Album Review: Mikey wants to tell you a little something about one of his favorite bands - Direct Hit! and their album Domesplitter! Take a few minutes out of your day to check out his thoughts!
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I'm going to talk about what is probably my favorite org core band. I'm talking about "Dome Splitter" by direct hit. This album criminally under listened to in my opinion. The first song "Sneakers or Reces" is one of their more popular songs as "Two Million Listens", the next highest song has under 400,000 lessons. And I think that "Sneakers or Reces" is maybe the weakest song on this album. This album is so great. Direct hit is my favorite org core band, my favorite punk band, because they have all these weird pseudo concept albums that are around a theme that tell a story loosely connected together. They're all so out there. "Dome Splitter" is all about weird cerebral issues. Like Satan says, "The lead singer is having voices in his head. There's a part where Satan is talking to him and he gives them magical powers. I think the line is "What is it?" He gives me powers like the Wizard in Twin Towers, which is such a great line. Every single one of these songs is so heavy, punk, but also really catchy. And really goofy. The lyrics are fun and goofy, but also like pretty dark. My definitely hits on this, like the best songs I think in this playlist, which changes over time as I listen to this more, but like Monster in the Closet and Kingdom Come are both like so much fun to listen to. Monster in the Closet, it is like an adult having the, "Mom, there's a Monster in my Closet." There's a really great line, couldn't even look in the room to be sure. So hey, hey, just help me out. Let me a shotgun please for just one round. Hey, hey, just help me out. Let me an 8-gauge please put it in my mouth. But when you listen to it, it's such an upbeat part of this song and it's so like, oh man, it's so good. And then at the end, like at the end of the story, like the monster turns out to be real. And it's like, it didn't leave a single bit of meat. There's not even enough for positive police ID. It's such, all of their stuff is so fun in such a dark way. And if you don't like, like some of this is a little like more like violent in some of their stuff. They have like a whole album about drugs. They have a whole album about the end of the world. And then the album after that is about a bunch of different like afterlives. They're all so much fun and they're really good, catchy punk too. They are so like out there. I remember seeing them. They opened for bowling for soup. And I was so, I only went for them. Like I, bowling for soups great, but I went and saw them. I was like, I want to go see them. And I was like the only one in the crowd who knew who they were. And I was taking a log and like the bassist like this point and he's like, this guy gets it. I'm like, oh yeah, brother. It's criminal that more people don't listen to these guys because they're just Kingdom Cup is all about pipe bombs and cops. Directed is so fun. It's another one of those concept bands. I'm just going to call it a concept band where it's just like, man, every album has a concept and they just kind of like really lean into it and just kind of like, it really takes you into their headspace into the story that's being told. And that's always kind of the best part about those kinds of bands where they're like, we're going to play it straight and we're just going to like, we're not going to acknowledge the audience. We're going to tell a story and we're going to lean into it as hard as we can. And that's always the best part. Like that's something that I feel like I'm missing a lot of the times. I don't want them to be acknowledging me. I want them to be telling the story and going down the road that they want to go down. I just saw them not that long ago open for dwarves. And they, it seemed like they were playing a little bit from every album. It was almost like a co-headlining tour between them. But I would like to see them do an entire album front to back. It would be cool to see that. This would be almost impossible, but it would be really cool if they like had all of their albums kind of ready to go and then just rotated the album every night on a different night of the tour. So every city got a new album. I would go to every single one. And this album specifically has like, it's one of their earlier's. They did a reissue of it recently. They get a little more like, I don't know, lyrically complex is a bad way of putting it. A lot of this is more just words on a page and it's super fun and very catchy, but there's like less like connective substance between all the songs and this one compared to some of the others. Each of these songs are so good by their own individual merit rather than like as a collective. Because like, Nameless God is probably my favorite album by them. But this album has some of like the most fun songs on it rather than like a good like collective story. If nothing else, just like listening to it for the lyrics is super fun because they're insane. They feel like the diaries of a mad man. The music is also very good. The music is very interesting. It's like it has like the the electronic miss of it is also pretty fun. The voice can get grindy sometimes because he'll switch into just like the the scream that he has is very grindy, which I guess is a little bit of a turnoff to some people. But I never really minded it. I know sometimes if I'm listening to some direct it, I can get the old slap in the face because I'm listening to people yelling. Yeah, exactly. To wrap it all up. I mean, this is my ideal fun concept album. It's not too high stakes. There's not a ton of like lore behind it. It's just fun concept where it's all got a tying theme. Especially this one, not every song on here is like connected together. But every song is a fun little mini story to like digest. I love that about this. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]
