Toby Marsh(vox,guitar)
Mike Dempsey(drums)
Chris Dempsey(bass)
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yes - we hope to be.
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New Record!!!OUT NOW!!!
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A740042
The Open Casket
Worst Case Scenario (Mortville Records)
In these troubled times, any band capable of waxing a cohesive 12-pack of slobber punk broadsides in just six hours warrants further investigation. Enter the Open Casket, a thrift-driven local trio led by onetime Motard Toby Marsh alongside brothers Chris and Mike Dempsey on bass and drums, respectively. Harnessing the hammer-down swagger of the Dead Boys crossed with a goofball sci-fi/horror aesthetic, Worst Case Scenario skips the groundbreaking in favor of unadulterated exploitation. Opener "Bend Over" finds Marsh seizing the spotlight by bellowing the teenage riot act to a laundry list of haters. "Black & White Fuzz" detours into radioactive William Castle territory before ending prematurely on a genre-bucking fade out. Somewhere between the two-part "Cellar Walls" and "Torture Chamber," the Casket even manages a garage-minted nod to domesticity on "Happy Anniversary." When the world is running down, fry up a meatless skillet of Hamburger Helper and crank this until the neighbors blink.
BY GREG BEETS
The Open Casket are X and current members of ,Motards,Secret Lovers,Ritchie Whites,Candi and the Cavities,Flash Boys,
The Put-Downs,SmallTown Massacre,Capital Scam,Lost City Souls..
MOrtville Records
3307 Norwood Hills Rd
Austin, TX 78723
THE MENTORS HIT HUMBLE ON THEIR WAY BACK HOME DEC. 5TH W/ AUSTIN PUNK LEGENDS THE CHUMPS (THEIR FIRST HOUSTON SHOW SINCE '99!) - OPEN CASKET & SHIT CITY HIGH!
A NIGHT OF SLEAZE PUNK ROCK 'N' ROLL METAL!! BRING AN EXTRA PAIR OF PANTIES FOR THIS SHOW!!
Ha, you're guys default pic makes me laugh, its a piece of work :)~ looving the great jams! Keep going till the the going gets good! Thanks for the add btw!