With all the gritty, unpretentious aggression and anxiety of youth this duo lives up to their name in theory. You’d be hard-pressed to find throbbing bass drums on their debut LP, GB City; its snarling guitar with impassioned yowling drive this rock-and-roll cacophony. As though conceived in an idling car on a Deep South back road and raised on The Ramones, Bass Drums of Death is the grunge love child of dirty blues and garage. — CA