...nobody's going to mistake Big Elf for Lucifer's Friend. A biker Queen, maybe....(more)

...this record is even more high concept than when the Mitchell Brothers cast a monkey to play God in that Biblical porn movie they did...(more)

...If you're into Kris Kristofferson or the New York Loose, you're gonna adore Cookie...(more)

...this record is all flying shrapnel...(more)

...drug-buzzing blacklight rainbow riffs that weighed a ton and hurled themselves around a jelly -walled funhouse of electric fuzz...(more)

...the erotics are rock with it's heart ripped out...(more)

...it'll keep fucking you, long and hard and with spiritual intent, forever...(more)

...chicken wire savages, with every plug jammed into the right socket...(more)

...massive bedeviled fuck fest of triple- speed thrash metal flail...(more)

 ...a slinky collection of (mostly) scandinavian garage swagger...(more)

...you've got to take your pants off when you want to dance to king khan...(more)

...meldrum are the van halen of swedish metal chicks...(more)

...the nifters take up where the backyard babies left off when they turned into def leppard...(more)

...warping the entire universe into one endless, muddy orgy of mirror shades and honcho mustache wearing rock dude bliss...(more)

...one rolling bundle of sweaty desperado boogie...(more)

...teen feeding frenzy is what would happen if you took a random hour's worth of mix playlists and handed them over to a gang of vampires...(more)

...'welcome to norway' is the greatest, and only, heavy metal travel guide of all time...(more)

...they are obsessed with black pussy and spend their spare time popping pills...(more)

...like tool with muscles and motorbikes and complicated black leather masks...(more)

...meaty hooks that boil around in your brain like bad ideas that won't go away...(more)

...sizzling guitar villainy and a lusty battle roar...(more)

...I never expected to hear any band straddle grunge and death metal in the same career, never mind the same fucking song...(more)

...these cats ain't a bunch of pot-smoking hippies, so there's no stoner-jazz on display. there are bongos, though...(more)

...they are everything you suspected and feared about french pop...(more)

...forget death metal and horror punk- for truly perverse musical morbidity, the dead brothers are the real underground. pun intended...(more) 

...a dive-bombing, brain eating form of pure acid-fried pseudo -industrial madness that has zero to do with whatever you imagine techno is...(more)

satan is a headbanger, that much you already knew. But he also likes to go to the disco, occasionally...(more)

...If you're looking for actual good soundtrack music, well, you're in the wrong place, jack. But nobody ever looked to hg lewis for good, anyway...(more)

...sounds like pentagram playing "ride the lightning" with that crazy fucker from nme on bass...(more)

...for the duration of its 8 supersonic odes to bad drinking and good times, it's absolutely perfect...(more)

...think zz top reaping the whirlwind on judgement day, flames licking the fur off of their spinning guitars...(more)

...have no fear, brothers and sisters, zodiac mindwarp lives and seethes...(more)

...chugging guitars, sounds like hundreds of them, come flying out of the speakers like black arrows of death...(more)

...sounds like the slow motion death scene of a grizzly bear with an arrow in it's belly...(more)

...a stunning 3 disc dvd set of their shrieking, industrial strength devil rock...(more)

...this is one of the best singer-songwriter records I've ever heard, honestly. yeah, I know, motherfucker, it's not like I'm deluged with them, but I've heard a few. I've dated hippie girls, you know...(more)

...raw, slutty rock and roll that brings to mind the plasmatics, the dead boys, and whatever eyeliner wearing street punk band you can think of...(more)

...a red, white, and blue glitter bomb of lysergic riot rock...(more)

...gorgeous and blood engorged in equal measure...(more)

...dirty fuzz from all the really cool and famous white people countries...(more)

...urge overkill as pinball fantasy, maybe, or poison's white bellbottom tribute to abba...(more)

...speed, ferocity, and an (un)healthy dose of gg allin-esque misogyny...(more)

...spy jazz and crime surf and secret agent fuzz and dangerous curves...(more)

...soulful ballads and semi-acoustic sleaze rock and bliss pop and melancholy glitter folk...(more)

...enough hooks to land them in the arena, and enough firepower to burn it down to the ground...(more)

...this is the best punk compilation I've ever heard...(more)

...raw, immediate, and close enough to touch, if you don't mind losing a finger in the process...(more)

...big, meaty, sleaze metal guitars and sarcasm drenched cyber-beat poet lyrics...(more)

...the same dusty neighborhood as marty robbins and hank snow and tex ritter- and maybe tex perkins, if you want to get sinister about it...(more)

the last time san francisco unleashed this kind of thunder on us, dave mustaine was still playing lead on "hit the lights"....(more)

...these wild hearted sons channel the ageless hipbone slither of soul n' swagger demi-gods like the faces, aerosmith, guns, black crowes, mother love bone, and the london quireboys...(more)

...the absolute king hell boss daddies of redneck biker metal...(more)

...long haired stoner kids in styx t-shirts getting wasted on cases of bud in the woods...(more)

...stunningly executed swamp rock with twinges of casual psychedelia...(more)

...led like a slave girl with a nose ring by swaggering guitar heroism...(more)

...black dawn actually sound like demons screaming from the darkest bowels of hades...(more)

...melancholy drinking songs and hard, rootsy rock and roll...(more)

 ...a medicated swirl of Velvets drone and trippy, voluptuous Mazzy Star-ry crooning...(more)

...as haunting as you remember...(more)

...they sound like the animals fronted by stiv bators, only hairier...(more)

...full throttle thrash n' roll - bullet belt glam, even...(more)

...every song is about rock and roll or chicks or the dukes of hazard...(more)

...unida, but not kyuss...(more)

...state of the art depression wrapped up in a gorgeous black bow...(more)

...loud, hard, sleazy, funny...(more)

...ian astbury playing the weary high priest to billy duffy's stiff-lipped dog soldier...(more)
...the perverse granddaddies of the almighty wicked riff...(more)
...they take zz top and ac/dc riffs, and they strangle the fuckin' things...(more)

...every bit of the monster you'd imagine...(more)

...paying bloody-knuckled homage to bluesy biker metal glory riders of yore like four horsemen, little caesar, and junkyard...(more)

...one machine-gunning line of focused anger...(more)

...take a chunk of a stones or sweet riff, wrap it around a bubblegum garage beat, heat to boiling, and let it rip...(more)

...the band that single-handedly injected some much needed action, adventure, and outright danger in rock and roll...(more)

...welding gutter punk and sleaze metal together like a big, ugly Frankenstein...(more)

...a comprehensive collection of swagger rock that stretches from the gutter to the stars...(more)

...it's not just an homage to the man in black's songs, but to the- that's right- chaos that they cause...(more)

...they fervently worship at the temples of ancient, ruthless gods of thunder, and they have learned their lessons well...(more)

...this record is so metal, it's like the definition of metal...(more)