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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Blister Rust - Who's Gonna Scratch Your Itch?!!

Name: Blister Rust
Album: Who's Gonna Scratch Your Itch?!!
Year: 1998
Style: Aggressive Rock
Similar Bands: Ugly Kid Joe, Animal Bag, Janes Addiction, Fungo Mungo, Candlebox, Green Jelly, Twisted Sister
"One-Word" Review: your dirty friend's HS band who took last place at a battle of the bands competition
Based Out Of: NYC
Label: Thundermug Records,
Cover, Liner Notes, Back
Lyrics, CD, Tray Artwork
Who's Gonna Scratch your Itch?!! (1998)
  1. V-8 4:05
  2. Age 2:38
  3. Nail Me Down 3:26
  4. Mrs. Christ 3:13
  5. Answer to You  5:41
  6. Winter 4:34
  7. Recycle Me 4:23
  8. Storyteller 5:22
  9. Cleansing 5:03
  10. NBC 3:30
Album Rating (1-10): 3.5

Members & Other Bands:
  • Steve French "Colonel Dad"- Producer
  • Terry Toajin - Percussive Noise, Backing Vox
  • Otto Spumo - Guitar Noodling, Backing Vox
  • Rx Rasputin - Vox
  • Dug Spoon - Bass Cement, Backing Vox
  • Peter Moshay - Mixing, Engineering
  • John Hopkins - Engineering
  • N.S. "Buck' Brundage - Guitar Amp Consultant / Tech
  • Mark Wilder - Mastering
  • Andriana Meyer - Cover
Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. From the tagged corpse imagery, the font of the logo and the tracks, i'm going to guess this is a border band between Nu Metal and Pop-Punk...I'm thinking like Sum 41or a less accessible Goldfinger. 1998 fits that style guess, too.

Album Review: The record starts out aggressive, angry but not as dense as expected. Sounding like a bad and very off key Ugly Kid Joe. They try the Sam Kinison yelling vocals, but coupled with the verse vocals, it doesn't sound good. Music wise, they use driving short guitar licks, and a few metal guitar solo sections, but overall, it sounds like your dirty friend's band, who's totally gonna make it.

Blister Rust is not just some "cool" sounding word salad. It is a disease originating in Asia that affects plants, specifically White Pines. They band, however, does not have much info on them out there. They had one album before this one, and planned to release a third in 2000, but that never seemed to materialize.

Stand Out Track: Mrs. Christ

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