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pH10 offers a nasty, noisy sound (and a marriage proposal) reminiscent of The Beastie Boys growing up on Slayer rather than Afrika Bambaataa.

Oct 21, 2008, 1:19pm Fanatic Promotion
pH10 offers a nasty, noisy sound (and a marriage proposal) reminiscent of The Beastie Boys growing up on Slayer rather than Afrika Bambaataa. "The best live Jungle in New York City, period." – Pop Smear Magazine "To understand pH10 , start by imagining The Beastie Boys growing up on Slayer rather than Afrika Bambaataa . Then, you'll need to figure out how records created with no electric guitars in site manage to be this damn heavy. Finally, a lesson or two in overdriven analog circuits at the community college is in order. - Alternatively you could just pop in one of their disks, start shaking your ass and it'll all come to [...]
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