King Parrot: Bite Your Head Off Review: Point Taken, Again

Meet King Parrot. They’re Australian, they play grindcore and they have an album out called “Bite Your Head Off.”

This is all you need to know to assume “Bite Your Head Off” is an instant classic.

Every track from “Bozo” to “Cold Steel Probe” is gold, spewing sweet gore and violence from every blast beat, riff and shriek. Even the album’s comical, yet creepy outro “Sandy” is a hoot.

Drawing influences from “Lock Up” and “Insect Warfare,” there is nothing entirely new about what King Parrot is doing, but the fact remains that they are doing it well. Piss and vinegar laced ear-gougers off this record include “Bozo,” “No Coincidence,” ”Lizard,” and “Blaze in the Northern Suburbs.”

While this album went under the radar in 2012, Candlelight Records has re-released “Bite Your Head Off” for 2014 with a re-mastered version of King Parrot’s 2011 EP “The Stench of Hardcore Pub Trash”-which only sweetens the pot.

The EP tracks sound so much fuller and more gruesome, making a great grind album even better. “Epileptic Butcher” and The Four Lads inspired “Psychotherapy and Valium” completely take the cake.

What King Parrot and Candlelight have done is turn water into wine with the re-release of “Bite Your Head Off.” It fulfills every extreme metal fans primal urges and gives them more bang for their buck.

The sleeping giant of 2012 is awake and vengeful in 2014.

Don’t make King Parrot angry- they’ll bite your head off.