Rating: 4/5
JACK Black and Kyle Gass return with their third album, six years after their previous record and the band’s film Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny.
Rize Of The Fenix - both the album and title track - follows the same narrative vein, detailing how the pair’s rock-god alter-egos cope with getting older.
The Ballad Of Hollywood Jack And The Rage Kage covers how Black’s film career affected their friendship, while the tongue-in-cheek Deth Starr encapsulates the record’s ’plot’.
Musically, their familiar combination of obscene and darkly humorous lyrics, thrashing guitars, cliched rock ’n’ roll and crude silliness is interspersed with conversational tracks and a Mexican detour on Senorita, which fans will love here.
Natalie Bowen
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here