Bison - Earthbound
Bison is the kind of band that you pump your fist to. Like on The Simpsons when Homer says that when he hears a good song he nods his head as if to say "yes, yes, yes, this rocks?" Bison is that kind of band.
They're kind of a Canadian cross between riff-rocky stuff like Black Cobra, Lair of the Minotaur, and The Sword and more straight-up skate thrash like Municipal Waste or What Happens Next (someone from this band was in that band S.T.R.E.E.T.S. if that means anything to you. If you haven't heard them, really, all you need to know is that the name stands for "Skateboarding Totally Rules Everything Else Totally Sucks." Bow down before the greatest acronym in history, mortal.).
Bison aren't going to change the world or blow anyone's mind, but if you want to rock out for a while you could do a whole lot worse than this record, especially if you're into any of the above mentioned bands. The riffs are solid, the songs are fun, and I can imagine a small room full of people having a blast at a Bison show.
At the end of the day, however, the most important thing to know about Bison is that their album features drawings of the band members of the inside. For real. Let me describe some of these guys, as I think my descriptions will give you a pretty good handle on what to expect from the record. First off, there's a guy with shaggy hair, a big beard, and aviator sunglasses. There's a little known law in Canada, where these guys are from, that says that if you wear aviator sunglasses and sport a giant neck beard you're legally obligated to rock. That guy isn't about to join a ska band, is all I'm saying. Above him is a guy who looks like Jay from Clerks, beanie and everything, but with a lazy-guy beard. Next to him is a guy with a pencil-thin creep-stache so fierce that it would be considered probable cause for the police to search your car for drugs in 12 states.
I actually have a theory about this. It's called "Todd's creep-stache, neck beard, and aviator sunglasses Theorem of Rock." It states that if you get n guys who look like this in a room, where n is defined as the number of guys with creep-staches, neck beards, and aviator sunglasses, and hand them y instruments, where y is defined as the number of instruments that n guys need to rock the fuck out, the odds of them bringing the fucking ruckus are (n)(y) * a bajillion.
Bison in no way disprove this theory.
Nicely done video of Bison. Observe the facial hair in action!
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