Raging Slab - Raging Slab

Raging Slab's first major-label album is pretty interesting in retrospect, in that it's both of its time and very clearly a harbinger of the future -- which of course is all the more bemusing in that the band was so clearly inspired by the past more than anything else. The quintet's obsession with '70s rock trudge and stomp -- perfectly evident with song titles like "Shiny Mama," "Get off My Jollies," and "San Loco" -- pretty soon would get full validation in the grunge explosion and even the nü-metal fallout later. Read More