Pittbull

Note the second “t”…

This is another band that I loved back in the day and have recently rediscovered, but don’t know squat about. When I clicked around a bit to find some info about the band I didn’t get very far, which is probably due to the fact that “Pittbull” (even with the extra “t” and combinations of other hardcore-specific words) is not a good search term to google. Plus I get bored easily. So you’ll have to do with a link to the grainy images on LastFM and the tidbit that they were from Detroit, which is somewhat fitting because they remind me a lot of a metal-influenced version of Negative Approach. The main reason for that comparison is the unearthly growl that the singer has, which reminds me a lot of N.A.’s John Brannon (who on a completely unrelated side note is currently fronting another great dirty rock band called Easy Action).

While unsuccessfully combing the internets for some more info on this here little band I saw that you can also dl this and all other Pittbull releases on the fantastic Zer blog. Those later records are actually all really good, too, and maybe in some aspects even better than this self-titled debut, but for sentimental reasons I still like this release (1991 on Nemesis) best and I don’t find myself listening to those other records as often.

You can also still buy a “best of” (no, actually it’s called “the very worst of Pittbull”, ha, ha, so clever, what will they think of next?) from surpriseattackrecords.

Pittbull