Revolver
is a new pseudo-supergroup formed by
former Slik Toxic frontman Nick Walsh. If that name is only ringing the
tiniest of bells, Slik were a semi-sleazy flash metal band from Canada who
imploded, along with everybody else, during the great flannel wars of the
‘90’s. Perhaps more recognizable to this audience is corkscrew haired
glam-dandy Sean Kelly of Bolan-boogie champs Crash Kelly, who’s filling in
on flash-slash lead guitar. There’s other dudes too, obviously, and they
deserve more credit then they get, but those are the two bigshots in the
band. The sound is melodic 80’s glam-metal, very close in tone and vision
to Skid Row, minus the face jewelry and speed metal. When the band really
gets cooking, as on the fearsome glam-grunge title track or the hook-heavy
riff rocker “Atomic Arcade”, they are state-of-the-art sleaze metal
slither-kings, on par with Dangerous Toys, or at least, Asphalt Ballet.
But they do a lot of power-ballad stuff, and even the hard songs have soft
spots, so the killing blow this kinda stuff usually delivers never comes.
Revolver will surely get eaten up like chocolate cake at a bulimia banquet
by the flash metal holdouts that still revel in, like, Firehouse reunion
albums, but glam-slammers will probably just wanna wait ‘til the next
Crash Kelly record drops.
Revolver
is a new pseudo-supergroup formed by
former Slik Toxic frontman Nick Walsh. If that name is only ringing the
tiniest of bells, Slik were a semi-sleazy flash metal band from Canada who
imploded, along with everybody else, during the great flannel wars of the
‘90’s. Perhaps more recognizable to this audience is corkscrew haired
glam-dandy Sean Kelly of Bolan-boogie champs Crash Kelly, who’s filling in
on flash-slash lead guitar. There’s other dudes too, obviously, and they
deserve more credit then they get, but those are the two bigshots in the
band. The sound is melodic 80’s glam-metal, very close in tone and vision
to Skid Row, minus the face jewelry and speed metal. When the band really
gets cooking, as on the fearsome glam-grunge title track or the hook-heavy
riff rocker “Atomic Arcade”, they are state-of-the-art sleaze metal
slither-kings, on par with Dangerous Toys, or at least, Asphalt Ballet.
But they do a lot of power-ballad stuff, and even the hard songs have soft
spots, so the killing blow this kinda stuff usually delivers never comes.
Revolver will surely get eaten up like chocolate cake at a bulimia banquet
by the flash metal holdouts that still revel in, like, Firehouse reunion
albums, but glam-slammers will probably just wanna wait ‘til the next
Crash Kelly record drops.