antiReviews: Slaves On Dope �Inches From The Mainline

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Review by: Goth Brooks
Label: Divine/Priority Records
Track Listing:

1. Brotherly Love
2. Pushing Me
3. I Can't Die
4. Fallout
5. Thanks For Nothing
6. Inches From The Mainline
7. No More Faith
8. Stick It Up
9. Why
10. B*tch Slap
11. Kafka Bug
12. Leader of Losers

Slaves On Dope are a Canadian band who crosses more than just geographical borders with the full throttle intensity they carry out on the unsuspecting listeners of their Divine Recordings release "Inches From The Mainline."  The overall heaviness of this recording is staggering, the guitars are grinding, the drums and bass are hard, pounding, and solid, and Jason Rockman's fully committed vocals transcend well beyond most vocalists in this genre of modern music.  All these things must surely be the same things Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne liked about this band when making them the first signing to their Divine Recordings record label.

One of the cool things I discovered while listening to this disc is that there's more of Slaves On Dope's own creativity and personality forged into this CD than there is room for comparisons to any other bands out there today.  There are faint similarities in the strobe like nu-metal twang of guitarist Kevin Jardine's superior chops to those of Soulfly and Slipknot.  But where those bands guitar parts fall out and make way for endless Hip-Hop rants at the most inopportune times of a song, Jardine's guitar playing drives these songs all the way through from start to finish.  The whole band, which also includes Frank Salvaggio on bass and Rob Urbani on drums have created a certified Beast with "Inches from the Mainline."  Slaves On Dope has more in common with an old school metal band like Sabbath than they do with any of the carbon copy of one another nu-metal bands.

The disc starts off with "Brotherly Love", which is a the classic statement on which the newly elected William Jefferson Clinton makes his best attempt at cleaning up some of the skeletons in his closet before his term in office gets fully underway.  Does anybody remember the statement he made in regard to his little brother Roger Clinton's drug problems?  It goes, "I have a brother who's a drug addict, I'm very proud of him."  Yep, old Billy Boy sounds about as country dumb as country comes.  Good thing the Clinton intro isn't an elongated one and only takes up ten seconds of the listener's time.  After the intro Slaves On Dope launches right into the fast, rhythmic and unpredictable "Pushing Me."  Throughout the twelve songs on this disc that includes more of the consistent pummeling that "Pushing Me" sets the tone for, Slaves On Dope also executes tempo and chord changes that flow right into one another instead of throwing the listener off in a drastic way.  The lyrical theme throughout the disc runs a straight line through subjects of moving on and getting away from the things that negatively affect our lives.  Moving away from negativity promotes self-empowerment and self-empowerment enables us to move away from negativity.  All in all, a great band writing great songs and putting on killer live shows on their non-stop tour schedule.  Catch them when they come to your town and pick up �Inches From The Mainline" wherever CD's and tapes are sold.
 

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