{"id":15027,"date":"2015-07-15T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15027"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:02","slug":"album-review-muckraker-karmageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15027","title":{"rendered":"Album Review &#8211; Muckraker &#8211; Karmageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/f1.bcbits.com\/img\/a0580601364_16.jpg\" alt=\"Karmageddon cover art\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" \/>Muckraker &#8211; Karmageddon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date<\/strong>: June 16, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: Independent<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m probably going to get a lot of shit for this but here it goes. Atlanta has some of my least favorite bands on the planet. I don&#8217;t know what it is about this city that just hasn&#8217;t managed to churn out more than 3 or 4 bands tops that I can say that I really enjoy. This town is giant cauldron of death metal core sludge that has done very little for me. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where anytime an Atlanta based band reaches out to me to give their stuff a listen I find myself taking a deep breath and preparing myself for the worst. That is exactly what I did when I was about to give the band Muckraker a listen.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, when I first started listening to Muckraker&#8217;s 2014 release Karmageddon I really didn&#8217;t know what to expect. As the first song, &#8220;Karmageddon&#8221; kicked in my first thought was, &#8220;Holy shit. This sounds like a lost GWAR song.&#8221; Song after song I found myself nodding my head, smiling, and at times laughing as songs like, &#8220;All Hail Mary&#8221;, &#8220;Warlord!&#8221; and &#8220;Red Vulture&#8221; blasted from my speakers. Are these songs purposely funny? I hope so because I found a lot of them downright hilarious but in the same way that GWARs songs are hilarious. Muckraker&#8217;s humor in their songwriting is very much clever as opposed to just downright stupid.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2345025896\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=963386278\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker1.bandcamp.com\/album\/karmageddon-2\">Karmageddon by MuckRaker<\/a><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure these guys will grow tired of me saying this but, again, what I loved about this album so much was that it sounded like a lost GWAR album to me. Muckraker has managed to put together an entertainingly fun collection of metal songs and the deeper I got into this album the more I found myself really enjoying it. In a town where so many bands seem to be taking themselves so seriously (and not impressing me), it&#8217;s a much welcomed change to hear a band like Muckraker having some fun and doing it really well with talent to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muckraker &#8211; Karmageddon Release Date: June 16, 2014 Label: Independent I know I&#8217;m probably going to get a lot of shit for this but here it goes. Atlanta has some of my least favorite bands on the planet. I don&#8217;t know what it is about this city that just hasn&#8217;t managed to churn out more than 3 or 4 bands tops that I can say that I really enjoy. This town is giant cauldron of death metal core sludge that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1394],"class_list":["post-15027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-muckraker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19719,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions\/19719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}