THE HEAVIEST [AND MOST METAL] FUNK I’VE EVER HEARD

I went through a big funk phase in college where I’d venture over to the record store every Saturday (Encore in Ann Arbor, MI) and peruse the shelves for the heaviest, dirtiest, funkiest ’70s funk I could find. I still listen to a lot of that music, and it’s one of the genres that [non-]MetalGF and I share as common ground. I mean, how can you not dig this shit?

But none of it was as heavy as what I’m hearing on the MySpace page of ex-Steve Vai / current Headhunters bass player TM Stevens. Shit is just downright dirrrrrrrty! If bands like Extreme, Scatterbrain, early FNM etc were funk metal, then TM Stevens plays metal funk — make sense? This shit is nasty, and I’ve had it in constant rotation for days now — big funky grooves, monster distorted guitar riffs, slap bass, scorching guitar solos (courtesy of Nuno Bettencourt on “Gotta Get My Groove On”) and everything else that makes me wanna smoke a giant fatty J and get my fucking groove on. This isn’t music to make love to… it’s music to FUCK to.

-VN

Thanks: The Gideon

Photo credit: Christophe Lesbats