{"id":989,"date":"2022-02-06T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdmetal.org\/msm\/?p=989"},"modified":"2022-12-31T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:42:53","slug":"tymo-the-art-of-a-maniac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdmetal.org\/msm\/tymo-the-art-of-a-maniac\/","title":{"rendered":"Tymo “The Art of a Maniac” Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tymo is a rather unknown oddly named Western Canadian Thrash Metal band that has been around off and on since `14. With several releases under their bullet belt, their newest album hit the streets yesterday. With an odd \u201cAliens meets zombie Bob Ross\u201d art fetish, well, let\u2019s see what these Canucks are all aboot, eh?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s the old yarn about \u201cDon\u2019t judge a book by its cover<\/em>\u201d. But hey, I\u2019m sorry…, when it comes to music, I\u2019m a\u2019lookin\u2019 and I\u2019m a\u2019judgin\u2019. And I have to say it: I fucking hate the album artwork. I can\u2019t tell if the Bob Ross-ish dude is supposed to Bob Ross, a zombied version of Bob Ross, or a yuk-yuk amalgam of Bob Ross and the ungainly looking namesake of the band (Tim Tymo, on guitars, vocals, and all lyrics). So I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s one strike against ya Tymo<\/a><\/strong>, (pronounced tie-mo) from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strike two? Apparently Tymo<\/a><\/strong> is also the name of a much lauded heated brush used for straightening hair. In this digital age, when your band name or dedicated website doesn\u2019t even show up on the first page of Google results — when your band branding is competing online with mainstream beauty products — it\u2019s a bad band name. It\u2019s no wonder there\u2019s not a single review for this band on Metal Archives<\/a> et al<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So to recap, this is a Canadian Thrash Metal band with a bad name and worse artwork. Is their newest release<\/a> even worth investigating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well yes. Very much so, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tymo<\/strong> does know how to write solid Thrash \u2013 often without resorting to dead horse beating staples that have been stale as fuck in the Thrash Metal world since at least Y2K. I hear this and don\u2019t visualize a kid with bad hygiene and worse grades sporting a flipped up ball cap with \u201cMOSH!!<\/em>\u201d crudely MagicMarker\u2019ed on the inside brim. I hear this and I don\u2019t think, \u201cWell, you know, `Among The Living\u2019 sure hasn\u2019t aged well\u2026<\/em>\u201d. And so on, and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather, I\u2019m hearing what could be roughly described as a mixing of the riffs of Municipal Waste<\/strong> and Tankard<\/strong>, the thrashier backline of Suicidal Tendencies<\/strong>, the lyrical nods to Acid Reign<\/strong> and Exodus<\/strong>, and Al Jourgensen<\/strong>-style vocals. There\u2019s nothing really new and fresh here \u2013 but at the same time at least it doesn\u2019t feel stale and time-warped from 1988. Well okay then, tell me more.<\/p>\n\n\n