★★★★★
Black Pistol Fire brandishes a fighter's spirit on
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-04-24
★★★★★
It's about time someone put the metal back in rockabilly, and what better place to make the installation but Austin, Texas. In this brave new century of stylistic mashups, I'm surprised I haven't run into Swedish Death Concertos, so I'll blather about this smokin' hot project.We roar into the opener "Beelzebub." It's all gospel and slap bass and heavy metal devil horns, rolled up into a Big Burrito of Burning Bass. Jesus has beat feet for Oklahoma, and it's not water he's gonna be walking on...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Black Pistol Fire might be the greatest Black Keys tribute band ever. The weird thing is, they don't seem to realize they're a Black Keys tribute band, even though everything about them screams The Big Come Up and Rubber Factory and Magic Potion. Everything, that is, except the voice of lead singer Kevin McKeown, who sadly lacks the timless, tortured, old-black-guy-trapped-in-a-young-white-guy's-body quality of The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. The similarities are more than just cosmetic...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-02-20