Friday 8 April 2011

Railway - Heavy Metal Fever (1984)

Now, we all know that there's nothing better than having heavy metal fever and the mundanely named Railway have got it. Don't be put off by the name although I often wonder how old the child is who designs these type of album covers! There's a strong AC/DC influence here, as you'd expect in probbaly 50% of metal bands from that era, but there's also some solid, fuzzy guitars and some cracking upbeat rockers with equally rockin' titles - 'Screamin After Midnight', 'Out To Kill', 'Hell Soldiers' all pack a fair punch. I guess a modern version of these guys would be a band like Young Heart Attack, because it's pumping metal that just goes for the throat, no holds barred in its ferocity and lethal in its clawed swipe. Hell yeah.

7/10

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