{"id":6884,"date":"2001-08-16T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2001-08-16T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2013-06-01T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:35:15","slug":"album-review-beautiful-creatures-beautiful-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-beautiful-creatures-beautiful-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTIFUL CREATURES – Beautiful Creatures (2001) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Beautiful Creatures<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWarner Bros. (2001)<\/span>
Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I was introduced to this mighty band by the infectious chorus of \u2018Wasted\u2019, and since then have been wondering why these guys aren\u2019t massive? Maybe they were a decade or so too late? But even so, any band that features the vocal talents of Bang Tango\u2019s Joe Lest\u00e9 and guitar hero DJ Ashba (Guns N\u2019 Roses \/ Sixx:A.M. \/ ex-BulletBoys) deserves recognition, and just one spin of this disc will leave you salivating, because this is glam \/ sleaze rock \u2019n\u2019 roll that literally pounds the speakers.<\/p>\n

While Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 latest album, Chinese Democracy<\/em><\/a> (2008), continues to sell, Beautiful Creatures\u2019 debut flounders somewhere in the bargain bins, echoing the fate of similar great yet ignored bands, such as Love\/Hate from the early 90s.<\/p>\n

This really is an explosive record, a rough \u2019n\u2019 ready monstrosity led by enormous grooves and Lest\u00e9\u2019s hearty rasp and choppy raps which drag metal into the 21st century, yet with no apparent response. Maybe the various line-up changes and band members\u2019 other commitments have thrown a spanner in the works, but all the while Beautiful Creatures\u2019 two albums (the second being 2005\u2019s Deuce<\/em><\/a>) are out there, you must<\/em> lend an ear.<\/p>\n

Every one of the twelve tracks on offer is a killer, from the opener \u20181 A.M\u2019, with its snarling guitar and Joe\u2019s throaty rasp and an immense chorus, to the pummelling glam stomp of \u2018Kickin\u2019 For Days\u2019, with its M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a> shake, and the ferocious \u2018Step Back\u2019, in which drummer Glen Sobel\u2019s drums shine as they clatter like a thunder horse. Hard to pick out a fave track, but \u2018Wasted\u2019 really is a gem of a glam rock anthem with those uplifting guitars that are cut in half by Joe\u2019s gravel growl leading to that immortal chorus.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an album that leaves me speechless, and yet also frustrated at its lack of success, but isn\u2019t that nearly always the case with a majority of the coolest bands?<\/p>\n

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

BEAUTIFUL CREATURESBeautiful Creatures Warner Bros. (2001)Rating: 9.5\/10 I was introduced to this mighty band by the infectious chorus of \u2018Wasted\u2019, and since then have been wondering why these guys aren\u2019t massive? Maybe they were a decade or so too late? But even so, any band that features the vocal talents of Bang Tango\u2019s Joe Lest\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beautiful-creatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","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=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}