Someone call animal control, because there is a dog on the loose. According to reports in the Ohio area, the varmint in question is a cross between a ‘devil’ and ‘salty’ dog, with long straggly hair, an unquenchable thirst for cheap beer … and possibly rabid. That’s right people, the hardest working band in hard rock is back with Poison Smile – with the same piss-poor attitude and love of all things anti-commercial.
By now we all know exactly what to expect from American Dog, and Poison Smile offers the same type of amphetamine driven hard rock that has garnered Michael Hannon and long-time cohort Steve Theado cult status among rockers who enjoy getting shit-face drunk to in -your-face heavy metal. The recipe is fairly straight-forward (and always has been), and the ass-kicking opener “Devil Dog” perfectly displays why this type of music works so well – with reckless abandon the track, along with “Lust And Greed” and “Off The Chain”, hammer home the America Dog agenda through a wall of blazing guitars and a pounding bottom end.
Is Poison Smile better than its predecessors Hard and Mean? Not really, but it’s no worse either … instead think of it as a continuation. The American Dog blueprint was written years ago, and while they have streamlined their sound over the course of their career, the message remains clear … get drunk, bang heads, or get the fuck out of the way. And like the song “Old Dog, New Tricks” states, “Nothin ‘broken, is not nothin’ to fix / can not teach an old dog new tricks” – so why change the formula now?[/spoiler]
1. Devil Dog [Explicit]
2. Just Like Charlie Sheen [Explicit]
3. Old Dog New Tricks [Explicit]
4 The Real Nitty Gritty [Explicit]
5. 2012 A.d [Explicit]
6. Poison Smile [Explicit]
7. Lust and Greed [Explicit]
8. Bathroom Romance [Explicit]
9. Splinterin Sally [Explicit]
10. Off the Chain [Explicit]
11. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog [Explicit]