ALBUM REVIEW: Rob Zombie – The Great Satan


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Perhaps you are still hanging onto the memory of White Zombie? This might have even kept you from being able to embrace Rob Zombie’s solo work. I can relate, but I am here to tell you that the more that passed between the release of “Astro-Creep 2000” and his current projects, the easier it is to gain the perspective that there is not much difference, and he kind of just picked up where he left off. With The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast Records), there is the more aggressive heaviness that marks days past, with a renewed energy to deliver these apocalyptic hymns.  Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper


The Revenge of Alice Cooper (earMusic) is the first album with the original Alice Cooper band since Muscle of Love. Making it the band’s 8th album together, and Cooper’s 30th. Bob Ezrin is handling production duties to help them remember what they did back in the day. It opens with the lead single “Black Mamba,” which is slinky and theatrical. Rather than try to recapture the fire that was burning when they recorded Muscle of Love, they are side-stepping this favor of touching on a more “Schools Out” style of borderline Broadway-drama mixed with the Garage Rock sound Cooper has been dipping his boots in the past few albums.  Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Kicked In The Teeth – Watling Street Chambers


In a better universe, Lemmy Kilmister lives. In that universe, Motorhead goes about twenty percent more Punk for their most recent album. 

Because we live in our universe, we got lucky. Kicked In The Teeth gave us Watling Street Chambers (Rare Vitamin Records), which my ears tell me might as well be the same thing.

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