{"id":3471,"date":"1984-03-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"1984-03-01T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:04:17","slug":"album-review-hellion-dangerous-maneuvers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-hellion-dangerous-maneuvers\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLION – Dangerous Maneuvers (1984) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

HELLION
Dangerous Maneuvers<\/strong><\/span>
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\nStampede (1984)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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No, not that over-hyped L.A. band, this Hellion hail from New York.<\/p>\n

The opening two numbers on Hellion\u2019s debut album, \u2018The Pump\u2019 and \u2018Ain\u2019t No Hesitating\u2019, are more like commercial pop than the high-energy rock that the biog proclaims this band to be. As for the rest of the album, well, with a couple of exceptions it\u2019s all fairly pedestrian hard rock, lacking that killer punch to put them up alongside with the best. I\u2019ve no doubt songs like \u2018In Need Of Love\u2019 and \u2018Rock Your Rocks\u2019 go down a storm live, but on vinyl I\u2019m afraid they sound pretty lame.<\/p>\n

The two best cuts on the album, \u2018Hellion\u2019 and the almost excellent \u2018One Way Or Another\u2019, were both released on a single late last year, which suggests that maybe the band should have resisted the temptation to release a full length album until they had more equally as strong material. Still, let\u2019s hope for better things from Hellion next time around.<\/p>\n

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

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 4 (1984)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HELLIONDangerous Maneuvers Stampede (1984)Rating: 5\/10 No, not that over-hyped L.A. band, this Hellion hail from New York. The opening two numbers on Hellion\u2019s debut album, \u2018The Pump\u2019 and \u2018Ain\u2019t No Hesitating\u2019, are more like commercial pop than the high-energy rock that the biog proclaims this band to be. As for the rest of the album, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-hellion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","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=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11910,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}