BULLET TREATMENT
"What More Do You Want?"
cd
(br-025)

Trying to descibe BULLET TREATMENT to someone who has never heard of them or know what they are about is just impossible. There's has never been a band like this before. Purposely changing band line-ups just to do things different, this the 5th version of the band and is as intense as it gets. With what took literally only a few days to write & record, here are ten of the fastest, loudest, craziest punk tunes to be heard in quite sometime. With what is probably the most explosive unit, some of the band members might just come clean. Leader of the pack and sometime drummer, bassist and in this case guitarist D.C. has thrown together 9 tunes that might bare comparisons to such great hardcore legends as MINOR THREAT, BAD BRAINS, 7 SECONDS, and the CIRCLE JERKS (the 8th tune is an incrediblebly raw cover of the CIRCLE JERKS' "What's Your Problem ?"). While putting the finishing touches on THE BRONX first full length, vocalist/screamer Matt had limited time to come in and do vocals, as a result the intensity is at an all time high with just about every song done in it's first take. While bassist JoJo and drummer Dan E. are at times border lining on completely losing control they manage to just keep things at bay long enough to get through the songs. Sure the whole idea of a "band" that's not really a "band" may seem a bit retarded but who said there were any rules in punk rock !!!! Skratch Magazine has called Bullet Treatment "California's best kept secret", Americore Magazine has suggested that "Bullet Treatment is the greatest band to never exist". This CD is a must for anyone who has a heart for this music called PUNK!"

REVIEW:
"I assume that in a few years time the LA's Bullet Treatment biography will be released as a new encyclopedia. If you like riddles and such, I suggest you could read about their history right here, but you'd better take an aspirin before you do. So with singer #6, the drummer that became a guitarist and whatnot, they finally managed to record this 10 song EP for Basement Records, the label that releases these "Radio Disaster"-comps with a remarkable frequency. Like so many other bands Bullet Treatment started out playing cover songs from classic bands such as Minor Threat, Angry Samoans, Descendents, Suicidal Tendencies, T.S.O.L., 7 Seconds, Bad Brains, Adolescents, etc and you might have heard them on some comps with covers of Bad Religion, Ramones or The Misfits. "What More Do You Want" also includes a classic cover song with Circle Jerk's "What's Your Problem", which they do great BTW adding a very raw touch to it. All the other original songs on this CD bare this same classic punk touch with incredible speed-drumming, fierce and churning guitars and raw-shouting yet clear vocals that altogether reminded me of long-time classic acts like M.D.C. or 7 Seconds and the likes. I'm deliberately not using the term "hardcore" to define this music, although I'm sure a lot of you will label it as such, but there's too much a degree of melody in these attacking songs to use it. Not in a new school melodic sense, but these guitars all have these great loops and simple chords which I rarely see any band play at this speed anymore. I'm aware that there's no artistic standout stuff in what this band is doing technically, but the energy, the boost of power and speed dripping from these songs, along with my nostalgic feelings that come with listening to this 1-2 minute songs, makes it a great EP for this 35-year old sucker. You'll have to be open for some heavy shit when you buy it, but if you like your bands fast and furious without a degree of metal or growling voices, I'm sure you'll love it as much as I do. This sound is the soil that bands like Good Riddance and their adepts are still weeding from. I will always like bands that manage to reproduce this sound in the way Bullet Treatment does it, no matter how generic it might be to some."
- Punknews.org