Brother O’Brother “Skin Walker” 2022. Romanus Records. I’ve been sitting on this LP for one month but since Brother O’Brother had their official record release show this past weekend at Romanus Fest in Indianapolis (which we had to miss since I was out of the country), I’m finally able to feature their latest release. We picked it up at one of their performances at Mile of Music in Appleton at the beginning of August and as always, their set was fast, heavy, loud and filled with electric sweat-drenched energy.

Skin Walker takes Brother O’Brother’s already monstrous sound to the next level. Thundering guitars and drums are HEAVY and passionate lyrics meld into a wall of head-banging fury. My favorite track is the ass-shaking, boot-stomping “Who Wants It, Who Gets It.” Also amazing is the psychedelic speed-metal “Elixir,” the single “Cyborg,” originally released in 2020 as part of a split 7″ with The Pack A.D., and the title track “Skin Walker” which they performed at the Mile of Music set at Chadwicks on Friday August 5th. The digital version of Skin Walker is set to drop this upcoming weekend so audio and video links will be more readily available after that. And for those unfortunate souls who haven’t made it to a BoB show lately to get the LP directly from the source, more vinyl will be available to pre-order from the band’s website in about a week.

And because Chris (guitar/vocals) and Warner (drums) are really great, sweet guys and know our kid really well, they recorded a video message for him after the show since he wasn’t able to be there with us. (Note: we did not leave him home with just ravioli to eat, but there was ramen)