A WILHELM SCREAM

NUNO PEREIRA / VOCALS; TREVOR REILLY / GUITAR, VOCALS; MR MIKE/ GUITAR; NICK ANGELINI / DRUMS; BRIAN ROBINSON / BASS, VOCALS

"We wouldn't attempt another record if we didn't think it could blow the last one away," says guitarist and singer Trevor Reilly. Easier said than done. In 2004 A Wilhelm Scream dropped an invigorating album, Mute Print, to an unsuspecting world. Word among fans and their peers spread steadily and the album became one of the "must-hears" of the year. On the road non-stop since its release, playing with the likes of Rise Against, Strung Out, and The Lawrence Arms, A Wilhelm Scream have converted audiences with a live show that matches the energy and complexity of the album.

Touring for a young band is crucial, but it makes writing new material a bit problematic. Instead of the relaxed, familiar surroundings of a basement or practice space, the band worked out new songs from the road: the germ of a song started in Denver and finished in Florida. Riffs were laid down on a mini-tape recorder. Hard-fought inspiration broke through the monotony of driving down the interstate in the middle of nowhere, trapped in a van with four other seldom-showered guys.

The end result is Ruiner: fourteen unorthodox arrangements of punk, metal, and melody going far beyond a rehashing of their previous record. It's a chaotic, yet skilled amalgamation of harmonized guitar riffs, literary lyrics delivered with the gruff urgency of singer Nuno Pereira, backed with melodic vocals and thundering rhythms. How it all holds together is the secret ingredient of A Wilhelm Scream.

After a relentless touring schedule that found New Bedford, Massachusetts' A Wilhelm Scream in far reaches of the developed world with bands like Rise Against, Strung Out, and Lagwagon, the band that Alternative Press hailed as the new heirs of the skate-punk scene, finally settled down in their second home: Blasting Room studios.

Career Suicide represents the third trip to the Bill Stevenson / Jason Livermore well, a well neither dry nor stale. Career Suicide is just as smart, just as anthemic as Mute Print and Ruiner , but this time around A Wilhelm Scream speeds up their formula to a neck-breaking pace. And with a new bass-player, Brian Robinson, who keeps up with, and even pushes, the maniacal guitar duo of Reilly-Levesque, Career Suicide thoroughly pummels. That¢s saying something about a band that¢s never pulled punches.


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