I like this record. A lot. Rikets new CD All American Death Cult is a very strong release. There is not one clunker song in the whole package and there are several “Fuck Yeah!” moments that will happen to you while listening to this album. I can see why Burnhill Union Records signed them. All American Death Cult is everything I loved about Anything for the Devil but on steroids and after a bunch of Jiu Jitsu classes. You can tell that Rikets as a band have become so much stronger in every department since the last CD and this disk has powerhouse written all over it because of it.

So what does it sound like? Well Rikets has actually pulled off having a good amount of variety between the songs but you can hear some of the best of Static-X, old school Powerman 5000, some Marilyn Manson, and a fair amount good ol’ industrial metal brutality mixed into the AADC pie. There’s lots and lots of cool guitar rifs, hooks, beats, breakdowns, and vocalist Scott Rose punishing his vocal chords into several different territories and pulling it off with confidence.

My personal faves are the heavy industrial groove song Sold Me Out, the techno beat rocker Designer Drug Hell, and the cover of Cry Little Sister from The Lost Boys. But I’m always a sucker for that song. Hey, I’m human after all.

All American Death Cult drops on 4.20.2010.

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