✦✦✦✧ This is unpredictable, at times goofy as hell, at times only metal-adjacent, and at times a shredfest. One thing it is not is background music: this album is deeply fascinating. I don’t know if that’s always a good thing, but bless this band for throwing it all up on the wall and seeing what sticks.

✦✦✦✧ This reminds me of Scatterbrain, and BTBAM, and of course goblins. There is an unsubtle goofiness here, although it’s self-aware, joyous, and purehearted in its silly purity (something I could never say of cringeworthy Steel Panther, for example). If you can embrace the obvious goofiness of the band’s conceit, you’ll be rewarded with some objectively technical melodeath.