Record review: Rambos - 'Rock and Roll Monsters'

By Gene Wagendorf III 

It's not often that I find myself comparing a band to a genre of comics, but such was the case last Friday night. I was telling a friend about the upcoming record release show for Rambos' debut album, Rock and Roll Monsters (Saturday, February 25th at the Empty Bottle), and was asked the obligatory question: What do they sound like? I talk about music enough to mostly loathe comparing one band to another (note: the more inebriated I get the more fun it is to play "Band X ripped off Band Y" and see how many moves it takes to get back to The Beatles) and so I decided to go another route and asked Said Friend if they'd ever read any horror comics from the '60s or '70s. The answer, of course, was no, but the comparison was appropriate never the less. Rambos draw off a couple of musical styles in creating their sound, but few things nail down what exactly their record sounds like as precisely as looking at an old issue of Vampirella.