Komatsu
Recipe for Murder One

And I thought Komatsu only was manufacturing heavy machinery like forklifts, dump trucks, forest machinery and so one. But apparently it can also be a Dutch stoner metal band who now gives us the recipe for murder one, a recipe I know I can have some use for since there are some I know about that deserve being murdered. So perhaps these Dutch fellows can help me with that problem, but at least they cover their recipe in a very nice package with a cool raven on it. Looks exciting I have to say.

They offer up heavy stoner metal, powerful and strong – kind of like some Komatsu machine made for doing heavy work. Rather typical of stoner when looking at the voice and the style, one can hardly call them as ground-breaking as some heavy drilling machine – fairly typical I would say. But it is well a produced album and rather attractive-sounding, an album that will certainly appeal to fans of the stoner rock/metal genre and perhaps even to a wider audience despite not really being that exciting creatively.

I think we can mostly liken it to a Komatsu 901 harvester, a machine that relentlessly makes its way through the forest leaving nothing in its way standing. That is what these guys do with the metal forests, stonering them down with their relentless and powerful music. Their heaviness is appealing and their music is good even though it may not break any new ground, just the same old forests as many other harvesters before them.

So what about the recipe for murder one? Is it all its cracked up to be? Well, even though said name is the name of the best track on the album and the raven artwork is attractive and menacing at the same time, it is not that useful if you are looking to get rid of someone. For that information I will have to look elsewhere, but at least I have gotten some pretty good musical entertainment.

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