Bonnie Trash is the project of Italian-Canadian twins Emmalia & Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor. The rocking sisters respectively play guitar and sing in an all-girl four-piece band who go for the jugular with an impressive wall of metal sound. The rhythm section consists of Emma Howarth-Withers on bass and Dana Bellamy on drums
There is a pervasive atmosphere of lust, heartache and death in the nine songs. The effusive press blurb speaks in terms of ”a sorrow not as a lingering bruise, but a gushing wound after a sudden, swift dagger to the heart.”
The album begins with Grief and ends with it eats shadows, two ominous instrumentals that could easily serve to soundtrack the opening and closing credits of a blood-curdling horror movie.
Curiously, one can also detect the shadows of straightforward pop songs buried beneath the heavy riffs and grunge-driven dynamics.
My Love Remains The Same (Kisses Goodbye) and Poison Kiss might be touching love songs in other incarnations while the line "I see you in my dreams every night" in Hellmouth hints at amorous thoughts rather than hellfire devilry.
Ultimately though, dread wins the day so a song like and in the end, I'll wait for you is edged more with threat than promise.
A standout track is Your Love Is My Revenge. This is billed as “a torch song for the dark night of the soul” and illustrates that this is a band who know how to utilise gothic theatrics to fearsome effect.
