Cab Ride Home – The Intoxicated Massacre

What is a cab ride home? Well, it’s a chance to pass out in your own bed, someone elses couch, or if you’re lucky, the opportunity to end up balls deep at that fat bird from the bar. Oh, they’re also a brilliantly named band from Virginia. This beer fueled quintet has just pumped out their debut EP. Aptly titled The Intoxicated Massacre, it is a seven song litre filled to the brim with hoppy metal. Think mid-80’s Hetfield in his liver ruining prime, at the height of his blackout drunkenness, trying to play a few riffs for some lucky ladies backstage…that’s the sort of music Cab Ride Home embodies. It’s a healthy mix between Dethlok, Swashbuckle, and The Haunted. With songs that every honest beer swiller can relate to, like “Drunk on Arrival”, Cab Ride Home is a fun but strangely serious metal band…and let’s be honest, how often can you say that?

One of the more enjoyable things about the upstart Virginia based act is that they’re overtly less gimmicky than these dime a dozen donkey performers who dress up like circus acts. Having opened up for many a metal act at the world famous Jaxx in Virginia, Cab Ride Home have certainly outlined their intentions and can hardly be classified as a “local” act. They’re musically sound, put on a tight, energetic live performance, and have smartly invested in their future. You can never take yourself too seriously, but seeing five guys band together in the name of beer and metal with the hope to stake their claim in the industry – I’ll toast to that.

First listeners will easily realize that Cab Ride Home are far from the final polished product, with the EP occasionally seeming a little repetitive, but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with some proper production and musical guidance. Consider Cab Ride Home a prodigious college football talent, who under the guise of a good coach could actually make a few starts in the pro-leagues. With a little push, these marketable drunks in Cab Ride Home could really be one of those musical treasures that we crack open after drinking too much of the low carb mainstream guff. So why not blow the froth off a few and check out Cab Ride Home? It’s worthy of one last round.

Rating: 8/10
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Label: Unsigned

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