ATTACK

"Birthed by former members of Slint, Tortoise, and the Shipping News, Dead Child was to be an outlet for the members' more visceral tendencies. A middling EP was released in early 2007, but with Dead Child's full-length, Brad Wood-produced album, it's made clear that the project is far from being a gag. From musicians so long engaged in experimentation and stylistic reconfigurations, the catholic incuriosity of Attack comes as something of a surprise. The utter familiarity of its elements instantly pegs Attack as a genre homage; Overkill (vocalist Dahm's tight-throated melodicism) and Metallica (the pummeling grandiosity of longer cuts like "The Coldest Hands") are obvious influences." http://notablenoise.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/dead-child-attack-cd-revi- ew-harp/