Bazooka Proof

Dogbite (www.bazookaproof.com)

By Jason Bracelin on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 4:00 am

Bazooka Proof, Saturday, June 25, at Peabody's.

[
      {

        
        "name": "Ad - NativeInline - Injected",
        "component": "38482495",
        "insertPoint": "3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "5"
      },{


        "name": "Real 1 Player (r2) - Inline",
        "component": "38482494",
        "insertPoint": "2/3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "9"
      }
    ]

"I need to knock me down some doors," Bazooka Proof frontman Czech D announces on The Lavaroom Recordings. We second that, as this is one of the area's more overlooked bands.

With D singing in a forceful croon, Bazooka Proof sweats out harmony-laden hard rock with gang vocal choruses and guitars crunchier than broken glass. The band's two most recent EPs are short and not-so-sweet blasts of hooks and hellfire. Surprisingly funky in places, with Smokehouse's wah-wah guitar and frantic soloing, these discs veer from fleet-footed punk (an ace cover of the Misfits' "Return of the Fly") to beefy metal ("Dogbite"). D's lyrics are a little clunky at times ("I never win/I'm just a sin"), but as these EPs demonstrate, his fortunes are clearly improving.

Like this story?
SCENE Supporters make it possible to tell the Cleveland stories you won’t find elsewhere.
Become a supporter today.