Prelude
Review from Dayton City Paper
Freq: South Park metalheads
Soundbytes
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 03:36 PM
By Leslie Benson
Freq: South Park metalheads
If Cartman and Kyle from Comedy Central's "South Park" grew up and formed a metal band with two of their friends, Dayton's own Freq might resemble the outcome. Nowhere else will you find such committed, comic, metalhead geniuses with a genuine respect for the recording process and the business of working together as a unit.
Rather than terrorizing a small mountain valley community with skewed ideas of world domination and easy money-making from the minds of children, the members of Freq take on Dayton with ideas of musical domination. Okay, maybe not domination, but they certainly want their crazy songs about watching cartoons at 3 am and multiple skits about sitting in the band's practice space in a dazed stupor - commenting on such things as a mysterious pile moving in a corner - to be heard. But the humorous, metal-edged tunes