Fake Shark Real Zombie
You don’t have to be a connoisseur of Italian horror movies to get where Fake Shark-Real Zombie! is coming from. Survive one blast-furnace performance or a visit to the band’s myspace page and you’ll get it—the Vancouver-based act (which takes its name from a scene in Lucio Fulci’s 1979 movie Zombie II) is loud, aggressive and raging, for sure. But it possesses a healthy sense of humour to go with its tectonic-plate-shifting sound as well.
Since hatching less than three years ago, Fake Shark-Real Zombie! has emerged as one of the West Coast’s most lethal weapons. Mixing screamo vocals, spooky ska, off-kilter metal, gang vocals, and whatever else is necessary to achieve their galvanizing, electrifying ends. Their latest digital release titled Angel Lust EP (January 9th, 2009) unleashes torrents of noise like “Running For The Razorsâ€, a track featuring blood curdling screams and creepy falsettos over cyclonic punk beats next to “Sestrillevanteâ€, a lullaby by comparison, whose lyrics will leave you wondering whether sleep will bring you sweet dreams or nightmares.
The group’s sound has earned it opening slots for acts like Mindless Self Indulgence, the Klaxons, Test Icicles and Genghis Tron, where Fake Shark’s polarizing show leaves audiences asking whether they’ve just witnessed the saviours of new millennium rock or if they should call a lawyer. The band has earned a rep for shows marked by confrontations with audience members, with each other, and with their own equipment. And, while North Americans are still catching up to Fake Shark’s post-post-everything anarchy, audiences elsewhere, like Asia and the UK, have taken to the band like, well, a shark to blood. Fake Shark is especially loved in Japan, where adoring fans mob its members, where the band members lick the faces of businessmen, and where Vinyl Junkie Records released its debut, Zebra! Zebra! in 2007.
So yes, when it comes to Fake Shark-Real Zombie! you can imagine a battle between a shark and a zombie, as Fulci did in his classic, gore-spattered film. Or you can imagine a cage match between a Ray Harryhausen Cyclops and a Mexican wrestler, or Henry Rollins taking a wrench to Larry the Cable Guy. Either way, you’re in for an experience you won’t soon forget.
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