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An energetic and feisty dosage of straight-to-the-strings electric jangle of protopunkesque garage rock. Fans of the tunes emitting from garages, basements and warehouses everywhere back in the 60s (and then in the 70s when those who continued the punk rock groundwork were cranking 'em out) will likely be fans of this. If you have any rock comp in your CD collection with the words "Garage Rock" on it, then this disc is apt to end up right next to those, along with all your Troggs, Paul Revere, Stooges, Chocolate Watchband and Standells CDs. Straight punked up (pre-old school old school!) tunes to throw you back into the era before punk was punk when it was just egalitarian rock - rock for anybody, by anybody, before proto-punk became punk and punk became a "style" and it strangled on its own self-consciousness.
Yay, Metal Mind and Roadrunner. Three re-releases (which you can nab by way of Music Video Distributors) continue recent jaunts into the realm of vintage German power metal/hard rock. Here we have the works of Mad Max represented on a re-issue of the band's first three albums: "Mad Max", "Rollin' Thunder" and "Stormchild." Sound-wise, you know what to expect. I can't say Mad Max broke the mold, but if you like 80s-style hard rock/metal (that doesn't go to the pop cheese excess of the likes of, say, American pop choppers Poison) but drives right down the middle of this still cult-beloved genre, and, further, if you want to delve into unexplored corners - then this is another chance. MVD has been making available a number of fringe acts from back in the era and this is one of those batches. Germany, though it might not have gotten as much press once you strayed away from The Scorpions, et. al., was certainly a purveyor of metal. Still is. Europe has stayed more faithful to its classic metal styles (while still evolving) than has the States. But, hey, we ain't talking about today's stuff. We're groovin' on the old school, and Mad Max is that. These guys know and love the genre and knock a line drive cranking out their own dose of it. Mondo melodies, sweet guitar licks, rockin' rhythm sections and soaring tenors all align for a dose of the kind of stuff I used to dig on when I first got into metal in the late 80s (yeah, for my age, I was kind of late getting on this bandwagon, but get on it, I did). Are there better bands from the era/genre doing this kind of stuff? Yea, but you've heard them. Time for something new (sort of, ha ha). Check these guys out. Further your classic metal education.
OK, so this book was put out AFTER Greg Shaw's death. So he didn't COMPILE it. So what. He still wrote most of the wonderful stuff in here. Shaw was king of the rock-n-roll fanzine. At least A king. I don't mean to suggest that he was the one and only royalty of the scene; he wasn't. But, damn, read this stuff and you'll agree his fanzine work deserves to land in the rock writing pantheon.
Shaw wrote a number of fanzines (not all strictly about rock) and they all demonstrated his eclectic knowledge, his thorough understanding of the rock scene (even if his opinions were sometimes a tad rigid and fundamentalist aesthetically), his intelligence - and the scope, man, the scope!
Sokrovenno, an Italian black metal outfit, is attached to Bleak Art Records, a fairly young label (about ten releases so far). New customers are always interesting, for they always bring about diversity: new bands, obviously, and with a bit of luck some variety in genres, influences, geographical origin and whatever might appeal to the underground fanatic.