Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol - Grease Beast
Artist: Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol
Album: Grease Beast
Released: July 25, 2019
Label: Earthbound Audio and Media
Band Members:
- Leo Lydon - Vocals/Guitar
- Sean St. Germain - Drums
- Aaron Metzdorf - Bass/backing vocals
When is a metal band not a metal band but it is also definitely a metal band? I don’t know but, Grease Beast is fucking heavy and it rocks. Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol frontman, Leo Lydon, takes fuzzy, hard driving, rock riffs and plays them on a guitar suitable for a Slipknot cover band. This lands them in some murky lands, genre-wise but that is the main reason this EP rules. At only 4 tracks long, the journey is over way too soon but, luckily for anyone reading this now, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol released a full length album in 2020, “Burger Babes...From Outer Space!” and it kicks just as much ass as this.
Top Tracks:
2: “Gravedigger”
This track starts off with one of the very few mellow points on the whole EP. It doesn’t last for long as the rest of the band joins in to beef up the sludgy intro guitar riff. For about the first 3:00 of this song you are teetering on the edge of a heavy breakdown. Every change up between different riffs and little fills feels like it's about to go off. Then, finally it pays off BIG TIME and you get sent out on a seriously brutal last minute of jam.
3: “Grease Beast”All three band members on the title track of this EP are in peak form but it is the drums that really steal the show. The way Sean St. Germain switches from playing super straight to synching up with the rhythm of the bass and guitar makes this song full of groove. He also punches up the song with some big, slow, Bill Ward-esque rolls and Bonham-flavored fills and cymbal work (especially to close out the song).