Blackout - Evil Game (1984)

These guys must be hard, they've got a song called 'Motorcycle Bitch'! This is dense Euro metal that needs to be played at full volume. I'm loving the angry vocal attack of Bas Van Sloten and the almost murky guitar sound of Hofman and Van Oosten. I know little about these guys and I'm glad, because there's nothing here to cloud judgement, just slip the wax on, drop the needle and hear the thunder roar. This is brutish metal force fed to you as ten hard-edged tracks. The colossal chug of the title cut really gets into the veins, and the dirty groove makes itself known again on the screaming 'Motorcycle Bitch' which drowns in more oil than any Saxon album could. Vocally this track is slightly more subtle and almost sleazy and there's the full-throttle attack of the barbaric 'Ice Age Hunter.' This is a superb little album summed up by the rusty groove of 'Bleeding Moon.' The Netherlands should be proud because this rocks... 8/10