Single/Video Review: Edge Of The Universe

This morning I got the pleasure of being one of the very first people to see the latest release from Ginzu and the Steak Knives – Edge Of The Universe.

The second that you see a guy tied up on a chair inside a Pentacle, you know you are in for a treat. The first thing that came into my head as I started listening to this track and watching the video was how well mixed the track is. Surprise surprise, it’s engineered and mixed by Dave Rhodes.

Dave and I go way back as we’ve worked together many times, and I can tell you, he is nothing short of a perfectionist. He has worked with Blindspott, Head Like A Hole, Push Push and heaps of others, so there’s no surprises that he has captured Ginzu and the Steak Knives’ sound perfectly.

It’s been mastered by Luke Finlay from Primal Mastering, and he’s done a great job at not over-compressing and losing any of the sound spectrum.

The video is dark. Really dark. It’s so moody. If you shut your eyes for a second, I’d almost place Lemmy from Motorhead at the front of the band and he wouldn’t be out of place at all. The video is really very cool, really moody, a bit stabby, and involves a dude getting kicked in the nuts, which is all you could want in a music video from my perspective.

The storyline looks to me like a guy breaking out of a satanic style ritual, having won the fight to walk straight into the arms of a much bigger battle.

My only criticism (and it’s probably not really one, but I’m being pretty picky here) – I would have liked the colour grading just to be a little brighter so you could see a little more of what’s going on, it’s just a touch dark, however, that could totally be the monitor on my computer.

I have to say, I think they’ve matched the story & style of the vid perfectly to the gutsy raw feel that you get out of the song, which I might add is absolutely killer! The tune is a ripper, and I found myself listening it about 10 times back to back without getting sick of it. It’s got a massive amount of energy, and all of the chops are so clean. As a drummer I have to think about how much time got sunk into getting all the double kicks in sync because there is quite a lot of it going on! (AWESOME).

Definitely check this track out. It’s absolutely sick.