The Shell Corporation's New Album Has Nothing to Do with Gas and Everything to Do with Punk

As we’re sure you don’t need to be told, there are some terrible bands out there. Really terrible. Part of the reason they’re so terrible is that they grew up listening to terrible bands and then went on to form their own even terrible-er band. Seriously, we saw a band the other day who listed their influence as Sevendust. SEVENDUST. Can you imagine what a second-rate carbon copy of Sevendust sounds like? Not good. Fortunately, the Shell Corporation (no affiliation with the gasoline company) seem to be cut from a better cloth.

The Berkeley band sound like they take a lot of musical cues from bands like Bad Religion, Propagandhi, Good Riddance, and all those melodic golden-era Epitaph bands of yesteryear. Their very non-Sevendust album Mandrake is out next week via Paper + Plastick. You can stream the whole damn thing below. Order it right here and check out their tour dates opening for not Sevendust below.