Classic Rock 240 - American Gods
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Classic Rock Magazine / Classic Rock issue 240 SEPTEMBER 2017
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God bless America! We're celebrating the best new offerings from the land of the free, plus some choice cuts with their hearts in the States.

01 SHAMAN'S HARVEST - The Come Up We begin our great American tour in Missouri, courtesy of strapping hard rockers Shaman's Harvest. A smokin', steely embodiment of muscular riffs, denim-clad soul and tattoos, The Come Up is a perfect taster for their new album Red Hands Black Deeds, showcasing the formula that has helped them share stages with big names including AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Cheap Trick and many more.
From Red Hands Black Deeds

02 BROKEN TEETH - Never Dead Belting out the mightiest, dirtiest guitar chops and bellowing 'I believe in Motörhead!' with a lairy gusto of which Lemmy himself would be proud, this Texan five-piece nod to one of Blighty's finest. However, the essential vibe of Never Dead is all Deep South bar brawls and whiskey-drenched floors. Grrrr...
From 4 On The Floor

03 JONNY LANG - Last Man Standing Next we head to California, by way of the Midwest (where Jonny Lang comes from), to catch the latest from this blues prodigy turned all-round rock'n'roll songsmith. Taken from his eighth album Signs, Last Man Standing is moodily propulsive and peppered with flashes of Lang's guitar virtuosity.
From Signs

04 MR. BIG - 1992 We remain in California (the ever rock'n'roll Los Angeles, to be precise) to check out this catchy • highlight from Messrs Gilbert, Sheehan, Martin and Torpey, taken from the band's new album Defying Gravity. There's some widdly guitar noodling from Paul Gilbert, of course, but essentially this is robust rock tuneage with a chorus the size of a horse.
From Defying Gravity

05 STEVE HILL - Dangerous One-man band Steve Hill is technically Canadian, but Dangerous is all US of A swagger. Hill performs standing up while singing and playing guitar, his feet playing bass drum, snare drum and hi-hats, with a drum stick fused to the head of his guitar... How the feck he does all that (and sounds, like, really good) we have no idea, but you should definitely check him out.
From Solo Recordings Volume 3

06 TRIGGERFINGER - Colossus Packing some sexy, fiercely tight riffage, heavy psych tints and primal distortion, Colossus fuses tastes of the Sunset Strip, Nashville and Atlanta into one cool-as-hell shot. It's pure Stateside strut - so much so that you'd never guess the band are actually from Belgium.
From Colossus

07 ACCEPT - Koolaid "Don't drink the Kool-Aid..." Actually, maybe do, if it's being offered by Accept, the most American-sounding thing to have come out of 70s/80s Germany, and proving that they're still very much alive and kicking on this track. Go on, give in to the pressure - it's delicious. There's some nice shrieking too.
From The Rise Of Chaos

08 SIMO - People Say People Say is bluesy Nashvillian JD Simo's funky, sassy nod to the likes of Isaac Hayes and Funkadelic. Also featuring plenty of 'rawk' guitar to get your teeth into, it's a superb showcase for the trio's new LP.
From Rise & Shine

09 FERAL SUN - Breathe This hard-rock foursome might come from London, but they sound like US radio stars, with the brooding, distorted strains of Breathe pointing flatteringly to the bands such as Alter Bridge and Stone Sour. Nice.
From Evacuate

10 WILLIE AND THE BANDITS - Scared Of The Sun The Joe Bonamassa-approved Willie Edwards and his colourful band of misfits mix mournfully bluesy guitar, atmospheric spaciness and a grungy, Pearl Jam-nodding chorus. It all sounds so beautifully Stateside that it almost seems a shame to discover they're actually from Devon.
From Steal

11 JARED JAMES NICHOLS - Last Chance Wisconsin gunslinger Nichols owes much of his bluesy soloing pizzazz to Stevie Ray Vaughan. But, as Last Chance proves, he's also one hell of a straight-up rocker. Boasting a gloriously massive riff and some oomphy all-American howling, it's a hearty feast of guitar-hero kudos and no-messing hard rock.
From Black Magic

12 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND* - Baby Got Gone Another Stevie Ray Vaughan-acolyte-plus-much-more, Louisiana's Kenny Wayne Shepherd gets his sass on with this sunny number from his latest album Lay lt On Down. One for nights of cheery southern hospitality and warm summers on rugged ranches.
From Lay lt On Down

13 QUIET RIOT - Freak Flag It's back up to Los Angeles now for some emotional Sunset Strip nostalgia (albeit delivered with a thoroughly modern edge), all served up with love, screaming and hairspray by heavy metal noiseniks Quiet Riot. Tune in, get your freak on, party hard and so on.
From Road Rage

14 THRESHOLD - Small Dark Lines We'll leave you with a machine-gun shot of slick, hooky progressive metal. Geographically they might be from Surrey, but musically their hearts are in Boston and California (think Dream Theater getting jiggy with Metallica), and Small Dark Lines is one of the most driven things we've heard all month. It'd make one hell of a gym Soundtrack.
From Legends Of The Shires

* Auf CD und im Heft mit Kenny Wayne Shepherd angegeben.