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Austin’s Southern Front serves up brutality with a smile on its latest EP. The title track thrashes violently enough to rend flesh and slaughter souls, but by the time the local quintet rants about a “Beerzerker,” goofy grins sit alongside popping eyes and flying fingers. With a chorus one-half social protest and the other Dada verse, “Pig For Nail” splits the difference with a bloody hatchet. 
This article appears in August 2 • 2013.
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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle. More by Michael Toland
