Good name...good cover, showing singer Betsy posing like some Page Three model. I'm looking at the titles, 'Do You Wanna Rock', 'Hot & Heavy', 'Head Banger', Turns Me On', ooohh...and 'Skullcrusher', sounds like It'll be an in your face metal bonanza.
Released by Metal Blade Records, Bitch play pretty standard metal, but hey, what do you expect with those titles ? Admittedly, I'm rather charmed by the album, maybe it's Betsy's slightly off-key wails, and of course that album cover which would have enticed many a young metal head, but the good thing with Bitch is that they actually do rock. So many female fronted acts of the '80s tended to blurt out rather soft metal, but Bitch attempt to gallop along, and the backwards record effect of 'Hot & Heavy' may well have had a few naive metallers scrambling for their crucifix, in fact it's a pretty decent metal anthem. Dingy, fantasy-driven, abit like watching 'Sword & The Sorcerer', and that's where this album aims, at the testicles of every young metalhead in his room illuminated by the glow of candles and leered at by those sullen sockets of plastic skulls.
There's a lot of standard metal around, and a lot of it actually works by being just that. You only have to look at the muscular frame of the pretty boys behind Betsy and check out those hairy chests, to realise that Bitch are gonna be fun. The more I glare at that cover the more I'm entranced by Betsy's qualities, of course, it could be her half-nakedness causing the stir, but enough of that, let's think of metal and not her petal...
6.5/10
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