BLACK KNOTS- Guitarmageddon CD. After a self released debut full length on the bands own Oil River Records, the BLACK KNOTS are back with an abosulutely thunderous, mind numbing record. Riff after riff, song after song the BLACK KNOTS plow through the competition by doing what so many bands have failed miserably at attempthing. Rockin’ out. In the same league as long standing riff demons like the Candy Snatchers, New Bomb Turks, the Hellacopters and Zeke; the BLACK KNOTS flawlessly spew 10 fierce, vicious rippers that so many “kiddy bands” could only aspire to write. The small, college town of Huntington, West Virginia has bred the BLACK KNOTS well. Raised on a steady diet of AC/DC, Thorougood, Iron Maiden, the Stooges, Motorhead, Radio Birdman and Judas Priest; the BLACK KNOTS have spent many a years disecting the core elements that become the nucleus of the BLACK KNOTS sound. Monsterous, ear splitting riffs built around a brooding, thunderous back bone and sealed by the boastly, lecherous snarl of their charasmatic front man Jerry Lee Queen. Sounds like these don’t come from just any band and god damn, if they don’t play it well. On June 6th, 2005 the Hellacopters released an album called ‘Rock N Roll Is Dead’. Ya I can definately agree with that. But leave it to the BLACK KNOTS to go above and beyond the call of duty to resuscitate the cadaver.