Straight out of Czech Republic. The weed smoking crew of POTHEAD is back in THA TOWN!!! Prague's Marijuana worshippers deliver their newest output called "Skunk Fiction: The tales from Žižkov".

Hip Grinding Gore Blast…öhmm….Goregrinding Hop weed Death…hmm…whatever you want to call the style this band is playing, it is a nice hybrid between Weed, grindcore and Hip Hop. They describe their style by themself as Guttural Weedcore or Gangsta Goregrind. I think that hits the spot exactly.

The band is building a great surrounding and atmopshere of the chosen topic. Selling their image very well from artwork of the album, song titles and sound. The 13 tracks on the album present a wide range of their picture how those two genres can collide and merge into one world.

If you take just one single element one by one, it is nothing special or something you haven't heard before. The marriage between those and the lovechild born is the speciality here. This is also what will stick in my head thinking of Pothead. The music itself seen from the Goregrind part is a mixture between Rompeprop, Carnal Diaffragma and 5 Stabbed 4 Corpses. Everything juiced up with own ideas and variation.

The Hip Hop elements and gangsta image keeps you in THA GAME while listening to this. I couldn't resist to have a smile on my face from time to time checking the material. It is for sure an entertaining record with a hybrid function that is not typicial for the foundation building extreme genre. In Slam Death Metal you find it more but not with GORE!

The last track "Land of Death" is a nice graduation of the record to show a different site of the band's abilities to create different music. They are here to tear down walls and break boundaries between genres. So don't set a limit to yourself and explore. Not even the sky is the limit!

If I aroused some curiosity for you guys now, don't hesitate to check this band out. Smoke weed, chillax and Grind on!!!

8,5 / 10

Cheers Zed