Bigger is better in Business

This is it … this is really it. This is the answer to metal and everything holy and heavy. Big Business is the real deal. Two guys with one mission: to rock your face off. Cody Willis and Jared Warren are the two magicians in charge here, and they've got the credentials. With a history of bands such as Karp, the Murder City Devils and, most recently, the almighty Melvins, these guys know what their doing. Here Come the Waterworks, their second full-length, will make you cry … with joy.\nFrom the very first note you know they mean business. Everything is bigger, louder, sludgier, heavier; everything in excess. "Just as the Day was Dawning" is the dawning of a record that will blow you out of the water. \nWarren roars and bellows through eight tracks with constant intensity. They never let up. And it's catchy apocalyptic music to hum along to. The meteors are raining down as everyone's fleeing in terror and you're humming, "Hands up, hands up, hands up to the people around you!"\nWillis' drums are all over the place, and Warren's bass is dirty and sinister. "Another Forth of July … Ruined" is just as haunting as it is brutal. It's the primal minimalism of a drop-tuned bass and a drum set and a pair of vocal chords that creates such a huge sound; you're left scratching your head wondering how something so loud and doom-impending can be so beautiful.\nAnd to top it all off, as the world is crashing down, they hit you hard. "I'll Give You Something to Cry About" is an epic nine minutes of mammoth riffs and colossal drumming that will leave you with a headache. Then the flames begin to dissolve. "Another Day in the Pacific Northwest" is a beautiful, tranquil piece that you weren't expecting but desperately need to recover from the storm you've just endured.