If any real-life band could stand in for Bill & Ted’s Wyld Stallyn’s, it would be The Dirty Nil. The Canadian trio love marrying pop-rock smarts to big dumb riffs, while treating everything from love to car crashes with irreverence. So if their third album’s foot-shooting title (or getting Gilbert Gottfried to review their lead single) indicates the band take the yucks a little too seriously, it’s certainly in line with their personal mantra: troll the world. On that note, the injection of thrash metal here cranks their guitar-worshipping antics to cartoonish levels. Opener Doom Boy is a hard-riffing hoot, but far better is the galloping Ride Or Die which sounds like Lemmy fronting Cheap Trick. On the sweeter side, it also feels fitting that Blunt Force Concussion m...
