Someone call animal control, because there is a dog on the loose. According to reports in the Ohio area, the varmint in question is a cross between a 'devil' and 'salty' dog, with long straggly hair, an unquenchable thirst for cheap beer ... and possibly rabid. That's right people, the hardest working band in hard rock is back with Poison Smile - with the same piss-poor attitude and love of all things anti-commercial.
By now we all know exactly what to expect from American Dog, and Poison Smile offers the same type of amphetamine driven hard rock that has garnered Michael Hannon and long-time cohort Steve Theado cult status among rockers who enjoy getting shit-face drunk to in -your-face heavy metal. The recipe is fairly straight-forward (and always has been), and the ass-kicking opener "Devil Dog" perfectly displays why this type of music works so well - with reckless abandon the track, along with "Lust And Greed" and "Off The Chain", hammer home the America Dog agenda through a wall of blazing guitars and a pounding bottom end.
Is Poison Smile better than its predecessors Hard and Mean? Not really, but it's no worse either ... instead think of it as a continuation. The American Dog blueprint was written years ago, and while they have streamlined their sound over the course of their career, the message remains clear ... get drunk, bang heads, or get the fuck out of the way. And like the song "Old Dog, New Tricks" states, "Nothin 'broken, is not nothin' to fix / can not teach an old dog new tricks" - so why change the formula now?[/spoiler]
1. Devil Dog [Explicit]
2. Just Like Charlie Sheen [Explicit]
3. Old Dog New Tricks [Explicit]
4 The Real Nitty Gritty [Explicit]
5. 2012 A.d [Explicit]
6. Poison Smile [Explicit]
7. Lust and Greed [Explicit]
8. Bathroom Romance [Explicit]
9. Splinterin Sally [Explicit]
10. Off the Chain [Explicit]
11. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog [Explicit]
American Dog – Poison Smile [Explicit] (2012)
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