{"id":6893,"date":"2004-03-09T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:17:36","slug":"album-review-brides-of-destruction-here-come-the-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-brides-of-destruction-here-come-the-brides\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION – Here Come The Brides (2004) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION
Here Come The Brides<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nSanctuary (2004)<\/span>
Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Although Here Come The Brides<\/em> sold 13,000 copies in its first week of release in 2004, this cult offering did little to dent the heavy metal market, despite the fact it remains one of my favourite metal albums of all time. Brides Of Destruction were formed in 2002 \u2013 originally under the moniker of Cockstar \u2013 by M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce<\/a> bassist Nikki Sixx, and features the talents of L.A. Guns founder Tracii Guns.<\/p>\n

As debut albums go this is a riotous affair that blends a heavy sleaze style of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, as one would expect, with a punky, garage style groove, made all the more raw by the vocal rasp of London LeGrande \u2013 although drummer Scot Coogan lends his pipes to the rousing \u2018Life\u2019.<\/p>\n

When Nikki Sixx first formed the band, there were rumours that rock stars ranging from Slash (Velvet Revolver \/ ex-Guns N\u2019 Roses \/ ex-Slash\u2019s Snakespit), DJ Ashba (Guns N\u2019 Roses \/ Sixx:A.M. \/ ex-Beautiful Creatures \/ ex-BulletBoys) and John Corabi (ex-M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce) were in on the project, yet none of these materialised, but that doesn\u2019t prevent Here Come The Brides<\/em> from being a superb record; an opus that sits nicely alongside Beautiful Creatures\u2019 self-titled debut<\/a> as one of those majestic yet gloriously rebellious and real metal albums.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Shut The Fuck Up\u2019 is a frenzied affair, although LeGrande at times can appear too fragile in the mix, but the band\u2019s songwriting ability is plain to see, as all of these cuts are far too oily to appear on any modern M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce record.<\/p>\n

\u2018Natural Born Killers\u2019 and \u2018Brace Yourself\u2019 are in-your-face rockers, while \u2018Only Get So Far\u2019 is a heartbreaking ballad in complete contradiction to the grunge-laced \u2018I Got A Gun\u2019 and punkoid \u2018I Don\u2019t Care\u2019.<\/p>\n

Nine songs were clearly not enough, but in a sense the short running time gives the record a compact and concise feel. Nothing drags, meaning that Here Come The Brides<\/em> is a short, sharp and sweet shock to the system. It\u2019s just a huge shame that Nikki Sixx left the band soon after the album\u2019s release, leaving the rest to produce the below par follow-up Runaway Brides<\/em> (2005).<\/p>\n

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

BRIDES OF DESTRUCTIONHere Come The Brides Sanctuary (2004)Rating: 9.5\/10 Although Here Come The Brides sold 13,000 copies in its first week of release in 2004, this cult offering did little to dent the heavy metal market, despite the fact it remains one of my favourite metal albums of all time. Brides Of Destruction were formed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-brides-of-destruction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","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=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11940,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/11940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}