The band name, as anachronistic as the object it represents.
There are these exaggerated things that look like you could hang the car somewhere. So exaggerated and yes, let's say it plainly, gaudy parts that one could probably create an exhibition about in twenty years.
HECKSPOILER. For some, it was and is the epitome of masculinity, but for most, it has become outdated and a symbol of a country (or a world) in a car frenzy.
Why on earth would a band name itself after such an object?
Is it masochism?
Tastelessness?
Do they want to stand out with their band name like that thing on a Porsche 911 GT3?
HECKSPOILER is a duo, which is already very interesting. How many bands, if you can call a duo that, are there that make electrically amplified music? Not many come to mind. All the more astonishing, because what comes out of the speakers does not sound like it was made by just two men. It sounds fat, thick, and big.
Just like a HECKSPOILER.
The two chaos-makers sing their anger out with energy. Lyrically, as far as understandable, it is quite pleasing. Nice and rowdy, rough and uncompromising. Sometimes it's screaming, sometimes it's pressed-out anger, but often not what one would call angelic singing. This style of singing has been popular for a few years and is presented in a similar form by LOVE A and others. However, not with such an aggressively rumbling bass and such a pounding drum.
The eleven songs really create a ruckus.
However, halfway through this ride, the first signs of wear and tear do show on HECKSPOILER. This is because the constantly aggressive and dominant rumbling bass and the pounding drums do the same thing throughout every song, namely being aggressive and pounding. Few tempo changes, few variations in the style of singing, and so after the cool drift of the first song, a bit of boredom sets in, which later turns into annoyance. Why? It simply lacks variety.
HECKSPOILER does what they can. They do it well, and it is certainly pleasing, but the album would have scored far more points on a quarter-mile than on the long course of the Nürburgring.
