Back with their third studio album, Phil Campbell (guitars) and his sons Todd (guitars), Tyla (bass), and Dane (drums) have welcomed in new singer Joel Peters and it sounds as if he has always been there. When one was the right-hand man for more than three decades of one of the most important people ever involved with music, then Campbell was always going to find it relatively easy to get a record deal. But with his sons he keeps proving he is earning everything he gets, and this album just rocks right out of the box. There is an underlying blues groove to much of this, combined with good old-fashioned rock and roll and then in comes the metal and the swagger and the listener soon realises that what we have here is The Faces being morphed into a metal act for today.

“Strike The Match” is the Seventies for a new generation, while “Schizophrenia” is full of pace and a tongue in cheek approach which demands listeners to sing along. The title track is a chugger with a filthy groove, and is one of the closest to traditional Motörhead, but given Phil was there for 32 years it is not surprising that some of those influences come through here and then. The important thing to realise is that this is not a vanity project for Phil to be able to spend some time with his kids, but is a very serious outfit indeed and it more than stands on its own two feet. There will be some people coming to this who didn’t grow up with Lemmy, or really be sure what Phil’s previous band was all about, but they will understand this. This is a bloody good album which anyone into hard rock and metal will surely enjoy, I did, and if he keeps producing material like this then Phil will be building a new legacy alongside the old one.

Rating: 9/10

Links:
https://www.philcampbell.net/
https://www.nuclearblast.com/