17 July, 2011

Frankenbok: Dine In Hell – new video

 

‘Dine In Hell’ is apparently Melbourne, Australia's FRANKENBOK new single, now accompanied by video, due to appear on the band's upcoming full-length, expected to be released in August 2011, through, I suppose, Australian label Prime Cuts, with a “mega” DVD soon to follow.

“It’s definitely the most intense record that FRANKENBOK’s done," explained vocalist Dan McDougall in an interview, “it’s definitely a thrash metal album. We’ve got a couple of sorta slower songs, but they’re still pretty heavy. It’s gonna surprise a lot of people, primarily with the lyrical content, and what we’ve decided to discuss on this album. With the previous singers, it was hard to know what they were really on about; this one’s a little bit more direct.”

“These blokes have been around since 1997 and they still won’t go away!” the group's label lovingly announces. FRANKENBOK (reportedly a mispronunciation of Australian slang phrase “fair dinkum”) was formed by guitarist Aaron Butler and vocalist Adam “Hutch” Glynn, who were later joined by bassist Tim Miedecke and guitarist Scott Lang. FRANKENBOK's unique mix of grind, death & thrash, topped by Mike Patton-inspired vocals diversified with death growls, attracted the attention of producer and engineer Richie Norton who offered to record and release the band's debut full-length, 2000's ‘Greetings & Salutations’ via his own Faultline Records (re-released in 2002 through Dark Carnival with an additional eight bonus tracks). The album's sound, recorded with a drum machine, was shrewdly described by FRANKENBOK as “taco metal or a lot of meat with a little bit of cheese”. The band went on tour in support of the record, joined by real-life drummer Mick Morley. 2001's EP ‘The Loopholes & Great Excuses’ (Dark Carnival Records) “proved a minor hit” for the group, sending them on more touring with the likes of DREADNAUGHT and landing them opening slots for the likes of SLAYER and MACHINE HEAD. Vocalist Adam Glynn would leave the band in 2002 and FRANKENBOK filled the vacancy with frontman Adam B. Metal (Adam Miles) in 2003. Second studio album, and first for Roadrunner Australia, entitled ‘Blood Oath’ was released in Australia that same year and would eventually gain a European release in 2004. Relentless touring that ensued would cost the band their longtime guitarist Scott Lang in late 2005. With Adam B. Metal taking upon himself the string-duties as well, FRANKENBOK released their third full-length, 2007's ‘Murder Of Songs’ (“ten tracks of speed, thrash & bent-out-of-shape melancholy metal with little foot notes from hell about lies, persecution and what it’s really like being Down to the Wire or to Worship before the Dead”) via Prime Cuts Records. But, as these things tend to happen, vocalist and guitarist Adam B. Metal, would split even before the album's release, and new vocalist, Dan McDougall, would become his replacement. Guitarist Nathan “Yeti” Amaknieks eventually joined the band. An EP entitled ‘The Last Ditch Redemption’, featuring track-titles as ‘The Walls Closed In, And The Voices In My Head Were Telling Me I’m Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.’, was released in 2008 via Prime Cuts.

Let me just finish off by quoting FRANKENBOK in their prime: “Before (insert pre-fab bogey men here… Osama Bin Laden, Jason Voorhees, Tiger Woods) there was Colonel Gaddafi. For someone feared, loathed and vilified in the 80's, he has come across in the 21st century as a wise forward thinker. As compared to who and what? Well, to us in this country and our western friends that’s for sure. Gaddafi did a recent press tour with his all female entourage of body guards – a display of one man's belief in equal rights. The fact that they were trained killers may make them more equal than others… . Hence the new BOK song, ‘Women's Libya’ [heh].”

FRANKENBOK features: Aaron Butler - guitars, Tim Miedecke - bass and backing vocals, Mick Morley - drums, Dan McDougall – vocals, Nathan “Yeti” Amaknieks – guitar. 

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