Metal-damaged Southern rock loaded with guitar heroics and a few acoustic and/or piano-driven ballad tracks to add variety and give the listener a breather.
A band working a basically melodic mid-tempo rock that moves outside of rote “we like the Stooges” bar wipe, but doesn’t artificially look to be “different.”
These guys heave a chunk through the plate glass window stoner rock stares through checking out kickass. Pair’m with their brethern Bad Wizard on a 2-year tour.
Greatest hits cobbled together for the U.S.. Power pop melodies, rocker chomp, Mod flair, rock and roll tunes, perfectly-placed hooks, and unexpected heft.
Chopping a bit of Motörhead speed into powerhawg bellbottomed Nixon-era lines will spin your head just right. Sabbath covers are as obvious as they are correct.
Recording quality is great, the impression of an intimate setting is certainly there, but with the full rock’n’roll presence any Speedealer fan would expect.
Shit-hot “live-in-one-take” disc from one of the world’s foremost flamethrower aggropunk-rock units. Primal early rock and roll, punk dynamism, and metal chomp.
Dark Thirty starts off strong, but gets bogged down after a while in sludgy mid-tempo yowl. Production is as thick as steak, and just as juicy with blood.
Dave Grohl acknowledges his love for old-school metal by writing a bunch of songs and sending them to his favorite metal vocalists to add lyrics and vocals.