{"id":3231,"date":"1987-06-01T00:00:34","date_gmt":"1987-06-01T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:46:27","slug":"demo-review-strutt-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-strutt-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTT – Demo (1987) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Older readers may remember East Londoner\u2019s Strutt when they appeared in Demolition<\/em> way back in issue #2 of Metal Forces<\/em>. Well, back then things didn\u2019t quite work for the band and they eventually split in early \u201986 and went their separate ways. However, Strutt have recently reformed and are back even stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

The current line-up features original members, vocalist Tony Smith (a.k.a. Tony James, ex-Deep Machine), guitarist Tony Harris (ex-Deep Machine \/ Burn) and bassist Lee Powis (a.k.a. Lee Valentine, ex-Burn), plus new recruite, drummer Graham Roberts (ex- Omega).<\/p>\n

Their current tape includes five tracks which are some of the strongest material I\u2019ve heard from a British hard rock band in a long while, and should at last gain Strutt the recognition that they deserve. They certainly blow away upstarts like Chrome Molly, whose latest album is a huge disappointment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Out Of Touch\u2019 and \u2018All I Want (Is All I Need)\u2019 are powerful commercial rockers, with the latter reminding me a lot of Dio. Whilst \u2018You Take My Breath Away\u2019 has a very strong Gary Moore-feel to it with a catchy chorus.<\/p>\n

The best track though is the boppy \u2018Stonecold\u2019, an instant classic which reminds me of UFO at their very best. The final number, \u2018Innocent Victim\u2019, is a more heavier, pacier affair which, as with all the band\u2019s material, has class stamped all over it.<\/p>\n

Strutt really are too good to be overlooked and it\u2019s about time a major label signed a British band with class, instead of trying to hype no-hopers like Heavy Pettin\u2019, Terraplane and the vastly overrated FM.<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 24 (1987)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STRUTT Strutt (1987) Older readers may remember East Londoner\u2019s Strutt when they appeared in Demolition way back in issue #2 of Metal Forces. Well, back then things didn\u2019t quite work for the band and they eventually split in early \u201986 and went their separate ways. However, Strutt have recently reformed and are back even stronger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-strutt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}