Classic Rock 198 - Monster Mash!
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15 city-flattening top-drawer tracks

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Classic Rock Magazine / Classic Rock issue 198 JULY 2014
TEAM ROCK

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Monster Mash: 15 city-flattening top-drawer tracks from California Breed, Bigelf, Magnum, Pixies, Down, Lionize, Marc Ford and many more...

01 LIONIZE – Reality Check You want funky? We'll l give you funky. In a groovy, hard-rocking package? Of course. Maryland's premier reggae-rock exports - and pals of Clutch - have cranked their game up to 11 with their fifth studio album, and this single offers a highly moreish first taste.
Taken from: Jetpack Soundtrack

02 CALIFORNIA BREED - The Way Black Country Communion might be no more, but Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham are still together, and they've brought in 23-year-old singer/axe-wielder Andrew Watt into their new band. The result is classic-sounding, propulsive, transatlantic hard rock.
Taken from: California Breed

03 MAGNUM - Too Many Clowns Can you ever have too many clowns? Not of the Magnum sort, if this track is anything to go by. The Brummies have upped the 'rawk' riff ante for album number 18, and it's paid off. Melodic and sophisticated, but with added distorted grip, it bodes well for the full album from whence it came.
Taken from: Escape From The Shadow Garden

04 CIRCA ZERO - Levitation Andy Summers's post-Police life is looking peachy with his new band Circa Zero, along with singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rob Giles. Complete with decidedly Police-esque guitar lines, Levitation has a stylish, electronic spring in its step, steely-eyed verses and a singalong chorus.
Taken from: Circus Hero

05 MARC FORD - Turquoise Blue And now for something really pretty - from the dulcet-toned voice of the one-time guitarist with The Black Crowes. Turquoise Blue's warm, countrified waves of acoustically led, soulful bluesy rock will lull you into a heady, leisurely state. In a very good way.
Taken from: Holy Ghost

06 SONTAAG - Spaceshifter Get spacey, 'surrender to the void' and channel your intergalactic space rocker with Sontaag and this track from their conceptual debut. Think punchy, Floydian rock'n'roll, hurtled round Mars, via War Of The Worlds and a whole lotta synths, several times. Nice.
Taken from: Sontaag

07 THE AFGHAN WHIGS – The Lottery They emerged amid late-80s/90s grunge rock, they sank in 2001, and now the Cincinnati troupe rise again with their first studio album in 16 years. It's a deep, brooding comeback, but with a lightness of touch that stops the likes of The Lottery growing stodgy. Stirring, gazing-thoughtfully-out-of-windows stuff.
Taken from: Do To The Beast

08 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Fields Of Unforgiveness Vegetarians beware: this is carnivore rock if we ever heard it. Guitarist/vocalist Zakk Wylde knows his strengths, and here he channels them to stoner-infused heavy rock effect and spices it up with flashes of shrieking fretwork.
Taken from: Catacombs Of The Black Vatican

09 THE PEOPLE, THE POET - People Part sun-soaked folk, part pensive alt.rock, this Welsh group spent the best part of three years carving out their debut album, which stems thematically from stories sent in by fans. People's gravelly soul meets colourful touches and breezy, sway-along strumming for a heartfelt, eye-fluttering result. Splendid.
Taken from: The Narrator

10 NAZARETH - Back2B4 If their latest album is to be founding vocalist Dan McCafferty's last hurrah with Nazareth, he can retire with pride. It's amazing to think these Scottish rockers began in 1968 -Back2B4 might be prettily nostalgic, but it evokes the fresh zeal of a much younger band. Bloody lovely.
Taken from: Rock ‘N’ Roll Telephone

11 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - The Soundmaker With some flaming fretwork, the Mexican duo have spent more than a decade defying laws of speed and hand-eye co-ordination with two acoustic guitars, making sweet flamenco-meets-rock music in the process. And they're still going strong, as this sizzling number affirms.
Taken from: 9 Dead Alive

12 ELECTRIC RIVER - The Fixer It's little wonder these guys look up to The Clash. It's also little wonder they've called their self-funded debut album Faith & Patience -the urgency in Will Whisson's vocals, combined with considered tunecraft, suggest a lot of faith and patience went into this. Punk sensibilities lend the warming fuzzed rock a sharpened edge - political, not pompous.
Taken from: The Faith & Patience

13 DOWN - We Knew Him Well Phwoar. This combination of Phil Anselmo (ex-Pantera), Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity) and other similarly powerful personnel do not fuck around. Stoner-paced, heavy metal rock'n'roll is the order of the day here. It's beefy, it's crunchy - prepare to be seduced and have your face punched.
Taken from: Down IV Part II

14 PIXIES - Indie Cindy Who'd have thought it? After 23 years of sporadic reunions and speculation, we actually have a brand new Pixies album. Minus bassist Kim Deal. Happily, however, they’ve generated some hard-edged panache - evocative of their early-90s heyday - plus extra rock weight.
Taken from: Indie Cindy

15 BIGELF - Alien Frequency Biting progressive rock from LA, äs our favourite large mythological types hit album number four. New addition Mike Portnoy might have the drumming power of a small tank, but it's used to super effect here, complementing metallic, gently macabre layers of psych-rocking cool.
Taken from: Into The Maelstrom