by Eduardo RivadaviaBecause their chunky, modern thrash comes inextricably laced with an at times overbearing taste for comedy, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder's 2005 debut, Buried in the Front Yard, is bound to divide metalheads both accepting (a minority) and humorless (a majority) into love/hate camps -- even before they give the music a fair shot. This would be a pity since the album is, for the most part, pretty entertaining and certainly very well executed, without ever trying to reinvent the wheel. Behold semi-normal tracks like "Let the Fools Cheer," "Ode to Tanks," and the Stryper-lampooning "Orange and Black Attack" for solid examples of the band's tightly controlled, Annihilator-like delivery; then prepare for much eyebrow-raising confusion (or hilarity, as it were) as they grow steadily wackier thanks to self-dubbed "criminal thrash" workouts like "Stealing E.T." and "Grab a Shovel (We've Got Bodies to Bury)." Moving right … » Read more