If you tuned into our website in the past couple of months, you may have stumbled across a few live tracks from SKULLBUCKET. You may have also suffered a neck injury from headbanging along to their particular brand of beer-soaked party thrash with touches of doom and stoner metal. SKULLBUCKET puts on a fun-ass show that will put a smile on any metalheads face who loves to have a good time. In addition to a split with OhnOBRds, they have teamed up with Battle Shack Records to produce a full length album that will be slam packed with more of that sweet, sweet, swampy thrash. Grooves this good can turn any pocket-protector-wearing bean-counter into a PBR-chuggin’, mohawk-rockin’ psycho.

What a freaking liar. Well, there's a good chance you don't know Von Holmes, or even if you do, you have no idea what I'm talking about.  Von Holmes (Billie Vacation, De-Evolutionaries, Death Wolves, etc) has been recording tracks left and right, not to tour, not to advertise, just because he damn well could. What we consider the normal way to hear music (following an online link) doesn't work for this new album, or many of his songs. If you didn't bump into him while he had a CD, or hunt him down to get tracks, you're out of luck.

So why even bother writing a review of a CD you probably won't hear?  Because it's a catalog of some of the best damn music from this area. Von is one hell of a song writer, and puts all us more extroverted artists to shame. He seems content to record it, throw it out, then walk away.  Sowing a seed of musical genius, then not even staying around to see if the crops yield.  Maybe he already knows it will.  With tracks such as "Road", "Woods", and "Bag of Bones", there’s a lot of hinting about leaving.  If that’s true, there's going to be a big gaping hole left here when he's gone.  Okay, maybe that was a fat joke, but I don't care, I think he'd laugh at it.

Some links to the small online presence that Von Holmes has:
Wordpress | Billie Vacation | De-Evolutionaries