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HÄRDROCKER
Rider Of The Night

Ripride (2022)
Rating: 7/10

Out of Mexico City comes this one-man project created a chap named Moy Härdrocker. Moy likes to dabble in midnight metal under an unashamedly bad moniker, but go beyond that and let yourself succumb to what is essentially an orgy of Motörhead, Venom, Bulldozer, Hellhammer, Darkthrone et al with Toxic Holocaust and the likes supplying the alcohol.

However derivate and one dimensional it may be, this debut full-length offering knows how to rattle the bones and pull teeth. From the opening title cut, ‘Rider Of The Night’, through to the smoking ‘Black Leather Speed Patrol’ and the ravenous ‘Speed Motorized Rock N Roll’ this is fully cranked, beered-up party metal.

The comedic titles just keep on rolling in on black waves of rust n’ lust as ‘666 cc’ casts off nuts n’ bolts to a Motörhead speedfest, while sandwiched between the crust are the ballsy ‘Rocker’ and ‘Outlaw’, both equally simplistic yet riveting.

Moy’s tone is that of a drunken orc stumbling into an old rural inn and laying waste to the alcohol and the inhabitants; raucous and riotous as he channels those half-hinted and perverse Bulldozer traits.

Rider Of The Night is vigorous, speedy, punk-infused metal with blackened energy. Tuck in.

Neil Arnold

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