From the murky waters of the River Maumee, outside the city streets but within earshot of its fiery lights, pulses a noise so vulgar the bank’s inhabitants duck for cover. When Riverbottom Nitmare Band takes the stage, fellas grab your ladies cuz mommy IS getting touched tonight!
This trio of chainsaw guitars, head throbbing drums, and gut dropping bass doesn’t disappoint with its debut album The Way It Is, Same As the Way It Was. The album’s opening anthem “Riverbottom Nitemare” pays homage to the forefathers of heavy metal but in doing so raises the bar for future bands to come.
Within measures however, the album takes a ferocious turn to hardcore lewd punk rock. Pete Dio takes the listener on a roller coaster tale of corrupt politicians, violent ex-girlfriends, orgasmic jewelry, rape murder and pillagery, kinky intercourse, and last but not least…love.
Though to categorize this band amongst the likes of Motorhead, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Bad Brains, and Zeke would be unjust. It’s an easy correlation but its lineage should also be traced further back to the likes of Johnny Cash. The Way It is, Same As the Way It Was should have shattered before completion with its onslaught of deafening drum tracks and franticly overdriven guitars. Instead this record impressively hums on “steady as a train.”
Though to categorize this band amongst the likes of Motorhead, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Bad Brains, and Zeke would be unjust. It’s an easy correlation but its lineage should also be traced further back to the likes of Johnny Cash. The Way It is, Same As the Way It Was should have shattered before completion with its onslaught of deafening drum tracks and franticly overdriven guitars. Instead this record impressively hums on “steady as a train.”
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