author: Trent Ramseyer, Whores of Tijuana
Due to the recent destruction of my inner ears due to MLDM's riffage you will soon receive a letter from our lawyers.
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author: HK Magazine
It's half Rage Against the Machine, half Mastodon, with some great guitar hooks, relentless drumming, and the occassional melodic interval...
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author: Stonerrock.com
I believe the children are our future. Treat them poorly and they'll come up with something like Molten Lava Death Massage. It's a necessary evil, because if this allegedly still-in-high-school three-piece was treated well, they'd probably come up with some saccharine sounding crap.
Instead, they wrote the nine-song Eye of Ra. Death Is Never Sated, the lead track, starts off on a misleading mellow note, but after its one-minute running time, the band bursts out the gate with Bayonet. Like the remaining songs on Eye of Ra, Bayonet hovers between sludge, hardcore, and straightforward metal (with the occasional nod to stoner rock, as on the instrumental Adam's Field Trip to Hell). The album sounds like it was recorded live, which gives it a raw, punchy feel. I get the feeling that had they spent some more time recording, it wouldn't have such an immediate sound.
That Let's just fucking knock this thing out mentality of Eye of Ra occasionally works against it, as some of the drumming seems off. Nothing major, just moments where I got the feeling a second take wouldn't have been a bad idea. But the band compensates for that with stellar tracks like Tecumseh and the Prophet and the title song, which ends the album on a brutal note.
The best thing about Molten Lava Death Massage is their age. That they came out of the gate this strong is promising as hell, and I'd like to hear what they come up with next.
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author: BC Magazine
Mammoth, unremitting, and, most importantly, groovy, is how lead singer Indy Shome describes his band Molten Lava Death Massages first album, Eye of Ra. And thats a fair description. Molten Lava Death Massage are three private school boys on a mission to blow your ear drums with screaming power chords, pulsating drumming and an improbably mature growl from 17-year-old whizz kid Shome. Ben Gagnon (bass) and Andrew Chu (drums) join Shome to form a trio that produces the noise and energy of a five-piece. Shome says the most satisfying thing about the album was just putting something out for people to hear, and picks the title track The Eye of Ra as his favourite because its the slowest and therefore, I feel, the most foreboding of the songs and I love the ending!
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