{"id":68453,"date":"2018-04-20T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=68453"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T11:22:23","slug":"album-review-bullet-dust-to-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-bullet-dust-to-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLET – Dust To Gold (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BULLET
Dust To Gold<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSteamhammer (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I find myself more and more attracted to traditional metal versus, well, most of what I\u2019m hearing nowadays. Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch get lost on me. Avenged Sevenfold, I just don\u2019t get. But when I listen to new music by the likes of Sacred Leather, Thrust, Lechery and now Bullet, this makes sense to me.<\/p>\n

Dust To Gold<\/em>, Bullet\u2019s new record, is downright phenomenal, and track two, \u2018Ain\u2019t Enough\u2019, is up there for best song of the year, right next to \u2018Sorceress\u2019 by Thrust or \u2018Ultimate Force\u2019 by Sacred Leather. It\u2019s that damn good, and to say it rocks is a complete understatement. <\/p>\n

Bullet is straight up, ass kicking rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Dust To Gold<\/em> is equal parts hard rock and metal cranked to 11. Denim and leather, spikes and studs, Bullet\u2019s sound is stripped down, no frills rock, equal parts Judas Priest, Saxon, Mot\u00f6rhead and Accept, and that\u2019s just the tip of the musical iceberg. If you\u2019re not familiar with Bullet, you better get at it because they\u2019re among the best at what they do and with each record they release, they just get better. <\/p>\n

Bullet hails from Sweden, knows metal better than most veteran bands from back in the day, and have six full-length records and an EP out. And not a bum disc in the bunch either folks. With titles like \u2018Bang Your Head\u2019, \u2018Leather Love\u2019 and \u2018Heavy Metal Highway\u2019 rockin\u2019 is their business and business is (damn) good. You can find those gems on their 2003 Speeding In The Night<\/em> EP \u2013 just a little plug for their back catalogue, rivet heads.<\/p>\n

Dust To Gold<\/em> never lets up and never disappoints. \u2018Speed And Attack\u2019 starts the record off proper with a serious nod to early Accept, and is something you can play sandwiched between \u2018Restless And Wild\u2019 and \u2018Fast As A Shark\u2019. Meanwhile, picking up where the aforementioned \u2018Ain\u2019t Enough\u2019 leaves off, is the rocker \u2018Rogue Soldier\u2019 which is pure metal mayhem.<\/p>\n

Describing this record is easy. It\u2019s max riffage and max volume, best exemplified by the back-to-back dose of \u2018Fuel The Fire\u2019 and \u2018One More Round\u2019… just a ten ton wrecking ball of grass roots heavy metal. <\/p>\n

Bullet is a welcome return to the classic metal sound before it splintered off into a thousand sub genres and disappeared into a haze of Aqua Net and spandex in the mid-to-late 80s. The band\u2019s music is reminiscent of a time when battle vests actually stood for something, not the fashion statement they\u2019ve become now. Dust To Gold<\/em> takes you back to a period of time when metal was feared and respected, when this sound was a death knell to posers. Amps, guitars, riffs, leather, and a fist held high. That\u2019s Dust To Gold<\/em>. That\u2019s Bullet. And that\u2019s why this ass kicking is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n

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

BULLETDust To Gold Steamhammer (2018)Rating: 10\/10 I find myself more and more attracted to traditional metal versus, well, most of what I\u2019m hearing nowadays. Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch get lost on me. Avenged Sevenfold, I just don\u2019t get. But when I listen to new music by the likes of Sacred Leather, Thrust, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-bullet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68453","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=68453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68455,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68453\/revisions\/68455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}