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By GREG MAKI
Wednesday 13’s Fang Bang is full of blood, murder, body parts and cadavers. And it’s one of the most flat-out fun albums of 2006. The sense of humor in song titles like “Morgue than Words,” “My Home Sweet Homicide,” “Happily Ever Cadaver,” “Til Death Do Us Party” and “Buried with Children” carries over to the entire disc. It appears Wednesday has never met a pun he didn’t want at his party.
Sounding like a supremely pissed-off Alice Cooper, the former Murderdolls frontman delivers his catchy, campy hooks in songs equally influenced by punk, ’80s metal and late-night horror movies. He’s at his most Alice-esque on the closing number, a bluesy cover of Roky Erickson’s “Burn the Flames,” and at his most metal on “Too Much Blood,” his version of a drinking song. As a whole, the album is more upbeat than Wednesday’s solo debut, 2005’s Transylvania 90210, on which it seemed as if he was going out of his way at times to distance himself somewhat from his past with Murderdolls and Frankenstein Drag Queens. That strategy worked, but his more natural approach to Fang Bang is even more successful. Halloween or not, it’s the perfect soundtrack to your next party.
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