Review of Devil's Sweet Revenge from Rift Magazine in Minneapolis
July 1st, 2008

"Pass the bottle of whiskey to the glee-filled devil and prepare for a deep-rooted, north country, good-time country album to rile-up any fan of hard-pounding Minnesotan raised, booze slamming music with the White Iron Band’s newest album the “Devil’s Sweet Revenge.” The thick blues-tones, outlaw-mindset and whiskey slaughtering attitude makes the White Iron Band step-up onto a new plateau of musical jamboree with this non-stop mix of internal lyrical confrontation tossed together with blissful battle with Beelzebub himself.

What started as a band that used Sesame Street as a bluesy background on their first album, has now evolved into a solid and vicious yet jubilant authoritarian group of Iron Range bandits making cuts through mini jam-sessions intertwined throughout the potent taste of “Devil’s Sweet Revenge.” One line from the album wraps up the ever-so unflawed 13-track mental state, by saying, “I’m whiskey drunk and bullet proof, I don’t need you anymore, and if you don’t like what I am saying, go and throw me out the door,” front-man Matt Pudas bellows within the track, “Whiskey Drunk and Bullet Proof.” Each track has a different liquor after-taste, ranging from the sour mash of “Dead and Gone” to the sinful burn of a 100-proof Sailor Jerry life with-in “Devil’s Gonna Win.” The White Iron Band uses the forces of the dark-side to make a boot-stomping, Harley-ridin’, album of pure musical dominance. This mixture of men from Ely, Minn. have outdone themselves with the “Devil’s Sweet Revenge,” which is the embodiment of Minnesota’s back-roads, bad boys and a shot-gun blast of sodden bliss to the soul of Minnesota’s country/bluegrass scene."

- Kaleb Bronson, Rift Magazine

 

The White Iron Band has been traveling the north for a good while and has the opportunity to share shows with such acts as Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Particle, The Big Wu, Arrested Development, Willie Waldman, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Buckethead, Les Claypool, the Black Crows, Shooter Jennings, and Widespread Panic. They have also opened for Country legends like Sherwin Linton, Stonewall Jackson, Tommy Cash, and Marvin Rainwater. The White Iron Band has been bringing good music to good people all over the North and has become a staple in the Minnesota music scene

 

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