### Sawthis: Egod

#### 10/11/10 || Lord K Philipson

What do you do when your band’s name is Sothis and you notice someone else already took that word for their band? Naturally you re-name yourselves. But you don’t wanna lose the 2 fans you have so you change it to something that sounds like your old moniker.

Exit Sothis, enter Sawthis.

That is just a mind-blowingly bad choice moniker-wise. I mean, hello? Can you Seethis, Sawthis? Yeah, you Sawthat, Sawthis. Saywhat, Seethose? Come on… I could do this all day. Shit name. Sawshit. I give up.

Apparently Sawtooth will “shock me with a recipe made up of Machine Head, Slipknot and a lot of personal vision of music”. That’s what their MySpace says. This means that the Italian stallions at hand will fire up some borderline American plague metal, I guess. I’m not sure I am ok with that. They also use this sad smiley on some of their merch/web-pages and whatnot, like they are trying to make point – these guys are sad/angry. BEWARE!

But hey, Slipknot and Machine Head aren’t the worst bands in the universe so maybe them playing a huge part in Sawthis’ music isn’t such a bad thing, huh? Well, we’ll see about fucken that. There is hope though, their bassist is called Gae.

Haha.

“Egod” (another point taken away for supershitty title though I am sure it has a very deep meaning to the one who invented it) holds 10 tracks of, surprise, American plague metal. I hear more of Machine Head (though not much) than Slipknot in the music, but what I hear first and foremost is pretty shitty material with absolutely no own identity. On top of that we have the pure misfortune of being handed incredibly, incredibly crappy clean vocals all over the fucken place in between the regular (not-so) tough-guy screams. I wonder when people will fucken learn – if you can’t sing, DON’T FUCKEN SING! But it’s not enough with having a shit moniker, shittier clean vocals, juvenile song titles and 3rd class song writing – oh no. We need a production with irritatingly triggered toms on top of it all. Thank fuck we got that as well. And listen to the soccer choirs (among other things) in “Barabba”. I am sure they put it there to come across as unique and innovative. Hey, Sawthis – it’s not working. You guys need a lot of fucken assistance to make something worthwhile out of this mess that is your band.

I think the best thing that will come out of this is that GD will get even more badly spelled hatemails from Italians, telling us we “can’t take them by ass” and so forth. That is some magnificent comedy right there.

I have a new name for your band, by the way… Dismissthis.

You are most welcome.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Scarlet
- Website: Sawthis MySpace
- Band
- Ale: vocals
- Adriano: guitars
- Devis: guitars
- Gae: bass
- Mick: drums, vocals

- Tracklist
- 01. Mr. Zero
- 02. Act Of Sorrow
- 03. Baraba
- 04. Him Mortality
- 05. A.B. Senses
- 06. Twonity
- 07. The Egod Teeth
- 08. I Hate You
- 09. Stain
- 10. Vanity