★★★★★
If you followed Direct Hit! before Brainless God, or even before Domesplitter was released you would have known that they put out some splits with bands like Mixtapes, Tit Patrol, The Jetty Boys and more. There was a solid year and a half to two years where that was all they released until Brainless God came out...
- www.punknews.org
2014-07-30
★★★★★
Domesplitter is a collection of songs that Direct Hit! chose from their very first EP's (#1 through #5) rerecorded and put onto one full length. This album is one of those fun-spirited pop-punk albums that can get anyone is a good mood. But Direct Hit! isn't on of those pop-punk bands that rely solely on three or four power chords. They put a lot of work in to vocal arrangements and guitar riffs that really make them stand out from other bands...
- www.punknews.org
2014-03-14
★★★★★
[Renaldo Matadeen is a staff reviewer for Punknews.org. Classic.]
Hope 2013 treated y'all right.
Loved this year in terms of music ? one of my favorite years. It was also one of the toughest for me in between a ton of job changes, the hustle of freelancing and of course, keeping up my classic standards for eazyD (I love ya to death, ya buzzy bastard)...
- www.punknews.org
2013-12-27
★★★★★
Setting aside the many ways to foul up a garden variety LP, there are two basic ways to royally make a mess of a concept album. For a start, you've got to have some brass balls/ovaries to attempt a musical form which, in the popular consciousness at least, still carries the stink of '70s excess. You've got to be confident to the point of arrogance, or brave bordering on foolhardy...
- www.punknews.org
2013-09-10
★★★★★
Concept albums are usually either the territory of prog-metal bands or some dude having a mid-career crisis. So when it was announced that Milwaukee pop-punkers Direct Hit! were serving up a concept album for their Red Scare debut, the details which seem to involve religion, serial killers, the apocalypse and who knows what else, it was a bit on an eyebrow-raising moment. Luckily, these guys have delivered on Brainless God. Not straying far from their snotty pop-punk roots, Direct Hit...
- altpress.com
2013-08-31
★★★★★
Concept albums are usually either the territory of prog-metal bands or some dude having a mid-career crisis. So when it was announced that Milwaukee pop-punkers Direct Hit! were serving up a concept album for their Red Scare debut, the details which seem to involve religion, serial killers, the apocalypse and who knows what else, it was a bit on an eyebrow-raising moment. Luckily, these guys have delivered on Brainless God. Not straying far from their snotty pop-punk roots, Direct Hit...
- www.altpress.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Show Date: July 15, 2013
Let me give you some context first.
I remember listening to the Punknews Podcast and a discussions the panelists were having on the show concerned bands they discovered early on in their run and followed as they became more and more successful. After listening to that podcast, I realized I didn't share that kind of experience. In fact, I was even more envious of the people who had that experience with Against Me...
- www.punknews.org
2013-08-07
★★★★★
What do you get if you take a little of Andrew WK's raw vocals, mix with the Ramones' punk rock guitars and finish off with a bit of the Offspring's catchiness? That's right folks, Direct Hit! The four-piece from Milwaukee have created a punk rock album which ranges from a major assault on the ears with 'Snickers Or Reece's (Pick Up The Pieces)' to a calmer sing-a-long track in 'Living Dead'...
- www.alterthepress.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
The Mid-West of America has a great punk tradition, there must be something in the water in that part of the world because over the decades some of my favourite (and therefore best) punk bands have come out of that area. Mixtapes then, have a lot to live up to given they're from Cincinnati, and while their split with Milwaukee's Direct Hit! doesn't immediately suggest they will scale the heights of some of their geographical peers, there's promise here from both bands...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
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