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Album Review: Pitbull Terrorist - Contraband International Audio
Review by Danny Crombie - October 24, 2009
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Pitbull Terrorist is a musical syndicate of international freedom fighters hiding from the authorities in Finland of all places; they’re trapped in a web of acronyms, terrorist conspiracies and raging thrash music. All those filthy guys dressed in black, camo and Crass patches at your local punk gig will love this record though how they’ll afford it I don’t know!
The music contained in Pitbull Terrorist’s new record Contrabrand International Audio is pure filthy thrash and is merciless from start to finish. I always think it’s brilliant when an album barely has more minutes than the amount of tracks on it, my favourite one is In God We Trust Inc by Dead Kennedy’s and CIA is a similar deal; only one of the eighteen tracks within actually makes it over the 2 minute mark and that’s because there’s a sound-clip at the start of it.
The gimmick of it all is very funny but there’s also a serious social comment to it all: the lyrics are indistinguishable but you get the drift of what it’s all about with titles like The Shit Of The System, Economaniac and Let The Gods Do The Fighting. Politics and music are a hard one to get right and there are only a few people like Joe Strummer, Jello Biafra, Ian Mackaye and Woody Guthrie who made brilliant music whilst saying something serious.
These guys obviously aren’t in the same realms of punk legends like the aforementioned or even crust favourites like Oi Polloi but their music will almost definitely be appreciated in the small circles it was created for.
I’ll be totally honest – I hate crust with a fervent passion and I’m sorry about that, as an unbiased reviewer I can tell you though that Pitbull Terrorist is a band who care about the music they’re playing, the subjects they’re singing about and they are most certainly a bunch of loud and angry guys.
© Danny Crombie
