The overwhelming success of the revamped, Jared & Coady-aided Melvins has been a mixed blessing for Big Business; as their duties with King Buzzo’s crew have increased, so too have their profiles, yet, it’s greatly detracted from their actual output as a band. It’s been more than two years since they dropped Here Comes the Waterworks on a largely unsuspecting public that proceeded to flip their collective wig for its brutalizing bottom-end power and bludgeoning lyrical cunning. A couple of tour-only EPs have attempted to sate the salivating monkeys demanding new Big Biz, but to little or no avail, as it only served to further whet their appetites for the next main course. One that’s been far too slow in the coming. Now, finally, after countless months of speculation and blog/Twitter/MySpace rumor, their latest full-length is ready for mass consumption.
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You may not know Red Fang by name, but if you’ve been near the internets recently, you’ve probably seen the video for their debut single “Prehistoric Dog”. It’s ‘gone viral’ as the kids say, and rightfully so: it’s easily one of the best videos of the last five years. Incorporating host of visual delights, including excessive beer consumption, live action role playing, creative recycling and Monty Python-esque gore, you owe it to yourself to seek it out immediately. In fact, the video is so good that you might be distracted from the fact that Red Fang are much more than an awesome video. That would be doing the four Portland natives a great disservice, as a trip through the self-titled Red Fang debut will assert quite definitively that they are nothing less than a full-on four-piece Metal onslaught.
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ATP have confirmed shoegaze forebearers (and seemingly ATP poster children as of late) My Bloody Valentine will be the curators of this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas.  
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