Album Review: Open the Blast Doors – Mazinga

Mazinga’s Open The Blast Doors’ liner notes fold open to reveal pictures of comic books, outer space imagery, and Japanese kanji– obvious influences for a band named after an anime robot somethin’-or-other (you can catch a whiff of the influences just from titles like “Electric Eye” and “Thorium Orbiter 2008″). Beginning with the Ramones-ian bop on “Open The Blast Doors”, the five song EP offers more songs to the band’s geek-meets-buzz-saw punk catalog, but behind the shtick are some knockouts. Sometimes things get a little silly- as far as this reviewer can tell, song “5.47″ has a line that goes “I got a rock n’ roll license/ I got a list of demands [...] I got Taco Bell in my fucking hand!”. But “Blonde Zombies” mixes the ingredients well, combining ordinary rock n’ roll girl troubles with extraordinary sci-fi images over a swaggering riff.

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Mazinga: Blonde Zombies