Metalattakk
23-Feb-09, 23:33
At the start of the week I got my hands on the new album by Swedish metalheads Crucified Barbara, titled 'Til Death Do Us Party'.
This is their second album, following on from the critically acclaimed début 'In Distortion We Trust'.
Having been a bit of a fan of 'In Distortion...' I was certainly keen to see if they could expand upon their rather one-dimensional cheese-fest lyrics and somewhat limited songwriting and produce a more mature and rounded effort this time.
Well, I have much pleasure in reporting that yes, indeed, this seems to be a far more grown-up set of songs. Gone (well nearly) are the schoolboy references to sex, replaced by a hard as feck attitude and some of the biggest riffing I've heard since Metallica were worth admitting to a liking of.
A full-bodied metal guitar sound that Dave Mustaine would have given up drinking for, and some of the hardest and heaviest screaming choruses that you're likely to hear this side of a classic Judas Priest record, combined with the kind of pin-sharp drumming that Dave Lombardo would chuck in his gig with Apocalyptica for another chance at achieving once again, leads me to believe that this record is already a stick-on for Album of the Year.
If you like loud, hard, guitar-driven heavy metal (and I do), I don't think you can do better than this album.
From the aforementioned schoolboy-esque 'Sex Action' through their power-ballad 'Jennyfer' to the crushing 'Can't Handle Love' and 'Danger Danger', this is a magnificent Heavy Metal tour-de-force.
Oh, and the thing that tips the scales even further? They're all chicks. Chicks that play men's Heavy Metal, better than most men. For once, people, we have a girl-band that stands tall and fights toe-to-toe on level ground. And wins.
If you have the inclination, check their music out. If not, well it's your loss. ;)
This is their second album, following on from the critically acclaimed début 'In Distortion We Trust'.
Having been a bit of a fan of 'In Distortion...' I was certainly keen to see if they could expand upon their rather one-dimensional cheese-fest lyrics and somewhat limited songwriting and produce a more mature and rounded effort this time.
Well, I have much pleasure in reporting that yes, indeed, this seems to be a far more grown-up set of songs. Gone (well nearly) are the schoolboy references to sex, replaced by a hard as feck attitude and some of the biggest riffing I've heard since Metallica were worth admitting to a liking of.
A full-bodied metal guitar sound that Dave Mustaine would have given up drinking for, and some of the hardest and heaviest screaming choruses that you're likely to hear this side of a classic Judas Priest record, combined with the kind of pin-sharp drumming that Dave Lombardo would chuck in his gig with Apocalyptica for another chance at achieving once again, leads me to believe that this record is already a stick-on for Album of the Year.
If you like loud, hard, guitar-driven heavy metal (and I do), I don't think you can do better than this album.
From the aforementioned schoolboy-esque 'Sex Action' through their power-ballad 'Jennyfer' to the crushing 'Can't Handle Love' and 'Danger Danger', this is a magnificent Heavy Metal tour-de-force.
Oh, and the thing that tips the scales even further? They're all chicks. Chicks that play men's Heavy Metal, better than most men. For once, people, we have a girl-band that stands tall and fights toe-to-toe on level ground. And wins.
If you have the inclination, check their music out. If not, well it's your loss. ;)