Snacks

Seven-headed monster When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth (two singers, two guitars, two drummers and bass) create horrific, spastic noise-sludge for Young Republicans. Formed from the ashes of Awesome Cool Dudes and The Tuxedo Killers, the band crept up on the Austin scene in early 2006 like coffee in a cup, bourbon in a glass, and fine grass. Snacks opens with the band's theme song led by a no-fi boys choir then crashes into full-on stereo mayhem with '1-2-3 Pissmop.' 'Let's All Get Fades' begins with a mangled heap of strangled yelping and carefully picked single notes before a crushing guitar interlude gobbles up the mix. The epic closing track, 'Bananafana,' begins as a typical dinosaur montage: crunch, stomp, splatter, attack-- before diving head first into an endless Flipper-meets-Sabbath-on-45rpm dirge that destroys all sense of time.