| The Unholy Handjob | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | DUH |
| Cover: | DUH - The Unholy Handjob.jpg |
| Genre: | Alternative metal |
| Length: | 35:39 |
| Label: | Alternative Tentacles |
| Producer: | Paul Barker, Dean Menta |
| Prev Title: | Blowhard |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
The Unholy Handjob is the second studio album by DUH, released in 1995 by Alternative Tentacles.[1]
Because of the less than serious nature of the project, the music of The Unholy Handjob is based around simplified riffs and notably more alternative metal-based than its predecessor, which was firmly rooted in noisy garage rock and sludge metal. The track "Pricks Are Heavy" is a live performance of the band opening for L7 at Whisky a Go Go. The track's title is a pun of Bricks Are Heavy by L7, comprises a tongue-in-cheek and haphazardly performed medley of "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana, "Basket Case" by Green Day and "Shitlist" by L7 in-between vocalist Greg Werckman aggressively taunting the crowd.[2]
Ned Raggett, who had written a positive review of the band's debut, was critical of The Unholy Handjob. He gave the album two-and-a-half out of five stars, saying "the vocalist (clearly not Biafra, that much is clear) aims for yelled pseudo-metal smoothness, if such a thing exists, and the riffs and songs are as rockingly clichéd as they get. If Butt Trumpet, say, had done this kind of thing, nobody would have noticed much about it, and if it had been marketed as a direct parody, doubtless little would have cared."
Adapted from The Unholy Handjob liner notes.[3]