From RAZORCAKE magazine, 08/2006

From Independent Clauses (May 2006):

Dropguns website header sums up this band wonderfully. It says Dropgun, Filthy Rock and Roll- and that is exactly what it is; filthy, disgusting, dirty old school punk. While the old-school punk genre will never be my favorite, it works well with Dropgun. The four men of Dropgun have taken all their anger and rage and thrown it into 10 tracks (plus three throwaway tracks that total 18 seconds in length) about general life in a crappy town in the Midwest. The songs of Devil Music focus on things like slutty girls, a guy who wants to be in a band, suicide, and being poor. Nothing surprising, but it really is nice to hear a band get back to basics in the punk scene. These guys have taken the sounds of The Misfits and Dead Boys and added their own twist in the form of extended guitar solos to get a sound that is original- a rarity in the punk scene. If old-school punk is your thing, this is an album you must check out. If not, you still might want to, because Dropgun isnt your average punk band.

-Scott Landis

From High Bias:

DROPGUN
Devil Music
(Ho Fist!)
I guess Drew Carey was right, "Ohio rocks!" One of the state's best punk-metal bands, Dropgun recently released its second hardcore album Devil Music. Songs like "Strip Disco" and "Walk of Shame" will have angst-ridden teenagers screaming for more, while their parents yell, "Turn down the volume. My eardrums are bleeding!" What's most impressive about this band is that Dropgun is a DIY project. The four members write, record and mix their own heart-pounding, mind-blowing songs. They even do their own photography and graphic design. In today's world of huge labels and flashy CD covers, that's impressive. Deirdre Walsh (High Bias 3/31/06)

From NEUFUTUR magazine:

Dropgun – Devil Music / 2005 Ho Fist Records / 10 Tracks / http://www.dropgun.com / http://www.myspace.com/dropgun / Reviewed 14 March 2006

Dropgun hails from Akron, and starts off their “Devil Music” with a fury of tracks that showcase their mixed style of precursor-punk (MC5) with newer strains of the style (Rancid, early Green Day) for something that is hard-edged without being completely unlikable. It seems as if the seventies punk revival of bands like Gluecifer and the Hellacopters has made its way to Northern Ohio. Tracks like “Cut Me Off” rely on fairly simple arrangements but as the common saying goes “it’s all about how you use it”. Dropgun sticks to a smaller range of sounds but ratchets things up when they need to.

This means when a track like “Cut Me Off” starts to flag, a sizzling guitar solo is plopped down for the delight of all listening. Even though only about 100 people will get the reference, a song like “Sunshine Let Down” is reminiscent of The Pissants (NY); for those who are not familiar, the track is like a more intense Goo Goo Dolls off their first (1987ish) album. The shrill guitars present during the track are influenced by but ultimately go farther than those put down by The Offspring, and by the end of “Sunshine Let Down”, Dropgun has another track that they can qualify as a success. “Strip Disco” is a slower track for Dropgun and shows that they can admit to liking the old ‘Stones; while the guitars carry a little more fuzz than anything that the Stones could cut, the sleazy, raunchy sound of the track is a direct descendent of Mick Jagger’s antics.

While each of the tracks on “Devil Music” are catchy and fun in their own right, Dropgun takes the leap and makes a track that will bash every listener over their head with singable lyrics and a groove that will infect listener’s soul. Couple that with a gritty set of vocals and Dropgun have their ticket ready to be punched. Dropgun ends their “Devil Music” with a sound that is solid throughout but has enough new brought to the table with each track to keep individuals coming back for more. The band has cut two albums and they already seemed like old hands at the whole hit creation things; methinks it will only be a short while before Dropgun is going out with revivalist bands like Tiger Army or anyone off of Punkcore and winning fans by the barrelful.

Top Tracks: Think Twice, Walk of Shame

Rating: 6.9/10

[JMcQ]

Dropgun – Devil Music

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From Cleveland Scene:

Dropgun is the kind of band that hard-drinking legions form an army around. "We're gonna show you how to rock," promises singer Bill E. Rotic (that was Tim - ed.), sneering like a British gob-hawker on "Get It," one of 10 equally rockin' songs from the Akron punkers' long-time-coming sophomore album.

A brazen affair, Devil Music is a hybrid of 1978 punk and 2005 Swedish garage rock, rumbling with riffing so heavy, it's almost metal. Social Distortion would have done well to recruit guitarist Paul Hooper, who rips like he has something to prove and nothing to lose. Dropgun's ace players are old enough to have original versions of the old-school T-shirts now mass-produced for Hot Topic, so the kids might not recognize this disc as some of Northeast Ohio's best current punk. But crack a brew, crank "Shoot" and "Cut Me Off," and there'll be no denying that Devil Music is the cowbell album of the year. (DX Ferris, Cleveland Scene 11/30/05)

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