{"id":104659,"date":"2025-03-01T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104659"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:55:30","slug":"album-review-jizzy-pearls-love-hate-punk-rock-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-jizzy-pearls-love-hate-punk-rock-fiesta\/","title":{"rendered":"JIZZY PEARL\u2019S LOVE\/HATE – Punk Rock Fiesta! (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

JIZZY PEARL\u2019S LOVE\/HATE
Punk Rock Fiesta!<\/strong><\/span>
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\nKenyon (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And here it is again, that vocal which sent shivers down my spine and injected booze in my veins when I first heard Love\/Hate with their debut album Blackout In The Red Room<\/em>.<\/p>\n

During the late 80s and early 90s bands like this should have been massive, and yet in spite of a reasonable amount of success, mostly on the European circuits, they never got the recognition they deserved. Love\/Hate, certainly with their albums Blackout In The Red Room<\/em> (1990) and Wasted In America<\/em> (1992), should have been competing with Guns N\u2019 Roses; their sound was more versatile than Axl Rose and co. as Jizzy Pearl (vocals), Jon E. Love (guitar), Skid Rose (bass) and Joey Gold (drums) kicked out a myriad of colourful jams. Some were sleazy, some were funky, others punky, but overall they blew me away.<\/p>\n

Sadly, like a lot of bands – some cool, some not so – Love\/Hate fragmented, resulting in albums that didn\u2019t quite hit the dizzy or Jizzy heights of previous underrated classics. Jizzy Pearl became somewhat of a substitute musician, filling in as lead vocalist \u2013 albeit briefly \u2013 for popular bands such as Ratt, Quiet Riot and L.A. Guns. The singer also put out four solo albums before 2022 saw the return \u2013 sort of \u2013 of Love\/Hate, with Jizzy at the helm for Hell, CA<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Continuing to rip rock n\u2019 roll a new one, Jizzy again proves there\u2019s still life after the early 90s as \u2018You\u2019re Gonna Burn\u2019 comes stomping in with a simple yet effective riff provided by Darren Housholder. The attitude is very much punk rock, the music the same fiery, swaggering sleaze strut that graced Blackout In The Red Room<\/em> an incredible 35 years ago.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a one-off cut to hook you up then let you down, the album is awash with beefy, ballsy rock n\u2019 roll compositions which drip with sweat and charisma while being bolstered by Christian Kimmett\u2019s (Warrior Soul) burly bass and Dave Moreno\u2019s volatile beats.<\/p>\n

\u2018Over The Edge\u2019 is a colossal riff monster; a traipsing monolith that spits venom before the chorus glides emphatically to Jizzy\u2019s scowls, \u201cYour life is falling over the edge, and now your mind is going over the edge\u201d<\/em>. It\u2019s immediately infectious, keeping the same sort of pace as the L.A. Guns classic track of the same title.<\/p>\n

The juggernaut riffs continue to churn with \u2018I\u2019ll Be Your Shadow\u2019. \u201cShe\u2019ll tell me lies, yeah I\u2019ve been lied to… look in my eyes, and I\u2019ll remind you,\u201d<\/em> barks Jizzy. It\u2019s bombastic rock music but there\u2019s also room for colourful variations and blooms of wistful colour, particularly with the brilliance of \u2018Can\u2019t Be Wrong\u2019 with its breezy acoustic backing. It\u2019s here that Pearl shows the talent of depth we\u2019ve all come to adore but it doesn\u2019t end there. There\u2019s the punky, trashy anger of \u2018Didya Think You Could Fall In Love?\u2019, the equally potent and raucous \u2018The Wrath Of Love\u2019 and \u2018Eye For An Eye\u2019 and closing sleazebomb \u2018Time To Take Your Pill\u2019. All this quality is rammed into under half-an-hour and magically sewn together by Housholder\u2019s shredding.<\/p>\n

The fact that most of these songs wouldn\u2019t seem out of place on those early Love\/Hate albums is testament to just how good Pearl and company are. Jizzy is now in his late 60s and sounds exactly how he did in 1990\u2026 the power, the grit, the passion, the smoke, the fire. This rocks.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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