Before the Rift
Check the Dipstick
198917 tracks1 hr 10 minMetalcore
Action-movie machismo. Every song ends in an explosion.
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Liner notes
Before the rift, before the horned helmets, before the devil learned their names, there was a dipstick, and it was low.
Check the Dipstick is the sound of five men in Bay 3 who have watched too many action movies and decided to become one. Cocaine jetski pursuits. Knife fights in hot tubs. A helicopter, suplexed. Every song ends with the band walking away from an explosion in slow motion, and none of them ever looks back, mostly because Rusty’s eleven pairs of aviators make looking back a safety hazard.
“We hath checked the dipstick, and lo, it was low. So we filled it with our rage.” — Lance Velour
Credits
- Lead guitar
- Dirk "Lugnut" Hammerstrom, performed with one hand, holding a warm beer in the other
- Rhythm guitar
- Rusty "Torque" Kowalczyk, through all eleven pairs of aviators
- Keys / synth
- Lance Velour, on a keytar shaped like a '69 Charger, still making payments on it
- Drums
- Sal "Meat Wagon" Bronco, on a kit bolted to the bed of a borrowed butcher's truck
- Bass
- Buck Fontaine, tuned by ear, which was ringing at the time
- Vocals
- None. The engine handles the high notes.
- Recorded at
- Bay 3, Dutch's Muffler & Brake (engine running)