Bomb

• Genre: Acid Rock
• Hometown: San Francisco
• Bomb Website

About

Bomb are an enigma. Over the course of a career spanning more than a decade, they have adamantly refused to conform to the generic conventions of Heavy Metal, Grunge, or Glam (though they draw from each of these forms). They seem less concerned with playing a given style of music than implementing whatever style will most heighten the effect of their bizarre, subversive lyrics. Every Bomb song is such an impeccably strange, deformed creation that one is tempted to ascribe their power less to creativity than psychosis (e.g. "Vagrant Vampires"). Like Marie Curie in her lab, they are driven by a will to discover, even if they are destroyed in the process: one moment they venture a Leonard Cohen cover; the next, they plummet into an 18+ minute acid-metal mantra ("If I Were a Gurl"). No one has attempted such radical juxtapositions in their music since Focus first brought together Progressive Metal and yodeling.

- Chad Driscoll