertgoers into a black-eyed, bloody-lipped frenzy, but hey – where’s the rest of the album?
In spite of the brevity herein, this one will get you smashing pictures and flipping over couches with the quickness.
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