{"id":14445,"date":"2013-10-01T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2013-10-06T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:15:48","slug":"album-review-shameless-beautiful-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-shameless-beautiful-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAMELESS – Beautiful Disaster (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHAMELESS
Beautiful Disaster<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRSR Music (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sordid, sickly glam rockers Shameless are somewhat of a who\u2019s who of the rock \u2019n\u2019 roll scene. The band were originally formed in Germany by bassist Alexx Michael in 1989, who is joined in this latest incarnation of Shameless by vocalist Steve \u201cSex\u201d Summers (formerly of Pretty Boy Floyd), guitarists Michael Thomas and B.C., and sticksman Tod T Burr.<\/p>\n

Over the years, this lipstick \u2019n\u2019 leather outfit have reeled in more special guests on their albums than I\u2019ve had hot dinners! The end product of course is that Shameless live up to their name, playing an insalubrious dose of hard rock and sleazy metal that brings together the expected yet always sprightly influences of T-Rex, Kiss, The Ramones, bubblegum pop, bouncy punk, and riotous rock. <\/p>\n

Beautiful Disaster<\/em> is the sixth opus from Shameless, coming two years after 2011\u2019s Dial S For Sex<\/em>. Thankfully it\u2019s another catchy as hell, sleazy as fuck, 11-track after-show party that spends all of its lifespan stomping, spitting, spluttering and scratching like the dirty whore it wants to be, building its foundations on those sleaze-ridden yet jaunty guitars as well as Summers\u2019 hairsprayed snarl. <\/p>\n

The platter opens with the boisterous punkoid sauna that is \u2018Greed Is God\u2019, a track which is anthemic, commercial and given an extra dose of the fits by that fluttering bass. It\u2019s strange that America boasted so many fake punk rock bands in the mid to late 90s, and yet it\u2019s bands like Shameless who provide the genuine entertainment. Nowhere is this attitude more evident than on the snarling \u2018You\u2019re Not Cinderella\u2019 and the pompous strut of \u2018Forever Ends Today\u2019 with its squeak riff and Faster Pussycat-styled smirk. <\/p>\n

Shameless are about as party rock \u2019n\u2019 roll as it gets, and the influences are there to hear, like on the stomping \u2018Fiction & Reality\u2019, which is pure Alice Cooper and hides a dark heart under that cracked smile.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dear Mum\u2019 is an unexpected ditty, because with that title I expected some corny 80s metal ballad, and yet I sense a sarcastic tone with this upbeat little rocker. The song also features the vocal talents of Cherie Currie (ex-The Runaways), who makes her first appearance on record since 1998! Currie also contributes to the ballad \u2018You\u2019re Not Comin\u2019 Home\u2019 and on a delicious reworking of the T-Rex classic \u2018Life\u2019s A Gas\u2019.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, there is also a sublime piano-based version of the Alice Cooper classic \u2018Eighteen\u2019 featuring Tuff vocalist Stevie Rachelle.<\/p>\n

Shameless are certainly not the band you\u2019d bring home to meet your mum, but if you\u2019re desperate to bridge the gap between 70s glam, 80s sleaze and modern punk-pop, then Beautiful Disaster<\/em> is one orgy you need to participate in, whatever the consequences!<\/p>\n

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

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