Dogs For Breakfast – Rose Lane Was Tucker’s Girlfriend EP

An Italian trio of abrasive, hardcore thrashers, Dogs For Breakfast are a raucous force, and Rose Lane Was Tucker’s Girlfriend – a conceptual EP which tells a story of frustration and desolation – is a fistful of intense aural battery. If you’re looking for a guttural dollop of testosterone – aided by the screaming sax of Luca T. Mai on The Beginning and Three Steps To Salvation, yes I said sax – then roll up, roll up.

Mai’s playing is unconventional and used primarily in a screeching capacity that means one could easily mistake it for another layer of ear piercing feedback. There are five ‘chapters’ to Rose Lane…, each making for an aggressive, disjointed and unsettling listen – intertwining to effectively result in an epic but exhaustive completion. [Alan Souter]