Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo (CD - 2007)

Recording information: Anthem Productions, Nashville, TN; Simeon Music, Nashville, TN.

For a band so frivolously named, these guys sure take their grindcore seriously. A blistering, paint-peeling Molotov cocktail of an album, DANZA II roars with maximum intensity almost from start to finish. In fact, aside from a couple of amusing good-old-boy audio bits, II is a wall of machine-gun drumming, galvanized sheet metal guitars, and blood red vocals. With knotty song titles like "I Don't Mean to Impose But I Am the Ocean" and "Crunchy Black Did Me In At Midnight Madness," they're flexing a sly intelligence and sense of humor, but tech-metal played with this much intensity remains a fearsome thing. minimize