LIZZY BORDEN - Give 'Em The Axe LP (Blue Ice/Black Marbled Vinyl)

Strictly limited re-issue - mastered for vinyl
blue ice / black marbled vinyl
Limited to 300 copies worldwide!
Includes poster and download card.

Frizzy-haired Lizzy Borden (a.k.a. Lizzy Boredom to some) is one of those early characters that had some sort of reputation for being bigger than the actual band, always leading stage show flash and theatrics, and always in the forefront: King Diamond, Nasty Ronnie, Betsy Bitch – usually the singer with some part of the band’s name in his/her stage name. It was all part of shock rock, or flash metal, and LB fit right in.

The music, lead by the paired guitars of Gene Allen and Tony Matuzak, is frenetically active, talented, and played with gumption, but the focal point of Lizzy Borden is, of course, Lizzy Borden and his perpetually piercing lungs that some describe as cheesy and annoying, but remain distinguishable and powerful amongst the melted glam cheddar that was being served hot in L.A. at the time. Some say they are a result of the glam scene. Possible. Well, if glam sounded like this, the scorn it receives from most wouldn’t be as dark a shade of dishwater gray. If glam sounded like this, I would’ve not only been a glam fag, but a proud glam fag.