Just when I thought I was done drinking for the night, along come SuperHeavyGoatAss, blazing a whiskey trail (I don’t even know what that means) with new album Nemesis on Arclight Records, right out of the fabled climes of Austin, TX. Having borne ready and boozed witness to several of their sets at past SXSW festivals — including the latest and most kickass at last year’s Small Stone Records day party, where free Mexican food meant a long, intestinally-thrilling afternoon — I can say first hand that whatever these dudes bring on CD, they more than deliver live.

What they bring on CD, as it happens, is the rock. And they do it with love. You can tell. Their guitar solos harken a resounding clarion of Skynyrd recklessness with none of the 40-years-later posturing or bullshit of any kind. They know neither pretense nor moderation and when the stoner rock shuffle kicks in for “Another Piece,” oh yes it is most welcome.

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