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SAVAGE
Glory Riders

Dying Victims Productions (2023)
Rating: 8.5/10

If there’s one contemporary band that can transport you back to the halcyon days of the 80s it’s Germany’s Savage. I loved their 2022 self-titled debut EP outing and with Glory Riders the fiery band returns with more W.A S.P.-like heavy metal whether in the form of the raw Blackie Lawless vocals or the steaming, dense axe work – especially now that Savage has added another guitarist in Alex Warrior.

This is a band that knows how to construct throwback metal that will have you reaching for those old Lizzy Borden and Mötley Crüe albums. Savage is stripped down and mean metal that drips with fun too as the combo embarks on a scorching journey through corridors that drip with Hell’s fires.

A majority of tracks smoulder then kick into gear, striding leather-clad across the burning horizon and casting heaps of raw meat at its audience. Songs like ‘Carcass On Your Shoulders’, ‘Life In Chains’ and ‘Thirty & Dirty’ drive to the sound of Kevin Steelrider’s clanking bass and Tommy Z’s ferocious percussion. I hear lashings of old Halloween, doses of Dio and sprigs of lesser known German shock metallers Krank.

This is what you want from a heavy metal album, a tour de force of sleazy, dense and molten dynamics that revel in their worship of an era where parents feared our record collections and us teenagers feared the hairdresser.

Neil Arnold

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