BEFORE HE WAS Skindred’s master of ceremonies, Benji Webbe was doing… well, pretty much the same thing with Dub War. The Newport crossover crew released a pair of albums in the 90s that melded metal and reggae and, at the time, sounded totally unlike anything else in music. Both 1995’s Pain and 1996’s Wrong Side Of Beautiful are great lost gems, well worth investigating. But that was then, and do Dub War still stand up 26 years later?
Broadly speaking, yes, they do. The main hurdle might be that, well, aren’t Skindred doing this exact thing already? Kind of. sound sort of similar to his main job, there are key differences in Dub War. Skindred are a forwardthinking band, who clearly strive to
