Reviewed by Chris Roberts
Released: 1980 Snowaxe We're All Different Genre: Cold Noodles Rating: 2 out of 5 Snowaxe! An unopened, mint copy of the Ontario power trio’s one and only LP, We’re All Different, sold for $100 in 2014. There are currently nine copies for sale on Discogs, and with Canadian shipping, you might be able to score one for closer to $50. Don’t try listening on the streamers either. It’s only available on Citizen Freak dot com, where it is free to play a billion trillion times if you want. Trust me, you don’t want to pay $100 or $50 for this album, even if you are some kind of heavy metal completist. Aside from their cool, edgy name, Snowaxe doesn’t sound very metal. For a few seconds, on a couple tracks (“Harlem’s Screamin’” and “Amigos”) there are some jammy bass noodles from Iam Nishio that recalled the experimental math rock band Battles. Mostly it’s just sub-Zeppelin, sub-Halen, sub-Hagar rock—and unfinished, unrehearsed to boot. Under better conditions, singer Ed McDonald has a decent voice (play a couple seconds of his 2008 solo album Incognito, under the name Eddie M, but don’t linger on it). With Snowaxe, McDonald apparently forgot to winterize his pipes, because there’s a lot of excess air on We’re All Different. An ounce of prevention, boys. A billion trillion times? I couldn’t listen to it a second time.
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