Review Summary: Just a group of somewhat familiar faces making some pretty bizarre noises
Holy Molar is one of the most boisterous underground noise rock acts of the 21st century. The members consist of people who played with other more notable acts such as The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, Some Girls, and many others. They came together in 2001 with twisted, experimental thoughts on their minds, and in 2007, created one of, if not the single most peculiar production known as: dub-grind. It's a formula that is very delicate, and for the most part it doesn't hold up so well. But in a few areas here it works, and it is one of the strangest feelings of excitement to express towards a short little EP like this. Some parts of this EP take it all to the extreme, while some fall behind, and the end result is a rather unstable collection of material that sounds, and they do it all with a dentist persona. Yes, you heard it here first; the members dress up in dentist uniforms for recordings and live shows. Not exactly what I would've chosen as an image to sell, but hey whatever floats their boat I suppose.
Even the word "Unstable" doesn't do this album justice. It's incredibly hard to explain just how far this band takes experimentation, so if you could just imagine the child of Botch and Skrillex, that's essentially the sound you're met with in the very first track "Cavity Search". This track alone compacts more experimental noise, and surprises around the corner than you'd think it possible to fit in a 1 minute and 45 second track, but the band does it, and it's probably the only song that really works for the whole way through. It's too bad I can't say the same thing for the next track, which only has this bizarre formula working for maybe half the track, and after that it's all on-and-off.
The album ends almost just as strange as it began, with the final track "Der Werewolf Breath", which really is just as weird sounding as the name would suggest. Between the screaming vocalist, and Bobby Bray (The Locust), a huge torrent of robotic-esque bleep bloops, and lyrics of seemingly meaningless gibberish and obscenities about beaches on Hawaii (as just an example). These crazy people are pretty much littering the EP with scrapings from the very bottom of the barrel of experimentation to produce a sound unlike anything you've ever heard.
Like I said before, it is indeed a strange formula, but somehow the band manages to make it work in a few areas. Unfortunately the success is not so plentiful here that it meets my expectations, but for true fans of noise rock, Genghis Tron-like composure, experimentation, and just plain insanity, this could be just what you're looking for.
