Str8 Outta Northcote is the second full-length album from Australia

Australia

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n grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

 band Blood Duster

Blood Duster

Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City.-History:...

, its title being a parody of the NWA

NWA

-Nwa:*Nwa, Kale, a village in Burma*Nwa, Cameroon, a commune in the Nord-Ouest region of Cameroon-Groups or organizations:* Northwest Airlines, a defunct U.S...

 album Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton

The lyrics on the album were mainly written by Ice Cube and MC Ren. Critics of the album expressed their view that the record glamorized Black-on-Black crime, but the emcees stated that the group was simply showing the reality of living in the areas of Compton, California, and South Central Los...

. Northcote

Northcote, Victoria

Northcote is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Darebin...

 is the suburb in Melbourne where most of the band lived at the time.

According to the album's liner notes, it features 69 riffs and 758 words, listed in the style of Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

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’s Live After Death

Live After Death

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. Blood Duster decided to mostly abandon their grind style for this album, delivering instead some catchy Southern rock

Southern rock

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-style riffs, reminiscent of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...

 – the band even makes use of a Hammond

Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

 B3 electric organ

Electric organ

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, played by guitarist Finn Alman's mother.

The band’s good-humored offensive lyrics are also present, with the band attacking vegans, girls, hippies, punks

Punk subculture

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, the music industry and even the label itself

Relapse Records

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.

The album also features many audio samples from movies.

It should also be noted that Blood Duster pay homage to Kyuss

Kyuss

Kyuss is a rock band, originally from Palm Desert, California. After forming in the late 1980s and releasing an EP under the name Sons of Kyuss in 1990, the band shortened its name to Kyuss. Over the next five years the band released four full-length albums, and one last split EP in 1997 with...

 in two noticeable ways on this album. First, the back cover of the album is identical to the cover of the album "Welcome to Sky Valley

Welcome to Sky Valley

Welcome to Sky Valley is the third studio album by American stoner rock/metal band Kyuss, originally released on June 28, 1994.-Album information:...

" by Kyuss, except the sign has been Photoshopped to read 'Northcote 32, Springvale

Springvale, Victoria

Springvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, approximately 20 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong...

 20, Compton 6'. Secondly, one of the tracks on the album ends identically to the Kyuss song "Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop", also from the album "Welcome To Sky Valley".

Track listing

1. Givin' Stiff to the Stiff – 1:59
2. Hippie Kill Team – 0:27
3. Metal as Fuck – 3:14
4. I Hate Girls and Crusty Punx – 0:17
5. Chop-Chop – 0:45
6. Tittie – 0:50
7. Motherload – 0:42
8. The Meat Song [Stiffy in McDonalds] – 1:47
9. Deathsquad – 0:11
10. Instrumental I – 1:43
11. The Simple Life – 0:30
12. Where Does All the Money Go When Releasing a Full Length Album – 2:38
13. It's Just Not Metal – 1:59
14. Celebrating 35% Pig Fat – 0:38
15. F.S.S – 0:35
16. Oohahh – 1:28
17. Derek2 – 0:31
18. Rollcall – 2:27
19. Shoved up Your Pisshole – 2:14
20. Ballad of Hoyt – 0:33
21. Pure Digital Silence – 9:56
22. Bonus Track – 6:56

Band members

• Tony Forde – Vocals
• Finn Alman – Guitar, vocals on track 17
• Jason P.C. – Bass, vocals on tracks 2 and 17
• Euan Heriot – Drums

Guests

• Bucky - Guest vocals on Tracks 4 and 7
• Dr Jim - Guest vocals on Track 12
• Kate – Guest vocals on Track 7
• Marlana Alman – Hammond
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
   B3 Organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  on Track 5
• Mike F.B. - Guest vocals on Track 14
• Richie Poate - Guitar at end of Track 22
• V (Jason Vasallo) - Guest vocals on Track 14

Other credits

• Words and music - Jason P.C. and Fin Allman
• Artwork - Craig Westwood
• Disc art - Simon Moon’yah!
• Art direction – Jason P.C.
• Photography – Samantha Albert