The Tug Fork River Band - Vulture

The Tug Fork River Band? Yeah, not sure what they're going for with that name either especially since they're from Indiana. Oh well, I'm sure it holds meaning to them and what's in a name anyway? I'm hear to talk music, unfortunately the music isn't much better than their band name.

This 5 track ep is the followup to 2009's debut Catch for Us the Metal. All 5 tracks were not easy to get through. The easiest way to sum them up to say take one part generic metalcore, add in a healthy dose of the worst of Pantera influenced bands, sprinkle in what Killswitch Engage were doing in 2004, and top it all off with any hard rock you could hear on your local radio station.

To me this is what music fans of Five Finger Death Punch and recent Lamb of God would make. It's all boring and all generic. Absolutely nothing stood out to me in the way of the music. A lot felt forced, contrived, and monotonous. This is especially true of the beyond played out southern rock riffs and definitely true of the clean vocals over the choruses. The only positive I could find in this was the production, it had a nice sound. It's just a shame it wasn't good music to go with it. I do hope the song title Piggly Wiggly refers to the grocery store chain.

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